Deviant Solutions

Francis and I are working on the Game Design Invitational for the 2008 Microsoft Imagine Cup. Things are already shaping up, we have the "goal" or outline of what we want to accomplish and how the game world will be created. Overall this promises to be an interesting project. I have added a link to the project's page in the top right corner of the site.

http://TerraNet.deviantsolutions.net/

For the past month or so I have been using my laptop as a media center / dedicated counter-strike source server for my friends. This has been fun and all, but I have decided to take things up a notch. I have run linux on the laptop before, but only for short periods, eventually something would come along and I would switch back to windows. I have decided to run Gentoo 2007.0 with the Dedicated Server and some sort of media center software. I think I may also work the dedicated server stats into a section of this site, but that is just speculation right now.

I have just performed another Drupal install over at http://www.soc.deviantsolutions.net/. I hope to use that area as my testing ground for the module I will be writing this summer. The first module I will be writing is a "Featured Links" block. It will incorporate the actual block to display the links and the interface to add links to the block. I am sure something similar to this is already out there, but I need something to get my feet wet in the Drupal environment.

i think i'm blogged? woo!

Francis and I decided to get this webspace so we would have a place to work with rails and PHP. Also because Dreamhost is awesome we have two subversions running on it and 3 Drupal installations. I am happy about these because I am a Google Summer of Code participant working for Drupal writing a BitTorrent tracker module. It is interesting that it has taken four months to finally setup the root of our webspace, but Francis and I have been so busy and we pretty much just kept to our individual sub-domains.

I finally got around to placing something in the root of our webspace. This is a clean drupal 5.7 installation and I hope to use this as a space for a blog as well as anything else I can come up with.

The Drupal BitTorrent Tracker project looks to provide Drupal users the power of the BitTorrent protocol when moving large files from their website to their visitors. The main outcome of this project will be a BitTorrent “invisible tracker” that integrates with Drupal through a module. The module will allow for the addition and removal of torrents, IP address management (banning IP addresses or ranges) and statistical presentation concerning information about the tracker (current seeders, leechers, swarm speed, active torrents, etc.).