Simon Willison’s Weblog

SecondLife rolls out Mono-powered servers. Most of the work on this was done in Linden Lab’s Brighton UK office. If you’re interested in Mono and want to live in Brighton, they’re hiring!

# 21st August 2008, 9:45 am / jimpurbrick, lindenlab, migueldeicaza, mono, secondlife

A Toy Chat Server with Eventlet and Mulib (via) Eventlet (the Python non-blocking IO library originally written for Second Life) is ideally suited to building Comet servers; Chuck Thier demonstrates a simple chat server in a small amount of code.

# 21st March 2008, 3:28 am / chuckthier, comet, eventlet, lindenlab, mulib, python, secondlife

Mono Beta Launch—Official Linden Blog. The Mono VM is now in public beta testing running LSL scripts in Second Life. The first step on the road to IronPython support?

# 30th January 2008, 2:19 am / ironpython, lindenlab, lsl, mono, python, secondlife, virtualmachines

Eventlet—Second Life Wiki. Seriously powerful non-blocking IO library for Python, currently maintained by Linden Lab as part of the server architecture used for Second Life.

# 26th November 2007, 3:21 pm / eventlet, io, lindenlab, python, secondlife