Planet MUD-Dev update

One new blog has been added to the aggregator:

• NaGaDeMo Websocket MUD.

Two blogs have died and been removed from the aggregator:

• Lysator.  An extremely productive developer, inspired me to work on my own MUD.  Kicked off the one he worked on because of politics, presumably the blog has been discarded.
• Ruby MUD.  This one has been dead a long time I believe.  The link was there in case it came alive.

Updates:

• This blog.  Turns out it was pointing to the awkward feedburner thing I have stopped using because it got in the way of subscribing to labels.

Frankly it is a miracle the aggregator is working.  Bluehost has changed something and python no longer works in the shell, however the cron script appears to bypass the shell configuration and uses the default Python installation.. and hence things still work.

If you know of any MUD blogs which meet the criteria and are not already here, then please sing out!  Also, if you're involved in any community projects like the Imaginary Realities thing, some blog posts about the progress on a weekly basis might be a good idea.

Airport reading

Travelling back from England I had a few extra hours to waste due to flight delays, so decided to read a few computer magazines to see if they had anything to offer these days in the age of the internet and sites like Reddit.

Linux User was not worth buying. Nothing in it really worth reading, you'd only buy it if you didn't read any web sites or didn't know how to google for information.

One of the things I liked about some of the Amiga magazines I read when I was younger, were the serialised tutorials that told you how to write computer programs one lesson at a time. The Amiga Format magazine didn't have these tutorials, but Linux Format does. As articles in a magazine they have to have a level of detail, and be written in a way that online equivalents seem to lack. Python, C and an Android game programming article. This is the sort of content that I'd consider subscribing to a magazine for.

Both magazines had the same cover topic and some of the same software on the coverdiscs as can be seen in the photos. Linux Format has the obvious and catchy phrase, where the Linux User magazine equivalent just lacks. Given the similarities and the more interesting content in Linux Format, it is almost like Linux User phones it in and copies its competitor.