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Easy JVM CPU profiling with WarmRoast 14 Jun 2013 | 07:58 am
Usually when my server starts acting up, I pull out a JVM CPU sampler like JVisualVM. I usually choose to remotely connect, but I can’t say that it’s ever that enjoyable. Last night, I decided to make...
WorldEdit selections for Bukkit plugins 16 Mar 2013 | 04:12 am
Here’s a quick guide to using the selection API for WorldEdit from a Bukkit plugin. A large part of WorldEdit uses an abstract internal API for easy portability For your convenience, we provide a Buk...
Mirroring your Minecraft server 11 Mar 2013 | 02:04 am
We moved our Minecraft server from Texas to Germany about a year ago, but we had to deal with the problem of the extra latency. It got worse when we found out that the data center’s connections had a ...
Improving your Minecraft server’s performance 4 Mar 2013 | 02:16 am
Sometimes running a Minecraft means struggling with server lag, and sometimes this struggle can be monumental. No one wants to play on a server where everything takes longer than it should, and it can...
Make the Steam web client compact 2 Mar 2013 | 02:12 am
Somewhere linked on Steam’s site is… Steam’s web chat client! I only came across it the other day, but it’s convenient when the Steam desktop client is insistent on freezing after 30 minutes of being ...
From GitHub, to Redmine, to YouTrack 1 Mar 2013 | 02:07 am
The first issue tracker (for reporting bugs and keeping track of issue requests) for WorldEdit, et al. was that provided of GitHub. Primarily tag-based, you could design how people would mark issues i...
Version control all the things 26 Feb 2013 | 04:17 am
Version control is practically essential to any software project, and it can be extremely useful even for your Minecraft server. What it does is simple: track any change, either large or small, knowin...
How Minecraft handles a disk gone full 21 Feb 2013 | 01:44 am
Recently, a Minecraft server I host used up all the disk space on its RAM drive, and consequently bad things resulted. The worst part is that my friend kept the server running for 8 hours afterwards. ...
Using my Minecraft launcher to pull custom updates 19 Feb 2013 | 01:25 pm
My custom Minecraft launcher has a function to auto-download custom packages (private mod packs for your friends or a server), but unfortunately it has historically required that the packages be signe...
Exploit code for the past Minecraft exploit 1 Aug 2012 | 12:45 pm
Not too long ago, there was a fairly severe login exploit concerning Minecraft that allowed anyone to impersonate someone else on any Minecraft server, without knowing any personal details about the p...
