For a while I have attempted to create a website for Second Life and cannot, for the life of me, ever complete any project.  I had started using Open-Realty, which is a free real estate based CMS for people or agents to post their content for public viewing.  However, as always, I figured I could bend this monstrosity of a web application to my will, which, to a few months ago, went well.  The thing is, my windows based machine was dual-booting with Fedora 10 so I could test my changes locally.  While this was great for me to test on the road, it was a pain, and windows kept getting sick of it and puking blue screens on a weekly and sometimes daily basis.

Windows and Dual-Booting

After a series of hard reboots, windows finally gave up and died, forcing me to re-install, Vista by the way.  For those of you that have never dual-booted a machine before, this created a sort of software nightmare.  By dual-booting a system, you have to install a boot loader, sometimes GRUB, and there may be others.  By default, GRUB is installed during the Linux OS installation process.  By re-installing windows, I removed the boot loader.   A few days back, I re-installed Fedora 10 seeing as I had a few hours on my hands, accidentally removing my linux partition that was still sitting there, therefore deleting all previous work on VirtualLand.org, approximately two weeks.

Make Backups

Thankfully I had a backup on the website, which I didn’t find out until today.  I have since downloaded the last version I began with, a few weeks prior to the final alterations prior to the windows crash, and began work on VirtualLand again.  I am also re-thinking the actual money scheme from another perspective.

How to pay for listings?

Previously I was thinking of integrating a system whereas the user would pay a box and have an account balance and available credits displayed.  By providing a user with other means to pay on a per-listing basis, such as buy one box per listing, this allows me to focus on less strenuous coding and not require me to create an extensive plugin.