Blogging from the site directly
Someone brought to my attention that it might be desirable to be able to post blog entries from the slbuzz.com web site directly. Makes sense, of course, and so that's what I'm working on. Should be ready to go in a few minutes.
The question now is just how crossposting should be handled in this case. I'll have to mull over that for a bit. Any suggestions are welcome!
Thanks,
Mark
Posted by Second Life resident Mark Barrett.
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Messaging and Contacts
I added messaging and the notion of contacts to to SLBuzz. You add anyone you want to your contact list, at some point I'll probably add some access levels like Friend of Family or something like that. Hey, if it's good enough for flickr, it's good enough for slbuzz, right?
Another small update or three, and then it's time for a refactoring cycle again. Or in plain english: rather than adding features, i'll improve the stuff behind the scenes and fix bugs without introducing new end-user (that's you) functionality.
Posted by Second Life resident Mark Barrett. Visit Dirty.
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introducing metaverse developer (.com)
Not sure if that's really all that accurate. It's not like I am creating a metaverse, but I hope to at least be contributing towards it.
So I grabbed the metaversedeveloper.com domain a few days ago. It's not all set up yet and pointing at the right place, but since I'm too tired to think about implementing anything spectacularly complex I'd just throw together some stuff to get rid of the WordPress newbie look.
There's still a bunch of stuff to tweak and figure out, but 6:00am is pushing it. Good night.
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Web-IM fixed
One of the scripts didn't respond. Not sure what happened there, maybe a sim restart left the script unresponsive. Unfortunately my side of the logic had a flaw that it wouldn't let the message get past the 'broken script'. Normally, when a message server is no longer available, it's marked as deleted and another xml-rpc call to the next message server is placed. In this case, the error message didn't trigger deletion, but the message server was also not marked as having been accessed. That caused the hangup. Anyway, all techno babble aside, everything's good, and what was good is even better now.
Posted by Second Life resident Mark Barrett. Visit Braunworth.
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XML-RPC issues! Web-IM down.
There's something fishy going on, I'm not quite sure it's on my end. The Web IM feature on profiles (only visible if you're logged in) isn't functioning right now. Luckily that's the only component that relies on XML-RPC. I'm getting timeout errors, and I believe this is happening since the last grid update. I'll try to bang on it and see what falls off.
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