Webmastering

Everyone seems to enjoy speaking about themselves, so I figure I will jump on this bandwagon and tell you a little about myself. Perhaps I will talk more about real life in a future post, but for now, I would like to share the history of my internet life.

I am currently known as metziel (previously whitenights, Vitrix, meridius, or abael) and I am Stencyl’s server administrator, webmaster, and lead web programmer. I work here on Stencyl because of Eliwood, who I have known for about 5 years (?) now. Eliwood and I have known each other since the days of Warcraft III map-making, or as I prefer to call it, “the good ol’ days.” Eliwood was one of my main inspirations to pick up programming, and helped me along in those early days, programming for a very minor WC3 site. When Eliwood disappeared from the WC3 scene to work on projects for The Gaming Universe, namely GUReporter, I too quickly left WC3 and went to try to learn more about programming.

One of my main projects after that was a relatively minor World of Warcraft fansite, where I have programmed a number of small hacks as well as a full site to help them out. That site has been going downhill recently, because of time constraints on all the staff members. I need to thank the administrators there, however, since they are very cool people and have helped me grow as a site administrator and shown me what it is like to work hard on something you love. They also have given me a number of solid server recommendations, and it is because of their recommendation that Stencyl runs on the server it does today.

I got involved with Stencyl because of my connection to Eliwood back from WC3 and GUReporter. Eliwood basically sent me an email saying “hey, talk to me on MSN” and I said something like “sounds cool.” After he told me about the project, I said “sounds cool,” and offered to host Stencyl properly, on a dedicated server. I don’t know if that was his original intent behind inviting me, but here we are. I am also the primary coder behind Stencyl’s web resources, though you see very little of my work right now.

Outside of Stencyl, I enjoy soccer (and indoor soccer), the TV shows Heroes and 24, being 16 and doing all that entails, and of course, I love my dog Titan (picture coming soon.)

I’m always busy, either working on Stencyl, schoolwork, or coding tasks for my school. Literally, I don’t think I get a moment’s rest. If I do, I know it’s because I’m doing something wrong =)

In the future, I look forward to Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, and anything else that Blizzard Entertainment creates. Of course, I am also 100% behind Stencyl for the future.

I recently finished what I know to be the initial work for setting up StencylBlogs. Tell me if you see any issues.

Comments are disabled on all blogs because I decided I wanted to consolidate discussion into the forums instead of having to monkey around with both WordPress comments and forum discussions; if this is an unpopular decision, I can always reverse it.

Update (Feb 21): Decision reversed. I will keep my blog as no-comments, since I don’t see the need.