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Welcome to Jim D Scott dot Com. This is where I experiment with fiction and technology.

Application version: 0.61. Web.py version: 0.38. System Python version: 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jun 20 2019, 14:14:55) [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-23)]. Hello, my world. You asked for page: donate

About Jim D Scott dot Com

About this site

This site is built using web.py version 0.33, because that's what Site5 supports. It's also running about Python 2.6 for the same reason.

The site uses Mobile JQuery.

To use web.py with Site5, I needed to follow a few key steps:

• Added this line AddHandler fcgid-script .py to my .htaccess file, which is slightly different than what is recommended on the webpy.org site (fastcgi-script)
• Created a local link in my development environment to python2.6 and a local install of web.py 0.33 to match the production environment.
• I update the production site by zipping the files locally, scp'ing them to Site5, then unzipping into the web directory. I'm sure this could be improved.

It seemed like I learned a lot more than three points, but I think that's mostly me learning what not to do. For example:

• Don't use periods in class or id names with jQuery.
• Permissions are always important. Check permissions with the

  namei -m

  command. Anonymous access is the most important. Apache/Anonymous must have execute rights on all directories in the path and read rights on every file.
• Rather than banging my head against a way, I followed these instructions for setting up an SVN repository with Eclipse.

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Games at Jim D Scott dot com

Games

I am playing around with web.py and JavaScript to build some simple games. My first effort, Zombie Trail, was a hybrid between Oregon Trail and a zombie survival game set on the road between SXSW and Bonaroo. That project is hibernating for now as being a bit too challenging for my current skills.

Here are games that are more my speed. There's no polish here, because these are proofs of concept not real games.

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  Tic-Tac-Toe

  You should never, ever be able to win.

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  Fearsome Foursome

  Can you get 4 in a row before the AI? Probably.

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  Snack Stand

  Sell sugary snacks for fun and profit!

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  Hoops

  Manage a college basketball team (under development).

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  Web of Life

  Make decisions for a fictional you (under development).

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Zeb Nebulon

Zeb Nebulon

I'm the author of Zeb Nebulon's Erotic Adventures Through Space and Time -- Part 1. Zeb Nebulon is a secret agent for the Pan-American Brotherhood which, in the year 2009, is engaged in a life-and-death struggle for national survival against the Icelandic contingent.

More information on Zeb Nebulon is available here.

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Donate

I'm the donation page. Eventually I will finish and publish a game which will be so good, you'll want to give me more in exchange for your enjoyment. This makes me a whore and an unrealistic whore, at that.

On the other hand, as I've always said, it is better to be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right. Which also makes me think that if I could build a game that left people feeling hopeful, I could probably rob my customers blind.

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