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The moolist.com MOO list currently contains over 235 MOOs.

Last status check: April 2, 2008

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Mon Aug 18 12:59:04 2008
For those that are curious, you might have noticed that the extentions on the pages are .mtl. I added this extention to the webserver as a Mason page type so you can see that most of the website is provided to you using Mason. I opted for a new Mason pagetype instead of adding it to the .html type because I didn't want the webserver to parse every single .html file for possible perl content - that's just a waste of resources.

I'd like to extol the use of Mason over something like PHP but unfortunately, when debugging a Mason page takes hours more time than actually writing code, I just can't bring myself to do it. I like some of the features that Mason adds over something like PHP but the last straw for me was when it took me three hours to debug one of the pages and I couldn't find the bug even scouring the logs only to find that because one of the libraries wasn't compiling correctly, Mason was quietly using the cached version of the library instead. Helpful.

Sun Aug 17 21:55:03 2008
Not really any new news but just a quick update to let everyone know that we haven't gone anywhere - we're still here and still adding active MOOs to the database. Keep sending in those updates if you have them! We're working on a web form submission process at the moment and hope to have it completed soon.

Thu Aug 2 21:24:34 2007
We added in a few changes to the details script today. We had the first user request a public email address so we've finally added the supporting code for that. I'm still not comfortable with publishing the email address in plain text so we have a short javascript encoder to prevent spiders from gaining the email from the source text but that still drops a plain-text email into the display. I think that we'll switch to just a descriptive link instead. If anyone has thoughts on this, let us know.

We also added a translation of the database marker for lanaguage. Currently everything is set to English but that will be changing as we re-find those MOOs that are in other languages. If your MOO is not set correctly, let us know.

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