marcus welz

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.

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.

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.

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.

Posted by Second Life resident Mark Barrett. Visit Dirty.

Events are Live!

So glad. There were a number of smaller features that I had been chiseling away at. For instance, if you look at a snapshot, you can see other snapshots that are nearby. In addition to that, you can now also see which direction they're in (e.g. north west, south, etc.).
The new blog crossposting setup is implemented. You can now set up multiple accounts to crosspost to. Right now it's still pretty much just WordPress, but that covers a fair amount of users. Other blog types are in the works.
And the big new feature is Events! With this feature, you can create more flexible events than with the built-in Second Life ones. Events can span multiple days, so events like Burning Man, SLCC, and other larger events can be captured. There will be more changes coming to that in the future that will allow for some really neat features. Enjoy!

Posted by Second Life resident Mark Barrett. Visit Dirty.