The ideas and software design for Effluency 2.0 are coming together.
Effluency 2.0 will use a site framework dubbed Crucible, which will consist of areas, where each area will consist of a specific kind of communication medium. Areas will include such media as: user profiles, blogs, discussion forums, chat, private studios (for fiction writing, digital […]

One of my goals with my web services API is performance. I want quick turnaround times. Therefore, I decided to eschew the heavily-laden XML formats with something much more concise. However, writing the parser to handle all the data types I want to handle was simply too much effort.
There was one shining […]

As I work on the Dice Server, I’m also building a Web Services API to take advantage of the Web 2.0 / Ajax / Buzzword Soup tech that is available. Of course, I feel the need to roll my own; I hate using technology that I haven’t worked on. If I have to […]

I’ve been working on the new Dice Server architecture. To that end, and as part of a system-wide project to convert my Perl code to Ruby code and to convert all my text-based database files to actual database tables and records c/o mySQL, I can now boast the following:

RandomSvce_Seeds
Database table containing the 32 seeds […]

(or: A Tale From The Back Side)
(Note: this post is cross-posted from the Barscape forum. FW = FeldWife and mF = miniFeld, my son)
On June 7th, 2007, I was ravaged by a bout of colitis which required a trip to the Winchester Hospital Emergency Room.
It started at 3:30am when I woke up […]