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Robert de Forest edited this page Jan 28, 2019 · 1 revision

If this project interests you and you haven't already been in touch with the team, email guitar.robot@gmail.com for introductions and such.

I don't remember how MUDs work? HALP?!

You need a client. Any client "should" work, but it's a rough world out there... for now I recommend

Then you need a MUD (or MOO) to play on.

  • Waterpoint
  • waterpoint.moo.mud.org:8301
  • (My favorite)
  • LambdaMOO
  • lambda.moo.mud.org:7777
  • The first MOO is still alive and kicking.

I'm Crag on both but I don't stay logged in. If you want to chat on either email or IM me (guitar.robot@gmail.com) in advance.

I heard you're pushing CoffeeScript. What do I need to know?

Here's a great interactive tutorial: http://autotelicum.github.io/Smooth-CoffeeScript/interactive/interactive-coffeescript.html

Or try this: https://www.codeschool.com/courses/coffeescript

I need something to play with now.

Check out hubot! https://hubot.github.com/

Setting up your own development host

NOTE: As of 2015-06-04, this app is just an ExpressJS skeletion. The code is not as interesting as the documentation.

Install dependencies

  • Some kind of git
  • nodejs.org

Set yourself up

  • Create a github account if you don't have one already
  • Fork this project
  • Clone your fork to your development host
  • npm install
  • npm start

Using the shared development host

Setup

Get a shell account

Email Al requesting a shell account. You may specify a username up to 8 characters long or let him pick one for you.

Get an ssh client

If you're on Windows, download and install PuTTy. OS X and Linux distributions should already have an ssh client installed.

Logging in

Use your ssh client to connect to the shared host.

OS X and Linux

At a command prompt:

ssh username@dev.thatsnice.org

where 'username' is whatever shell account you got setup for you before by Al.

Windows

You can use PuTTy from the command line, but it's a pain. Talk to Robert about how to make PuTTy easier to work with and then update this page to reflect that conversation.

As of 2015-06-06, the project's coding style is still in flux, but it is at least partially documented.

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