The CasperTech State of Affairs Ten years ago, when CasperVend was still in its infancy, someone came into my store and sent me an IM. He said, "I hope you never forget your roots, and that you
GDPR is coming, and it affects you The European General Data Protection Regulation will come into play on the 25th of May, 2018. It's the tightest set of privacy laws ever implemented, and if you do business in Second Life,
E2V closing its doors It's with great sadness that we hear that DavidThomas Scorbal has decided to retire the E2V vending system at the end of May. E2V was a high quality, well supported system used by
Missing transactions and off-site recovery Over the last few days, we've had issues with a series of short but frequent network micro-outages from OVH's vRack system, and we've invested in new equipment to ensure your service remains stable.
CasperVend at busy events - Event Vendors CasperVend is ubiquitous in Second Life. We power the majority of inworld vending, many tens of thousands of merchants depend on our services to sell their products. The CasperVend script has been proven
The Fall of an Empire Today is a sad day for some, and a frustrating day for many, as Hippo Technologies has finally bit the dust. Hippo's services (including HippoVend, HippoRent and HippoUpdate) were extremely well respected and
Avastar site hacked Avastar is an excellent Blender add-on for character creation and animation used by hundreds of creators in Second Life. We've been made aware that on the 4th of February, the Avastar website was
Copyright, Rights, and Backdrop City There has been an awful lot of drama in Second Life recently, and much of it has centered around Backdrop City. You see, someone had the bright idea of buying a whole bunch
A new architecture for a new year In early January 2018, we completed a huge refactoring project, Project Spectre, designed to modernise the architecture behind CasperVend and CasperLet. This project was commenced in June 2017, in response to an increasing
