Shiny new Ewebbed enCore Package available at The Barn

I have just uploaded a revised version of my Ewebbed enCore package to the Barn for download.

This version incorporates the new Xpress Program Editor and also includes a copy of the Neil Fraser's MOO Inspector.  You can download the complete package from this link.

http://www.encore-consortium.org/Barn/files/docs/Ewebbed-enCore-V4-a2.zip

The instructions and some documentation is here:

http://www.encore-consortium.org/Barn/files/docs/README-INSTALL-V4-a2.htm

You can see some screenshots of the Ewebbed enCore system in action here.
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For those of you who are not familiar with the Ewebbed enCore package allow me to explain.

One of the hurdles I had when first learning to code for LambdaMOO based systems was the lack of places to experiment.  Pure text based systems were pretty rare and open ones that allowed new users to be programmers were even rarer!  So I went looking for a way to easily setup a local MOO to play with.

So What?

Some days it doesn't pay to get excited about new things.

Doesn't pay, that is, if by "pay" I mean that others share in my excitement.

When I discover something new, a new tool, a new way of doing something, I tend to want to share that discovery/excitement with others. When that new thing is related to a somewhat esoteric technological system, like MOO programming for instance, I suppose I shouldn't really be surprised if most of the people around me do not share the excitement.

At least I would hope that other people who use the same system might be able to use it too.

Working with Virtual World systems, especially relatively archaic ones like MOOs, which are designed to be shared and used by others, means that if nobody uses them there is no feedback. It is literally like tossing ones work out to sea in a bottle, hoping somebody finds it.

My enjoyment of working with these systems should remain even if nobody else ever uses it.

I guess that is the key, as long as I am interested in it then it is worth my time to pursue.  If other people subsequently have a use for the stuff I'm doing that is great too.

I'll just keep right on sending those bottles out on the Cyber Sea.

Hopefully you will find something here worth your time as well.

Thanks for reading.
KJ