Q. What Plugins have you developed and what do they do?
A. I have written many plugins, there are actually too many to list and describe.

My main plugins were;
Arcane Knowledge
Arcane Knowledge 2
Exception.

I also made some component and inventory sorting programs in VB after I made the original Arcane Knowledge. As many of you know, I am also one of the primary Decal developers, so I do most of the work on Decal itself. I am also the only one writing code for the new rendering system, but the main branch does get commits from other programmers such as Gouru, GKusnick, Paradoxlost, Mekle, and Drakier (once in a while). Mekle and Paradoxlost concentrate mostly on Decal.Adapter, the .NET 2.0 component of Decal. Drakier does most of his work on programs external to Decal, but these programs help us keep the monthly maintenance down. He is the reason you guys get monthly updates so quick.

Q. What was/is the 1st Plugin/3rd party Application you programmed?
A. Arcane Knowledge

Q. What inspired you to write it/them?
A. In game split pea was the original motivation. However, I did not have the split pea source, and I did have the spilt beans source, so I used that, which ended up making Arcane Knowledge just a spoiler list for spells, which of course was very useful.

Q. What was the biggest obstacle you had/have to overcome in writing your Plugins/3rd party Applications?
A. Believe it or not, dealing with user is actually the biggest obstacle I've had in developing Decal and plugins for it.

Q. What is your favorite language to program in?
A. C++/CLI, then C++.

Q. How long have you been programming in general/with Decal Applications?
A. Entirely too long. I am one of the original Plugin developers. I think 2001?

Q. Have you felt the overall contribution of the decal programming community has been positive on the game?
A. Yes.

Q. What Plugins/3rd party Application other than your own, do you use?
A. I use the following plugins;
Alinco
GoArrow
AgentZ.

Q. What can we look forward to in upcoming versions of your Plugins/3rd party Applications?
A. It is the end of the school semester so there is not much going on. I am writing a shopping Plugin that should be interesting, and the next version of Decal that should be out shortly will have MANY interesting features I think a number of Plugin developers will find useful. I am also probably going to make a "light" version of Exception that will have the most popular features of that Plugin since I have not had time to update it and it is a rather large time investment to do so.

Q. Do you still play AC and if so what Server/s do you frequent?
A. The Wintersebb server.

Q. What is your favorite Plugin/3rd party Application that you have written?
A. I really like Exception and I think it adds a lot of dynamicism to not have to watch the chat window to what is going on in combat. I miss it. I also like ArrowCam, I should update that.