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This month on the Mopar Monthly: Welcome to the second edition of the Mopar Monthly! For those of you who don't know what this is, the Mopar Monthly is a monthly magazine where users can see the best of the best in the forums for each month, user interviews, rants, and more! Users are free to submit controversial news articles, thought-provoking rants, and anything else by contacting any members of the Mopar Monthly team. For those of you that read the previous edition and provided feedback, a big thanks to you all for keeping this possible!
####Included in this edition will be:
- The Overall Most Helpful Member(s) of the Month
- Notable Developments
- Featured Tutorials
- User Submission #1
- Community Polls
- User Submission #2
- An Interview With a Forum User
Unfortunately, due to a lack of community involvement with this month's edition, it will be slightly shorter than the previous edition. You may notice that it will take less time to read through this edition, but if you would like to change that in the future, please send submissions to anyone involved with writing the Mopar Monthly.
#####Section 1: The Overall Most Helpful Member(s) of the Month:
This category is for users who are willing to help people in need of help. This award doesn't mean that these users know everything - they may also need help from time to time - but they're always willing to give up some of their time to help someone who needs it. Users have been listed depending on which section they have the most influence in.
######Server Help:
######Web Design/Development:
######General Programming:
If you have any other nominations for future editions of the Mopar Monthly, please send a private message to Flame_ or send a private message to Ambokile. Please don't publicly dispute any listings for this month, instead contact a member of the team if you feel one of them is incorrect.
#####Section 2: Notable Developments
######Development 1:
- Name: Arios 498
- Type: RSPS
- Revision: 498
- Development Started On: December 24, 2012
- Developers: vexia, prothium
- Link: click me
#####Section 3: Featured Tutorials
Tutorials are arguably the best way to learn how to do things. They're a step-by-step guide on how to add features, modify existing features or even in some cases remove features. Here is a list (in no particular order) of tutorials that deserve particular recognition this month. Congratulations to all listed!
Tutorials featured in this section do not necessarily have to have been posted this month, they're just tutorials that we feel deserve recognition. If your tutorial isn't featured this month, take a look at these tutorials, improve yours accordingly and you could be featured in the next issue!
######Data Encapsulation and its Importance in RSPS Programming:
- Language: Java (Applicable to most OOP languages, though)
- Creator(s): Clawz fury
- What the tutorial is: An explanation of what data encapsulation is, why it should be used, when it should be used and how to use it.
- Link: click me
######Edit and Get Your NPC Data Server Sided:
- Language: Java
- Creator(s): Arham 4
- What the tutorial is: An explanation of how to created an improved framework for NPC definitions.
- Base: Palidino's 562
- Link: click me
######Creating Your Own Highscores from Scratch:
- Languages: PHP, HTML, SQL, Java
- Creator(s): Fox2007
- What the tutorial is: An explanation of how to create your own highscores page and link it to your server.
- Base: 718 server, although modifications can be made to use on any server.
- Link: click me
#####Section 4: Community Polls
This is a new category that the Mopar Monthly teams is willing to experiment with. The primary focus of this section is to provoke new threads (and thinking) within the forums, while covering different controversial ideas. The community is free to suggest different polls to the team and if they show some thought, you can be sure to see them in following editions!
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Poll #1: Where do you feel RSPS is headed within the following months and years?
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Poll #2: What can we as a community do to make the forum a better place to be?
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Poll #3: Should forum members have more freedom on how they can customize their profiles? (i.e. avatars, custom titles, image sigs)
#####Section 5: An Interview With a Forum User
Welcome to what we believe is the spectacle of the Mopar Monthly. Within this section, you will be able to hear the thoughts of one user after each question asked of them. The best part of this is that the interviewed user switches monthly, so you could be the next interviewed user! This month's interviewed user is the Mopar member, Miss Silabsoft. Have fun reading through!
- Before we start with all of the questions, why don't you tell us a bit about yourself.
That would take the fun away from being a mopar legend.
- From what we understand, you originally moved to China in order to be an English tutor. What is it like being an educator, and has it lived up to what you thought it would've been?
