George Reese (computer programmer)
Encyclopedia
George Reese is an author
and developer of several Open Source
frameworks. George was born in Houston, Texas and attended Bates College where he majored in Philosophy. While in college he was program director of the local radio station, WRBC. He is currently CTO of enStratus
and founder of Valtira Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota
. He has a wife and two kids.
s, noted above, George Reese contributed significantly to the MUD
community by providing hosting for extensive MUD-related content through the Center for Imaginary Environments at imaginary.com (including the influential webzine Imaginary Realities
), as the custodian of the LPMud Timeline and LPMud FAQ, and as the lead developer of Nightmare LPMud
. His MUD pseudonym was Descartes of Borg, or simply Descartes, chosen because of his philosophy major in college. In March 2001, Reese withdrew precipitously from the MUD community, citing disillusionment with its adherence to outdated technologies and with the ethics of some of its members, and shut down the Center for Imaginary Environments.
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
and developer of several Open Source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
frameworks. George was born in Houston, Texas and attended Bates College where he majored in Philosophy. While in college he was program director of the local radio station, WRBC. He is currently CTO of enStratus
EnStratus
enStratus is a cloud infrastructure management platform from enStratus Networks LLC that addresses the governance issues associated with deploying systems in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The company was formed in 2008 as a spin-off out of Valtira and has its headquarters in Minneapolis, MN...
and founder of Valtira Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
. He has a wife and two kids.
Software
- The Nightmare MudlibNightmare MudlibThe Nightmare Mudlib is a set of LPC programming language frameworks created by George Reese for building multi-user role playing games using the MudOS LPMud driver...
for MudOSMudOSMudOS is a major family of LPMud server software, implementing its own variant of the LPC programming language. It first came into being on February 18, 1992. It pioneered important technical innovations in MUDs, including the network socket support that made InterMUD communications possible and... - The Dead Souls MudlibDead Souls MUDlibDead Souls is a MUD library , a software infrastructure for creating a text-based virtual world. It is classed in the following versions:* Dead Souls 1.1 was the final release by its original head developer, George Reese...
version 1.1 - mSQL-JDBCMSQL-JDBCmSQL-JDBC is an Open Source Type IV JDBC driver for the mSQL database engine created by George Reese. It is written 100% in the Java programming language and uses the native mSQL network protocols to talk to mSQL. The driver supports as much of the JDBC specification as the mSQL database will...
(aka Soul) JDBC driver for mSQLMSQLmSQL or Mini SQL is a historically important lightweight database management system from Hughes Technologies.-History:In 1993-94 David Hughes developed a network monitoring and management system called "Minerva". The design of this system required a database management system to store its... - The Meme internationalization API
- Dasein persistence frameworks
- Dasein Cloud
MUD contributions
Beyond the Nightmare and Dead Souls mudlibMudlib
A mudlib, short for mud library, is a library of code forming part of the technical infrastructure of a MUD. Though different varieties of MUD may be considered to have mudlibs, the term is most often used with LPMuds. In an LPMud, the mudlib consists of interpreted code written in the LPC...
s, noted above, George Reese contributed significantly to the MUD
MUD
A MUD , pronounced , is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, with the term usually referring to text-based instances of these. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat...
community by providing hosting for extensive MUD-related content through the Center for Imaginary Environments at imaginary.com (including the influential webzine Imaginary Realities
Imaginary Realities
Imaginary Realities was an influential MUD community online magazine running from September 1998 to December 2001. It was hosted under the auspices of George Reese's Center for Imaginary Environments at imaginary.com...
), as the custodian of the LPMud Timeline and LPMud FAQ, and as the lead developer of Nightmare LPMud
Nightmare LPMud
Nightmare LPMud, founded in 1992, was one of the oldest continually running LPMuds still played until its closure on September 12, 2005. Its roots go back to the original LPMud, Genesis LPMud, when Forlock of Genesis along with some students at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine founded Orlith in 1991...
. His MUD pseudonym was Descartes of Borg, or simply Descartes, chosen because of his philosophy major in college. In March 2001, Reese withdrew precipitously from the MUD community, citing disillusionment with its adherence to outdated technologies and with the ethics of some of its members, and shut down the Center for Imaginary Environments.