Someone has done no small amount of determining what the code within the minecraft_server.jar does and how you can inject hooks into it. I have forked that git repository and am trying to organize it a bit better. Possibly make it truly into just a plugin framework and nothing else.

I’m hoping that this will be useful to others and that it all won’t horribly break when the server is changed on the 31st. Otherwise, all the really awesome administrative abilities will be horribly broken. Another really awesome thing would be if Notch were to have a plugin API ready to go. Perhaps based on the work that the community is doing.

As it appears, joomla has poor user control. There’s no granulation. So the website I’m working on for my corporation in Eve Online isn’t going to work in joomla. Mostly I need something simple to manage content. A Content Management System as it were. Joomla isn’t going to cut it. It’ll do for now, until I can find something else to manage the content.

My requirements aren’t horrible.

• Blogging type stuff – to allow corp members, who feel so inclined to post articles about their excapades
• News type stuff -  to allow the corporation to post news entries for things that happen corp wide
• Calendar type thinger – to allow the corporation to post events and/or due dates. I think this is probably very important because we need to be able to have deadlines posted somewhere easy for everyone to access. Helping to ensure that we don’t default on any corporation contracts.
• Static Document management – To hold things like the Corporate bylaws (once I figure out how to write bylaws) and other official corporate documents
• User management – I need at least the ability to moderate users to the site. And then a bit of permissions management within the site, so that not everyone can create events, post news, or muck with the corporate documents.

So the requirements for the site aren’t too strenuous, but joomla fails miserably regarding the user management. Which pretty much breaks the entire thing.

Drupal might do it, but I’ve read that drupal is quite complex. I don’t particularly want to roll my own CMS, as there’s already plenty out there, and my goal isn’t to build a CMS, the goal is to build the content, which is going to be difficult enough.

It’s a space based game, you can be a pirate if you want to! Or be a miner, a business man, or a warrior. You can PvP, or not. There’s a lot of things to do. Lots and lots of skills.

Yep there goes all my free time.