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Just a general news blurb to say happy new years 🙂 Might as well use this space to say something psuedo interesting, as 99% of the hits on this page will either be for software or artices. After the beating … Continue reading →

All PHP using an sql database, zing me an email at erik@smluc.org if you find any oopses

I submitted this one to FreshMeat and LGDC. linuxgames.com and flipcode.com picked it up, too. Took quite a beating on freshmeat, I think I’m going to take a break from the article writing for a bit.

Due to some unforseen occurances, the mailing list and CVS repository are no longer available. When I manage to work on bmud some more, I will look for a new host for the list and cvs root (possibly sourceforge). Sorry … Continue reading →

Finding translators is tough. This is my attempt to get some more translations happening by making translating easier. The perl CGI scripts handle all the details in importing, exporting, and formatting the GNU gettext .PO files, and can display a … Continue reading →

autoconf/automake cleaned up a lot, internationalization, random seed now uses pid AND time, work on making it more robust, compiles clean on fbsd, sunos, solaris, and AIX

There’s an oops on line 10 of bmud-0.5/Makefile.am. The line reads PIXMAPDIR = ${datadir}pixmaps it should read PIXMAPDIR = ${datadir}/pixmaps If you’ve already installed it, you now have PREFIX/sharepixmaps/bmud.png and it should be PREFIX/share/pixmaps/bmud.png, just cp or mv the file … Continue reading →

This is mostly a stepping stone release, I think. Here’s the changes Aliases (thanks Dan Tenner) New networking code (thanks Robert Hansen) Internationalization/localization (I think…) New preferences dialog Lots of fixes for compatability with muds, like the is appended as … Continue reading →

Happy new years 🙂 I slapped together another poll, and I feel obligated to give a little background on why this certain topic is being broached… Right now, I have two header files to seperate the gnome stuff from the … Continue reading →

New mailing lists are in place, on a machine I control this time. To subcribe, simple mail bmud-request@mail.dynsol.net with ‘subscribe’ in the body, or do this at the command line:echo “subscribe” | mail -s “” bmud-request@mail.dynsol.net Hopefully this mailing list … Continue reading →