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Avaraline Development Group
Who or what is Avaraline?
There are a few answers to this question. The most
literal answer is that Avaraline is the name of the
Hotline server we have run for some seven years now. A less
obvious, but perfectly valid response would be to go and ask
your mother.
The "we" has varied throughout the years, but most of our core and initial users have stayed along with us. The ones that perhaps concern you, however, are our resident programmers, of which we have quite a few. This site is home to their Hotline related projects.
Among these programmers we have the venerable Dan Watson and Jonathan Voss.
The "we" has varied throughout the years, but most of our core and initial users have stayed along with us. The ones that perhaps concern you, however, are our resident programmers, of which we have quite a few. This site is home to their Hotline related projects.
Among these programmers we have the venerable Dan Watson and Jonathan Voss.
Who is Dan?
Dan 'vertigo' Watson is our resident mad genius, Hotline
code-guru, and slobbering drunk. He has a Computer
Science degree from the University of Maryland, and looks
completely awesome when he rides an ATV.
He has also written approximately six clients, three servers, and three infobots for Hotline over the years. To be honest, I've stopped counting. The current iterations of VertiClient and VertiServer were mostly functional within a week of development time, and JVC over a single weekend. He's had a lot of practice.
He has also written approximately six clients, three servers, and three infobots for Hotline over the years. To be honest, I've stopped counting. The current iterations of VertiClient and VertiServer were mostly functional within a week of development time, and JVC over a single weekend. He's had a lot of practice.
Who is Jon?
Jonathan 'poverty' Voss is another smarty-pants coder, and is
responsible for PovertiClient and his alterations to megahal,
an open-source nonsense-spewing chatterbot. He will attain his Computer Science degree from
Iowa State University this fall, and is goddamn incredible at
slam-dunking a basketball.
Remember to vote for him in November!
Remember to vote for him in November!
Why are you doing this?
Depends on who you ask. Mainly to keep the protocol alive
and spur it forward. But PovertiClient was started initially
to give Win32 a decent client; most users on Avaraline agree
that up until now none of the offerings were sufficient.
PHX was started because Shingo prefers command line clients,
and wanted a way to learn python.
Our protocol extensions weren't added until later.
Our protocol extensions weren't added until later.