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Archive for the 'Development' CategoryNew WindLight Viewer (79674)Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 by: Pastrami Linden Hey all. Firstly, if you’re using a Mac and running Leopard, please make sure you’ve updated to Leopard 10.5.2! Do this process at least twice to ensure you get the latest GL drivers!!! Bold!!!
And now, Bugs fixed… (more…)
System Requirements Update – Now with Vista Support!Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 by: Maurice LindenAs a few of you may have noticed already, we’ve updated our System Requirements Page. We have made a handful of changes, but the most significant is support for Windows Vista. This has been a long time coming and we are very excited to finally announce it! Whether you have Vista or not, please review the new requirements page to verify support for your current setup. More Vista info after the cut…
New WindLight Viewer (79185) + ATI talkTuesday, February 5th, 2008 by: Pastrami Linden
Hey all. New WindLight update with lots of tasty fixes! But before diving in, if you have an ATI card be sure to get the latest drivers.
Media Server Update Feb 5th 2-4 AM PSTMonday, February 4th, 2008 by: Kate LindenWe will perform a rolling update on the voice servers tonight between 2 AM and 4 AM PST. During this time residents may experience brief outages of voice service which should last no longer than five minutes.
Joe Miller podcast transcript now availableFriday, February 1st, 2008 by: catherinelinden
‘Inside the Lab’ podcast with Joe MillerThursday, January 24th, 2008 by: catherinelindenThe second edition of our ‘Inside the Lab’ podcast series is now available. The series started with Philip Linden’s vision for Second Life in 2008. This time we delve into the technical aspects of Second Life with Joe Miller, VP of platform and technology development. Joe talks us through the technical priorities for our engineering team, focusing on four key areas:
Joe even sets some goals in terms of performance for the next quarter which we’ll all be able to track from the monthly Quality Metrics we release.
I’d like to thank Joe for his time in talking with me and for sharing some insights into the stability and performance efforts the engineering team is working on. Let me know know in the comments if there are other aspects you’d like us to cover in the next edition.
Until then - thanks for listening!
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New WindLight Viewer (77495) + Mac talkWednesday, January 23rd, 2008 by: Pastrami Linden
Hey all. So, in addition to announcing this WindLight Update’s many important bug fixes, I wanted to discuss some Mac Issues and what you all can expect for their resolution. Firstly, though, the fix list:
New WindLight Viewer! (76886)Thursday, January 10th, 2008 by: Pastrami Linden
WindLight Survey Results, Part 2!Thursday, January 10th, 2008 by: Pastrami LindenHey all. So I’ve gathered the results from the last WindLight Survey. Before I jump into the results themselves, however, I wanted to address one of the biggest issues that it raised: that of survey thoroughness. Many people loved the survey, but many also felt it was too broad and didn’t allow for enough depth (for example- coloration issues at sunset, not just brightness). Read on for my rationale and what the survey means for the future of WL…
WindLight Look-and-Feel Survey Part 2!Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 by: Pastrami LindenHey all, as promised, we’re re-opening the WindLight Look-and-Feel Survey, which should this time feature unlimited responses. The last survey was capped at 100 so this should let everyone participate. We’ll keep it open for about a day or two and publish the results. Happy lighting and voting! - Pastrami and the WindLight Team |
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