Potential Blog

Now there is a Wiki engine installed for the MMORPG Guide. Befitting the name, DokuWiki was wiki wiki fast to install (about 2 minutes from upload to running). I’ll have to work on the theme later. As far as content, I hope to scribe a clean, comprehensive, and concise Player’s Guide (but don’t look for it anytime soon).

Now, how to include a cloth map…

This category is for MMORPG Alpha edition announcements. Alpha is not publicly available, but we are making significant progress toward Beta, which will be more open. Watch the Potential Games blog for news.

I’ve installed a new bug tracking tool: Flyspray. This supplants the previous BUGS (The Bug Genie) system, which I could never get into.

Rant: BUGS was supposed to be easy-to-use, but that seemed to translate to “pretty icons” rather than clean functionality. In fact, I found the UI interaction to be particularly clunky and confusing. There were too many redundant and conflicting ways to manage bug reports. I suspect the developers were more familiar with CSS than bug tracking. It did have pretty icons, though.

So far, I like Flyspray much better. In fact, the only reason I didn’t install it originally (last year) was that their latest version did not have an installer. No big deal, except that my previous Web host only had FTP access (yech), so I couldn’t do a manual install. That, and a test install of the previous version failed.

So it took them several months to finish the installer… who am I to complain about lengthy software development?

If you’re reading this on the Dev Cave Dlog page, then I’ve managed to integrate WordPress blog entries into a page outside the realm of the WordPress install. The primary resource was the WordPress Codex article on The Loop plus API reference for the query_posts() function. The following snippet could (should) certainly be made into a common parameterized function.

Soapbox: Note that I prefer to write code that is readable, rather than jumping in and out of php tags, interspersed with BASIC-esque syntax (endif… geesh).

<?php
if (file_exists("../../blog"))
{
    require_once("../../blog/wp-config.php");
    define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
    query_posts('cat=4&showposts=5');
    if (have_posts())
    {
        while (have_posts())
        {
            the_post();
            echo "<div class='section'><h1>";
            the_title();
            echo "</h1><p>";
            the_time('F j, Y g:i a');
            echo "</p><p>";
            the_content();
            echo "</p></div>";
        }
    }
    else
    {
        echo "<p>No Dev Posts</p>";
    }
}
?>

The MMORPG Dev category has been created to announce software development related info for tech-savvy players.

Info and announcements from MMORPG will now be published via the Potential Games blog under the MMORPG News category.

Get ready for the brand-new old-school Massively-Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game!