Projects
These are the various things I spend most of my online free time doing. Listed here in no particular order.
Open Cities Complete is a game modification for Oblivion which transfers the cities of Bruma, Cheydinhal, Bravil, Leyawiin, Skingrad, Chorrol, and Anvil from their original locations out into the Tamriel worldspaces. Sounds like a mouthful, but it basically means that when playing Oblivion one no longer needs to stop and wait while the city loads before entering. One simply walks in from the wilderness in a smooth, seamless action. If you've ever played Morrowind, then you already know what an open city is. The mod more or less does the same thing. The project was not originally started by me. I've simply taken over and continued from where the original authors left off.
SmaugMuds.org - The Smaug MUDs Community Center
SmaugMuds.org is a merger between the AFKMud site and The SmaugFUSS Project. The combine site is intended to be a general community center for Smaug MUD enthusiasts of all types. The site covers Smaug, SWR, SWFOTE, AFKMud, and lots of other Smaug related material. The general hope is to build it into a thriving central community for all Smaug users to gather and exchange ideas.
MudBytes is a MUD community site primarily dedicated to coders and coding discussion. It has since grown into a more general MUD community site which includes MUD listings, community based articles, and an intermud communications network.
Quicksilver Forums is a fast, secure, powerful PHP/MySQL based forum script. Features a robust 3D permission system and complete HTML template skinning engine. QSF is easily modified and is translated into 18 languages, counting English. Originally branched off from the Mercuryboard system, QSF has come a very long way in a very short period of time and has just the right mix of features and efficiency. Definitely well worth checking out if you need a forum.
QSF Portal is an offshoot of Quicksilver Forums which give you the foundation for a web based community portal site. QSF Portal builds on the powerful, efficient, and secure, QSF forum engine. It adds a robust downloads module and lightweight CMS system for building customized pages.
Sandbox is a personal website package that lets you setup and run your own blog, photo gallery, downloads center, and general purpose website. It's the software powering this website.
IMC2 is an intermud communications protocol which allows several MUDs to network together and allow their staff and players to chat with each other. This can be a very useful tool to foster ideas, get help with problems, or just generally to chat and have fun with each other in a non-restrictive environment.
Alsherok is the MUD I and several others used to maintain. It began back in 1997 as a new project for those of us who were leaving Crystal Shard for one reason or another. It grew to be quite popular for awhile before the regular players decided to move on to other things. The MUD has officially been closed to the public since May 18, 2008. All good things must eventually come to an end.
Arthmoor began as a side project several years ago when I got fed up with the service being provided by MUD hosts of the day. After awhile, I had some requests for hosting space and figured I'd open my servers to others. It's been quite an interesting journey since then and I've learned a lot about linux as a result of running the service.
PDNS-Admin, or PowerDNS Administrator, is a PHP script which aids in administering domains and records for the PowerDNS SQL name server software. PDNS-Admin is targeted mainly toward individual domain owners, but should be robust enough to be used in a larger capacity by an ISP or other big host. It started out mainly for my own personal use, but when I put it up for download, it grew legs and became quite popular.
I also dabble in a few other things here and there, including contributing some fixes to the Sandbox website code which runs this very site :)
