We use vagrant at work to set up our development environments, but we don't deploy with it. Honestly if I had to pick a tool for this purpose I'd choose Docker (https://www.docker.com/).

Wow... This may get me to actually try it out.

Bootstrap is great, and very easy to pickup. Probably the easiest in fact. jQuery UI is not really a full UI framework, so much as a collection of supplemental features. The last time I messed with it was a long time ago, but at the time it was very heavy for what it did - almost all of which you ca...

Where are you guys getting these stats? On TMC's list I'm seeing Aardwolf as having around 200 players online at any given time - which for a text game is pretty impressive. But the game has been around since '96, so it's had a ton of time to grow into what it is now. I'll say that I'm not really co...

Hmmm... well maybe once I have an early prototype of the client I can share it and you guys can give it a try and tell me what it's lacking. I think trial and error is probably the only way to really merge these things successfully, since I'm not sure if it's really been done in the way I'm envision...

So Jack, would you be against having to enter any text commands at all? I'm sort of on the fence about that. I want to be able to enter text commands, but I want the UI to be smart enough to autocomplete for me in a lot of situations. And I want processes like inventory management to be handled thro...

Man I'm terrible at this.

-snip-. This is sort of what I mean. Bringing the MUD style game into sort of a next-gen. The die hard MUD fans seem to be against these sort of changes - citing ease of access as one of the main reasons for sticking with old MUD clients and architecture. What I want to have is the text-based comma...

MUDs; anyone around here play them? What is your general opinion of MUDs? Do you think that bringing one into a next-gen, browser based environment would be a draw to the genre? I see games like Achaea doing very well with their browser clients - although I'm not sure what the backend is written in.

Yes, both bitbucket and github allow private repositories, but they have some restrictions. On Github, you pay for private repositories and a limited number of people (that you designate) can access them. In bitbucket, you can have an unlimited number of private repositories that only you can access...