So, Rails burned me for the last time and I had to ditch it. Too much time trying maintain the thing. I have been playing around with Joomla and Wordpress but I don’t know. I’m not really happy with either, though Wordpress 2.5 is a nice update. I guess I am going to have to write my own thing in PHP. Stupid Rails. I really wish it worked. Ruby makes me happy but Rails is retarded. Now I just need to figure out how to move all the old content over. Bleh!
I updated the Dark Skin for the final 1.20 release. You can find it here.
I got nominated for Best Code Contribution award by Linden Lab. Not that I think I’ll win it or anything, lots of greater work in there then mine, but still, nice to be noticed for kicking the can 
So after muddling around with the opensim code on my trusty server here at the lab I decided it was time to hook the sucker up to the osgrid and see what happened. Slightly bumpy road but read on if you care.
The bumps in road were caused mostly by my forgetting I am dealing with windows heads here and pushing out of my head years ago how that wicked tech called the ini file worked. Mostly I had stuff in the wrong sections. Why the hell are there sections? Would a comment not suffice? I dont know how that thinking survives frankly, but nonetheless, this is not a rant about the M$ view, but rather accolades for the opensim work.
I stuck a single sim on the grid, called Xanth at 10001,10002. Delighful! It works pretty well. TP’s are kinda flaky and I have yet to have someone drop by, but so far it looks good, seems stable, and best of all no one has complained. The only trouble is the stupid jpeg code for the map generating does not want to work. I rebuilt the .so and all. I don’t know.
Anyway, here’s a shot. You can see the next sim off in the distance and that wee gash of black pixels on the dock is me in all my noobish glory.
Don’t you love working with undocumented code? LLSD in this case. It’s giving me flashbacks and not the good kind. Linden Lysergic acid Diethylamide.