The Bridge
April 23rd, 2008
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I’m porting The Bridge over to Rails from PHP. Ruby is intriguing. What’s the Bridge? Basically it’s a link between any object in SL and the web. Simple huh? Not really. SL’s XML_RPC is a bit of a dog and not so reliable, but, I have the code already working in PHP so it’s a good exercise.
Basically The Bridge is way for SL object’s to carry on communications with the outside world. It’s not necessarily relegated to the web but that is a convenient way to deal with it. Via the PHP system, I have…
- Traffic logs with avi links
- Sale history with avi links
- Land media control
- Signage control
- IM in and out
So I’m moving all that over to here and Rails. Ruby finally caught my eye. It’s as powerful as Perl but not as ugly. Python, I am sorry but fear not, the jury is still out. And for PHP, I never really loved you!