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Reference implementations

May 19 2011

An ounce of documentation is worth a pound of implementation. In conjunction with a specification (or documentation, if you prefer the more inclusive term), a reference implementation is a good thing. Without a specification, a reference implementation is an astonishingly efficient way of propagating bugs into third-party software.

The Second Life viewer is in the latter category, alas.

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Second Life Statistical Charts 466 views
SL Statistical Charts (testing) 179 views
Without limitation 59 views
Another alt-detector on the Second Life Marketplace 40 views
Project Skylight, the Web-based viewer for Second Life now on the Web 24 views
No more quarterly or annual Second Life economy reports, says Lab 18 views
Just how do you identify an alt online? 11 views
Communications blackout – iinet’s communicators fail company and customers 11 views
Linden Lab entertaining offers 10 views
Sim on a stick 9 views

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Email evolved

Dec 20 2010

In a way, Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs – like Sendmail and Postfix) are somewhat like relics of our past.

They stand like great monuments to the baroque and arcane tasks that were once required to get an email from one person to another.

Like vast pyramids raised up just to inter some dead person, MTAs hint at the monumental complexity that used to be email.

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Unencumbered viewer code

Nov 6 2010

Linden Lab maintains the source code for its viewer as an unencumbered asset (through the mechanism of contribution agreements). This allows it to maintain the value of the codebase in the event of a sale, but brings with it some rather obvious problems.

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