There are the obvious links, like where to download a copy of Minetest for yourself to enjoy, as well as links to other stuff that may or may not be so obvious.
Minetest
Minetest's Official, Main Website http://minetest.net/
Minetest's Official Forums http://forum.minetest.net/
Where to Download From (Linux, Mac, Windows, source code)
http://minetest.net/download
Minetest's Official Forums http://forum.minetest.net/
Where to Download From (Linux, Mac, Windows, source code)
http://minetest.net/download
Working with Mods
Meld http://meldmerge.org/
Meld is a free, open-source program for comparing and merging the contents of text files and directories. Useful when you want to compare the code of updates to your existing code before installing the updates.
My blog post where I talk about using Meld: "Merging Mod Updates into Your Custom Versions"
Geany http://www.geany.org/
Geany is a free, open-source, light-weight, cross-platform IDE (Integrated Development Environment, eh... "code editor" in laymen's terms) that can handle many different coding languages and can be expanded with plugins.
If you are using a netbook or an older computer and are not a command-line masochist, then Geany may be the right code editor for your needs.
Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/
Eclipse is a free, open-source, cross-platform IDE. Written in java, Eclipse comes "out of the box" ready to code java but is capable of handling many other programming languages.
My blog post about Geany and Eclipse: "Geany vs Eclipse for Making Mods for Minetest"
GitHub http://github.com
GitHub is where you can find the source code of Minetest and its main game. GitHub is also used by most of Minetest's mod makers. So if you want the latest releases of Minetest and it's mods, GitHub is where you will find them.
LazyJ's GitHub Page http://github.com/LazyJ?tab=repositories
At present, just a few mods that I've reworked (forked) for use in LinuxGaming.
Meld is a free, open-source program for comparing and merging the contents of text files and directories. Useful when you want to compare the code of updates to your existing code before installing the updates.
My blog post where I talk about using Meld: "Merging Mod Updates into Your Custom Versions"
Geany http://www.geany.org/
Geany is a free, open-source, light-weight, cross-platform IDE (Integrated Development Environment, eh... "code editor" in laymen's terms) that can handle many different coding languages and can be expanded with plugins.
If you are using a netbook or an older computer and are not a command-line masochist, then Geany may be the right code editor for your needs.
Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/
Eclipse is a free, open-source, cross-platform IDE. Written in java, Eclipse comes "out of the box" ready to code java but is capable of handling many other programming languages.
My blog post about Geany and Eclipse: "Geany vs Eclipse for Making Mods for Minetest"
GitHub http://github.com
GitHub is where you can find the source code of Minetest and its main game. GitHub is also used by most of Minetest's mod makers. So if you want the latest releases of Minetest and it's mods, GitHub is where you will find them.
LazyJ's GitHub Page http://github.com/LazyJ?tab=repositories
At present, just a few mods that I've reworked (forked) for use in LinuxGaming.
Miscellaneous
Imgur http://imgur.com/
Imgur is the free image hosting service I use.
I like how my screenshot images, linked from Imgur, show up in a manual, slide-show format in my blog, when the screenshot is clicked on.
Individual images have to be kept under 1mb in size, which for posting Minetest screenshots on blogs and forums is plenty big.
Too big, in fact.
Compress the png files with pngcrush, optipng, or pngquant before uploading to save on bandwidth and upload/download time. pngcrush, optipng, and pngquant are Linux command-line programs. Unfortunately, I don't know what their Mac or MS Windows counterparts would be.
Google Images http://www.google.com/imghp
Google Images was always one of those things that, I kind-of knew existed but really had no use for.
That is... until I started building more complex things in Minetest.
Now Google Images is my "go to" source for research when planning build projects.
Imgur is the free image hosting service I use.
I like how my screenshot images, linked from Imgur, show up in a manual, slide-show format in my blog, when the screenshot is clicked on.
Individual images have to be kept under 1mb in size, which for posting Minetest screenshots on blogs and forums is plenty big.
Too big, in fact.
Compress the png files with pngcrush, optipng, or pngquant before uploading to save on bandwidth and upload/download time. pngcrush, optipng, and pngquant are Linux command-line programs. Unfortunately, I don't know what their Mac or MS Windows counterparts would be.
Google Images http://www.google.com/imghp
Google Images was always one of those things that, I kind-of knew existed but really had no use for.
That is... until I started building more complex things in Minetest.
Now Google Images is my "go to" source for research when planning build projects.
