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John Internet

John Internet

I write code, Q/A stuff and keep servers running.

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7 posts •
Development

Development Blog #9 - how suggestions???

Questions we get all the time, "How do suggestions work?", "Why hasn't this been implemented?", "Why are you so bad?". There's a thread, but perhaps it's time to write a post, and keep people updated?

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    John Internet
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Dev Blog #8 - Planning for the future.

The future, it's a scary, it's an unknown; we need to make sure we're ready for it. So, we make plans, roadmaps and try to figure out what we're doing, both for the short and the long term.

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    John Internet
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Dev Blog #7 - Technical Debt, you don't want to wait for the bailiffs to call.

People who have seen either my or Faustie's forum posts, or were around for the community meeting have heard us talk about technical debt, but we haven't really explained what it is or what it means.

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    John Internet
3 min read
Development

Dev Blog #6 - Refunds, Replacements and Corrections. The secret life of ItemIDs.

You may have noticed we've had to take the servers down for a bit, run some magic, then go back up.This can take hours or it can take minutes. But the question is, what does it have to do with the bind generator? This, is the secret life of ItemIDs.

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    John Internet
6 min read
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Dev Blog #5 - Development Feedback

So, if you've been looking on that top scrolling notification bar, you'll have seen that we had a development feedback survey. It's time to get back in and analyse the results. Thank you to the over 200 people that responded.

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    John Internet
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Dev Blog #4 - /drop exploit, a post mortem.

When exploits happen, we fix them, but do we ever explain how they happened? The /drop exploit, a post mortem.

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    John Internet
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Dev Blog #2 - Optimisation
Development

Dev Blog #2 - Optimisation

Optimisation is a complaint we get a lot of complaints about, from the community, from staff and from me; yet fixing it isn't as simple as flicking a switch.

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    John Internet
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