I do work in china, Shenzhen to be specific at a english teaching school. It's a very cool job although I do not teach much anymore as I have taken over more of the back end of it. I sort of fell into the position when my cousin requested me to help with the school after he had purchased it and then decided to move back to the united states with his wife. So far its been fun but I doubt I would stay here forever.
- Do you have any future plans for the Silab client, or is it over for good?
I had never envisioned the initial popularity of the silab client and really didn't take care of it or the source for that matter so I doubt I would ever want to go through the trouble of writing it again, for those that are interested its a relatively simple setup all I did was take a higher revision client item definition loading and model loading and slapped it into the 317, this involves adding some extra variables and the method reading both model headers but nothing beyond that.
- Are there any projects you're working on now?
Not really, motivation has always been a problem for me.
- What was your inspiration for creating the Silab client? Was there any sort of motivation in particular?
The Silabclient was just an idea I had some may remember that prior to more advanced sources coming out people really didn't bother with using a 508 server or beyond myself included I had already previously added custom models to the 317 cache (the halo energy sword to be exact) as well as added custom item definitions (black phat). I then proceeded to try to import the dark bow into a 317 cache. After I had successfully released the dark bow client people started requesting more and more items. again my laziness got the better of me and I just wrote a quick app to import all the items and item models of the current revision and released it as the silabclient.
- What was it like hosting the most popular web client, and what made you stop?
At first it was expensive originally I didn't have advertising on the site I simply moved the silabclient to my own website because mopar forums had been flooded with nothing but silab questions. I was banned from my first host within 48 hours due to the amount of traffic i was pulling on the shared hosting plan. I then moved to a dedicated server which was costing me around $175 a month. After adding Google Adsense and tribal fusion it was atleast profitable but more work than I really wanted to deal with. As for what made me give it up Jagex was pressing me about removing it and at the time Ruler Eric was getting sued for IBot. Sometimes being an adult sucks I decided it was safer just to remove the webclient.
- What originally sparked your interest in programming? What was the first language you tackled?
Aryan was the reason I started to do programming I wanted a herb fetching bot.
- Aside from Java, what languages do you feel you are talented in, and what are your capabilities?
I don't really feel talented in any language English included. Everything I have learned is self taught and not always from the best sources.
- What do you believe is the reason behind what many members feel is a lack of advancement in the RSPS community, and do you have any possible solutions?
I think the reason RSPS servers are dying is because Runescape is dying. Maybe if the Runescape community recovers the RSPS communities will also start to recover. Another opinion of mine would be a lack of community driven projects. However myself included have tried and failed to start one of these over the years I guess its just the curse of Moparscape.
- Who from the forums do you think has a particular talent when it comes to programming? Why?
newbiehacker - although hes a lazy love over the years he has produced some interesting sources that I have always enjoyed to play with
- Are there any promising developments you've noticed over the last year?
the updated cache grabber was a pretty nice addition to the forums I don't know if its still being maintained but someone should totally make a cache repository with it.
- Were there any personal qualities or leadership abilities that you encountered and picked up while you were a staff member?
Depends which time, if you mean the first time I was staff prior to me being banned from the forums. No I was horrible because I was a report Nazi. After I was allowed to return to the boards and become a mod again I took a much more laid back approach and didn't really let myself get worked up about it. If I had any advice for current mods I would just say remember its a volunteer position.
- How did you find Mopar, and what was it like at the time compared to now?
I found Mopar after Kaitnieks closed. It's basically the same old faces have disappeared some return some don't but nothing gets done anyway so it does not matter =D
- If you had to choose a song to describe the current inhabitants of the MoparScape forums, what would you choose?
Interesting Question I guess I'd go with "Hallowed be thy name - Iron Maiden" because according to some the forums have been on death row for years.
That concludes this month's edition of the Mopar Monthly! The Mopar Monthly team would like to thank everyone who has taken the time to contribute to the first ever edition, and we are always welcome to more contributions. You can view the Mopar Monthly thread on the forums by clicking here. Interested in becoming an editor/writer? Contact Flame_ or Ambokile!
#####This edition of the Mopar Monthly was published by Flame_ and Ambokile, with help from the MoparScape administration