Monday, 31 August 2009

Sunday, 30 August 2009

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

thinBasic 1.7.9.0 BETA

A new version of thinBasic has been released & can be downloaded from this thread on the thinBasic forum.

Thursday, 20 August 2009

Monday, 17 August 2009

Adblock Plus Problems

Recently I started having problems with my blog. My Spread Firefox & Thunderbird buttons weren't being displayed & after some searching I eventually discovered they were being blocked. I managed to solve the issue by hosting the images on my Wikispace.

Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Notebook Drive Enclosure

Recently my Vista Laptop overheated & the motherboard got damaged. So I removed the drive & brought an enclosure for it, so I can now access all my old documents. You can find out more here.


Wednesday, 5 August 2009

Modern Warfare 2

Nice Modern Warfare 2 countdown timer available to embed in webpages from here.

Sunday, 2 August 2009

PyOpenGL Segmentation Fault

A while back I posted in this thread on the Ubuntu Forums about a segmentation fault people were receiving when using the PyOpenGL module for Python.

Today however I found that a solution for the problem here.

If you call glutCreateWindow before glutInitDisplayMode the problem seems to go away.

Saturday, 1 August 2009

Learning Maths & Algorithms

Nice thread here on EAB about learning maths for programming.

Flipcode Archives

The Flipcode archives can still be found here.

Useful 3D Links

Here are some useful links on the subject of 3D computer graphics.
  • Rasterisation on Wikipedia here.
  • Sutherland-Hodgman clipping algorithm here.
  • Dot product on Wikipedia here.
  • Clipping at the OpenGL FAQ here.

Random Numbers in C

Thread here on the Ubuntu Forums containing useful information on the subject of generating random numbers in the C programming language.