Spireal research

Some good news related to Spireal:

- I got my new-old books to refresh on client-server programming: ‘Internetworking with TCP/IP V3′ by Douglas E. Comer and ‘Unix Network Programming, Sockets and XTI’ by Stevens.  Both are excellent books on TCP/IP and server-client design so I’m slowly chewing through them while thinking about the overall design of Spireal in my head.

- Did some research today since I’m planning to have both the server and the client run both on Linux/Unix and Win32 platforms.  Found a couple of good libraries to use for cross platform development:

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) : cross platform library for audio/video etc.

GNU Common C++: cross platform library especially useful for threaded-concurrent-socket apps.

Both of these are gems as they are maintained and support both -nix and win32.

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Busy,Busy,Busy

What a busy day!  Work was nuts, and I still have a small fountain of ideas coming forth from my head.  I’ve updated the Spireal Project section with a bunch of stuff and managed to spill out of my the whole general concept of the game in the About Spireal section.

I’ve also discovered that my car was running pretty much out of oil.  No wonder the ole’ faithful was ticking and knocking like a disel.

Off to bed.. going to try to find time tomorrow to finish a general target for a starting point for Spireal Client.

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Back to work!

My dharma stuff came in the mail today, I can slowly begin to weave my normal practice into my life.  The goal this time about is to make it a beautiful thread of joy and love in the general tapestry of my life, NOT the tapestry of my life

Seeing a set of Bodhisattva Vow cards carefully wrapped in paper labelled ‘Wow inside!’ made me grin at the inside joke and remember Geshla with love in my heart.

It’s going to be fun learning to balance my work, practice and Spireal project in a healthy combo.

Love and Mud

So two days ago on Monday after many reoccuring dreams and memories of the good times of ole’ I’ve peeked back on ForsakenLands a MUD I used to run some four years ago back before having a career and all the junk that entitles you to.

It was very heartwarming to see the community I abruptly left behind still flourishing four years later, and see the echos of the creative dreams of that time.  Funny enough an old MUD friend of mine Mike Stimson called me on the same day saying he’s been toying around the MUD playing a bit.

It’s so strange that even after four years I got a wierd ache in my heart at seeing many people who were around the time I managed the game, a bit of a testament to how much of an emotional link you can create by sharing your imagination and dreams with people whom you’ll probably never see in real life.  I got a chance to say thank you to the people who carried what in large part was my dream of a ‘game’ for last four years, and maybe impart a bit of advice (I just can’t resist spewing my opinions).

Most importantly I feel like the part of my mind that was always feeling guilty about abandoning that community which I and many people were very much part off, is at peace at itself.  Interestingly enough the whole decision to peek in on the good ole’ FL, has sparked off a huge volcano of creative activity in my brain to do with making some sort of ‘better’ version of a MUD for the days of World of Warcraft.  My head’s been spraying ideas all over the place since Monday, so I’ve decided to create this journal and start putting all this creative energy to good use.

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