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01.17.09Geeky Goodness: Virtual Worlds, Scaling, Scrum, Ogre, and SecurityI'm not a geek. I don't understand agile development, other than I think the word sounds cool and who wouldn't want to be agile? My response to the term 'scaling' is typically along the lines of "well, can't you just buy more machines or something?". OK, so now that I've established my geek credentials, I'm going to share a bunch of coding links because maybe someone will comment on whether this stuff is relevant or not. Scaling Virtual Worlds Jim Waldo posts on the experiences with Sun Microsystem's Project Darkstar and how to address issues of scaling virtual worlds. His main point ...
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01.07.09RealXtend Goes BottyA bit of an oldie, but with all the bot talk these days thought it was worth posting.
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06.08.08Cracks in the Open, Source of Frustration for OpenSim?OpenSim is open source - a reverse engineer of the Second Life platform, and while the idea is to let others build on the source, there's also an expectation that there's a quid pro quo at play. That's the point of open source afterall - do what you want with it, but give something back, it's a community afterall. RealXtend, which has received a lot of play over at OS promoters like UgoTrade, may not be giving back what it takes according to Justin Clark-Casey: Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, the amount of code OpenSim has received from realXtend so ...
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04.05.08Is the Metaverse Less Real if Madison Avenue Says It Ain’t? (Report from the Virtual Worlds Conference)The Virtual World Conference was a sort of giddy hallucination for me, never having been before, and maybe I'm LUCKY (based on other reports) that it's a bit more somber and less gushing than past events. Everything feels a bit more gray these days, constant drizzle in New York (gave me a cold) and all these "bad vibes man" coming from Wall Street and Main Street and CNN, but for me it was a thrill to see the Lindens, and Philip, who was looking well barbered and tanned in his Neko collar and visionary vision, all the Californians seemed to ...
recent posts
- Welcome to SLAMsterdam: Second Life Creates Silos of Sin, Goal is to be More Real
- Virtual Concert Gets a Critique of Sorts
- Virtual Learning Environments at Athabasca University
- Insights from Engage Expo: Virtual World Goods, Kids, and Monetizing Mom
- Accounting for Human Nature: Anthropology, Academia and Virtual Worlds
- Quick Quote: Philipism
- Major Media Gets Glow in Second Life
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