I’m a software developer. There are tools I like and have successfully built applications using but I also enjoy learning new tools and languages.

My goal is to use the best tool for the job. Most of the time the “best tool” is not a choice based entirely on the merits of one platform over another. If I want to hack my WordPress install, I have to use PHP. If I want to use Lucene for something, I have to use Java.

FileIO

I wrote (the first version of) the LambdaMOO FileIO patch a long time ago, but I didn’t use it for very long and haven’t been the maintainer for a long time.

The link I had to the current version is dead.

toaststunt is a LambdaMOO fork which includes what appears to be a modern version of FileIO. I have not used it.

MOO Server Software

Recommended: wRog’s LambdaMOO 1.9.x

For anyone looking to run a LambdaMOO server today, I recommend LambdaMOO. The 1.9.0 release (currently in alpha) represents significant modernization work and is a better starting point than the various 1.8.x branches, including my own. I plan to adopt it for Waterpoint eventually. It includes the XML parser described below as well as WAIFs, Unicode, and a bunch of fixes.

My extensions

I’ve written two LambdaMOO server extensions.

Software

Most of the software I’ve written is not open source.

Much of the open source code I’ve written or contributed significantly to is hosted on GitHub.

I also wrote some software around and within LambdaMOO.

What is LambdaMOO?

LambdaMOO is a MUD server. You can read more about it on the LambdaMOO server home page. It is essentially a programmable chat server. That simplifies things a bit since one could write non-chat networked applications on top of LambdaMOO. “MOO” is just a shorthand way to refer to LambdaMOO.

LambdaMOO is also the name of a MUD that uses the LambdaMOO server. LambdaMOO, the MUD is at lambda.moo.mud.org, but I am not involved in running it in any way. LambdaMOO is the oldest MUD that uses the LambdaMOO server.