User:Nava Muni

Vessel I am a glove. On my own, I am but a hollow shell of potential. When donned, I become an embodiment of creation and imagination. - Nava Muni Nava Muni

Who I am

Hello! I'm Nava Muni. (A little Sanskrit there for those so inclined to investigate.)
This abstract shell is the creation of a baryonic entity living someplace within New York City.

I have a personal blog that you're all free to read and comment upon. However, bear in mind that this is a blog of my personal thoughts and musings - a place to share and sometimes to vent. You might not always like what you read, and I'm sure you'll quite often disagree with the things I have to say. I surely don't intend to offend anyone in what I post but if you feel displeasing with what you read, feel free to comment (on the blog) or ... simply "change the channel."  :)
The personal blog is undergoing major revisions ... http://navamuni.blogspot.com/

Noteworthy People

Wow! I started to compile a list of people and didn't realize that I knew so many quality residents!!

Shadow	What can I say about The Shadow? She's a great one to talk to; I can unabashedly expose my full geekiness to her. Here's a gem to really appreciate.
Zai	When I get going, I start to babble in techno. Zai doesn't miss a beat. That's rare and quite appreciated. ;P
Trinity	Driven! Vital! Exuberant! Here's one cookie full of a lot of great ideas!
Yeti Bing	A fantastic avatar designer! Every time I have a bit of spending money, you'll find me at her and Yoa's shop🖈.
Lyn	Here's a good, kind, and warm soul. And the best graphics artist/texture designer I've ever met in Second Life. She does clothing, too. (Her studio🖈.)
Keystoner March	A good, friendly neighbor with a great school, the College of Scripting, Science, and Music in Horsa🖈!
Darwin Recreant	Smart, innovative, and quite skilled. One of Keystoner's cohorts at CoSMS.
Tek Bachman	A courteous and friendly neighbor --- and a Mentor, too!
Tilla Kronos	A RL faculty (SL) pioneer. I'm constantly inspired by her desire to 'push the limit.' I find her perspective of virtual worlds in higher ed to be quite vitalizing.
Korinth Glitter	A RL industry fellow. While I don't know her SL persona very well, in RL I find her skills and personality refreshing.
Intellagirl Tully	I've had occasion to share quite a few RL moments with Intellagirl. She's quite an inspiriting personality! Check out her web site. Also, Second Life Best Practices in Education.
George Linden	Wow! He actually sat there and listened to me!

On a very personal level, there are some who fail all description:

Indigo Izumi; we mourn his passing.

JoshBear Sojourner

What I do

First and foremost, my SL life is 'defined' by being a scripter. In addition to scripting, I'm heavily involved in building, designing, planning, and logistics. I love to stay active!

I have over 27 years RL experience as a hardware and software designer and developer. I've worn the general's hat as well as picked up the shovel to dig in the trenches with everyone else. (Sometimes both at the same time!) My journey has given me many opportunities to work with people from a variety of backgrounds - each with his own set of skill and talents.
How do you manage this? You learn to bend. ;-]

So clearly (or not) I love teaching! Well ... to be more precise ... I love to help others learn. There are few things as satisfying as seeing the proverbial "light go on" as you guide someone through his trials.

In-world Specialties Here are a few script-related areas in which I specialize ... particles geometry/trigonometry (the dreaded) rotations physics IPCs in-/out-world communications I also find many opportunities to wear the hat of ... coordinator logistician project manager

Out-world Specialties Soft Things Java C/C++ PHP bash Forth and several forms of assembler (for my embedded projects) Hard Things hardware systems design hardware system integration circuit design breaking things fixing things

If you ever come twiddle some of my creations at home^🖈, you might end up talking to a little piece of off-world hardware I've built.

Why I'm here

I would have to say my reasons for being in Second Life are twofold ...

The first would be ... for fun! For me, "fun" is exploring my crazy ideas. "Fun" is also helping others' explore their crazy ideas! (Ok; sometimes not all the ideas are crazy.) But I could never say my goal with Second Life is to "make money." Not that you can't - and not that I haven't - but I came here to learn, discover, create, teach, and "expand myself.

