Hoo boy... It turns out that the same horrible case of Attention Deficit Disorder that makes me have this burning need to Triple-box WOW has thrown me a loop.

Yes friends, I'm talking about the one thing that is possibly more addictive (for me) than Warcraft: writing code.

By job title, I'm a software engineer, but I always think of myself as "software janitor". This is because I tend to do the programming equivelent of "cleanup on aisle seven"

So, for the longest time, I have been poking at other people's addons, occasionally tweaking things for my own personal use/amusement. Well, when WOW had that major outage on Tuesday (the extended maintenance that made the game unavailable for the whole day, I just diverted all my WoW playing energy into starting my own addon.

It's called MultiTool.

The idea is that there are a lot of little things that can make the lives of us Multi Boxers a little easier: quest share/gossip cloning, auto repair, taxi following, automatic escort quest accepts, etc...

My approach has been to download addons that help out with these tasks, but as of late, I've been noticing that a lot of the creature comforts have been found at the cost of having lots of addons where I don't use most of the features, or where I don't like the implementation (for my use... not that they're bad addons, it's just personal choice), or worse, are really great, but are not being maintained anymore.

Long-story-short, I decided that I'd take a whack at making the addon taht I'd like... written using a well-supported framework that has a core philosophy of being fully embeddable and staying light-weight. Ok, actually, I thought I'd take a whack at converting Smurfy's MultiBoxer addon to be Ace3, but as I dug into the code, I realized it was using a lot of LibRock which has a (in my opinion) rather heavy footprint, and that Ace2 to Ace3 conversion would be kind of painful.

Oh, that wasn't short.

Right. So I made MultiTool.

It's currently only in Alpha which means that if you like the sounds of it, you'll have to download it from my curseforge site since Alpha releases don't syndicate here to Curse.

I'm actively using it for the Cancel Duels and Taxi follow features right now, and I plan on adding some of the other things that I find I can't live without.

Anyhow, I'm going back to leveling my three mains to 80, until I get distracted by wanting some new feature in my .. OOH SHINY! ~carrier lost~