• ValhallaRift.com and its side-projects

    A domain name that I once owned… letting it expire years ago, but got it back summer of 2020. I have two little side projects on this domain… and yes, both revolve around Rift MMORPG. Despite Rift MMORPG’s population being in shambles ten years onward (server stats show no more than 500 people online at any given time in North America as of late 2020), the game still has a nice tight-knit community. I really do wish Gamigo would take the time to revitalize Rift; otherwise, it’s time is coming for it to be set off to the pasture. Anyhow, here’s the two domains… https://events.valhallarift.com https://maps.valhallarift.com Events The events subdomain lists all active zone events on North America and European server cluster. They are broken down into the event name, what server

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  • PrancingTurtle.com

    Prancing Turtle…. no, it’s not what you think it is! PrancingTurtle.com is a DPS / HPS ePeen site for Rift MMORPG raiders. I took up the project from a user known as Hewi in October 2020 and spent a good month editing code, optimizing, and migrating statics to AWS s3. Additionally, I have been optimizing the code on the site so that it loads a smidge faster. I’m hosting the site on my DSL after all, so every bit counts! The code is (for the most part) in C#, there are web assets that are the obvious outlier to the C# bits… but for the most part, the site feels quite easy to code in. Guess that’s due to my previous history with PHP, Java, and JavaScript knowledge. 🙂 With that being

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