The second would be to explore (and exploit!) the opportunities for education - both as a "student" and as an "instructor." I will never (and have never) considered Second Life to be "a game." I view it as a wonderfully rich and expressive 'place' in which to communicate and share. I love learning and I love teaching. If I can help make someone else's path a little smoother - well, then I'll be all the richer for that!

And that's why I became a Mentor and a Mentor Coach. ((How's that for a segue?!))

Class Resource Materials (Mentor Coaching et al.)

• A Pragmatic Mac Primer for non-Mac Mentors
• Lag Demystified (coming soon!)
• Prims: Invisible, Transparent, and Phantom (coming soon!)
• Second Life^® Land Ownership - An Overview (coming soon!)
• Second Life^® Land Ownership - Land Management (coming soon!)
• Copyright, "copyleft," Creative Commons, the GPL and BSD Licenses (coming soon!)

Projects

• name-to-key web service/API (compare to Alpha-Fox and w-hat)
• key-to-name web service/API (compare to Alpha-Fox)
• Second Life^® class schedule wiki extraction web service/API
• event/chat logger web service/API ( PHP source - pending)
• data 'dropbox' web service/API ( PHP source - pending)
• iCal/ICS generation web service/API
• 'quick map' Mac widget - release pending completion of language translations

Places I recommend ...

On the Web ... I think the sloog services are a fantastic resrouce! sloog is an SL bookmarking service that allows residents to "tag" favorite places and people. You can then search for them later. All this can be accomplished both in-world with a HUD device or via the Web. If you're a RL educator, you mind find SaLamander (leveraging sloog) in conjunction with MERLOT to be helpful resources. For volunteering, you have the unmatched SL Volunteer Portal and the indispensable VTeam blog! You can't go wrong by learning how to navigate the JIRA (though I'm no fan of Atlassian). For aggregated support issues, check out the wonderful efforts of Gigs Taggart at SLJiraStats. If you're looking to buy things ... Xstreet SL -- (formerly SLExchange; has some free stuff, too! - now a Linden Lab subsidiary) OnRez -- (formerly SL Boutique now merged with XStreeSL and absorbed by Linden Lab)

On the Grid ... xyz🖈 The Ivory Library Tower of Prims🖈 Mosi-Mosi Offices (sloog)🖈 The Particle Laboratory🖈

JIRA Issues

What does JIRA mean?

My 'Favorite' SL Technical Issues

SVC-93	llSetPrimitiveParams PRIM_ROTATION and llSetRot incorrectly implemented for child prims
SVC-1577	llHTTPRequest returns 499 on some ip addresses (not all)
SVC-1649	llStopAnimation( "type" ) disables AGENT_TYPING bitfield returned by llGetAgentInfo()
SVC-1917	llHttpRequest returns status 499 on a working web site
SVC-2833	More than 25 groups!
SVC-2938	Server 1.24.3.95195 ... llGetNextEmail(string address, string subject) ... with a value in the SUBJECT field ... will fail ...
SVC-3202	drag/drop destination prim in linkset object varies based on type of asset
SVC-3338	script using llRemoveInventory() tries to delete items not in object's inventory and embeds "invisible" random script (oy!)
VWR-5895	llTargetOmega periodically stoppping rotation
VWR-6387	multi-prim attachments designed to move on command DO move but DO NOT show as moved when avatar's Z >= 420m
VWR-7137	Viewer Crashes on Quit - Macintosh
VWR-7779	Mac viewer suffers from cyclic pauses/freezes/fatal hangs
VWR-1298	Group Chat Delays
VWR-10490	viewer locks up after teleport while user interface is turned off
VWR-12014	Some Mac keyboard shortcuts are essentially wrong
WEB-814	cannot post event where land's landing point's Z is > 768

Features I'd Like

SVC-2089	some estate features for mainland and subdivision parcel owners
SVC-3947	Save Object Back to My Inventory
MISC-271	addition of ternary operator (will this be moot with 'LSL3' and Mono?)
MISC-760	Enhancements to notecard processing to facilitate use as a configuration tool
WEB-789	seach by lot size; widen display (Land Auction)

My SL Technical Issues

View the issues Nava Muni has filed at jira.secondlife.com