It has been quite long since I have posted here. It has also taken a lot of courage and a lot of beer to actually encourage me to write something. Blessed be the brewery. Whatever.
For those who care, the esro project is still up and running. In short - we have switched to different board software, removed that fugly front page - update: it is up again, god damn it! - and had npcdoom working round a clock to provide you bastards with your drug of choice (silkroad). He has worked really hard, so you can expect another stage of in-house beta test soon. By now, he has nearly everything from to-do (and to-fix) working. Previous few sentences are maybe a little exaggerated. A little. Lets not give up our hopes, he is the god of abyss.
Project status updates
Yeah, all my previous projects are in the nearly same state as they were in by the start of year 2010. I have learnt some new and rather interesting stuff but nothing much. I have also switched from windows to linux platform - this leading to termination of my 'silkroad' requiring projects (good bye dungeons...) - at least until I find myself in mood to work on them.
Also, some week ago, my vacation started. Not that it actually matters. Only that I have to find some work for myself. Paid one, preferably. Although I have most probably found one, the project involved leads to some web-service stuff...meaning some php or java. I am not very fond of java and the too-much-mvc approach people like nowdays. I quit working with php few years ago, only to write in C/C++ (which I have done for past years quite successfully)...
We would like to have crest server before public beta test. After few nights of thinking, I have abandoned the original idea of 'super optimized' server written in C. I have done that because I would have to implement the 'http' or 'ftp' (even worse) layer. I have also abandoned the idea of lighttpd or apache2.x module simply because of the security and development trouble. All of this brought me to an idea 'why not simply use the lighttpd or apache, memory mapping and simple tar archive' with kinda same and rather
Whatever...
