What’s Going On?

Posted by zot on September 27th, 2008 filed in Mapping, P2P, Plexus, TEAM CTHULHU

During the week of the TEAM CTHULHU summit (Fur came to Zot’s house for a week) and the week after, we have been hard at work “turd polishing,” getting Plexus ready for the first “extended beta” release.  We’re VERY excited about that, but more on that when it’s ready .  If you want to be more up-to-date, tune in to our repository log and you can check out our rapidly changing todo list/project plan, which is in our repository wiki.  We use TiddlyWiki for our project wiki.  Jeremy Ruston wrote it and he’s awesome.  The wiki lives in our project repository in a single web page, so you can see it change with the versions .  There are some items that seem appropriate to me to put in our repository wiki, rather than on plubble for one reason or another, so I’ll just put a pointer to them here.

Here is a post about our new implementation of mobile code, which allows you to attach Groovy scripts and libraries to your maps.  It’s more than that though.  Check it out if you are interested in leveraging the potential of peer-to-peer networking…

And here is a post of our old philosophy document from the p2pmud project.  This is here because Plexus continues with the same philosophy.  P2PMud was our 2D, dynamic HTML, peer-to-peer MUD.  It was a neat MUD — it lived in a single web page (using some code from tiddlywiki) and used AJAX to communicate with other peoples’ MUDS in their browsers.  Anyway, Plexus is more-or-less an extension of that, which was an extension of other projects, leading back to the first MUD we wrote in September of 1988.

If you want to comment on these two, please put your comments here, even though the posts are in the repository wiki!

September of 1988?  Oops, did I just let the cat out of the bag?  This release will indeed be TEAM CTHULHU’s 20th anniversary release!

Happy 20th anniversary TEAM CTHULHU!