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OpenGL / Mesa3D programming in Visual Studio

Update: You will need to move the various .dll files into your project folder so they are in the path of the application, otherwise you will get missing DLL errors.
I am currently taking the Computer Graphics and Visualisation module at university and it require writing some programs in C using OpenGL / Mesa3D. Unfortunately the [...]

Work has been stopped on RedKite

Today i decided to stop work on RedKite, for a few reasons:

I found a client called sobees which does pretty much everything i wanted out of RedKite
I have plenty of other projects i am working on
RedKite requires a lot more work to get it to the Quality of sobees.

I am slightly saddened by this, but [...]

Improvements to Windows 7

(just a quick note, i wrote this quickly, so there may be mistakes, and badly worded bits, so please tell me so i can update it)
I have been using Windows, and Windows 7 for a long time now, but like any operating system it has flaws and problems.
Problem 1 – Upgrading
The biggest problem that some [...]

Update on RedKite. The road to 0.20

I have been working on RedKite for the past few days and am making some headway towards version 0.2
Here’s the latest Screenshot of it

It still desires a fair amount of work in the UI department, but i have decided to concentrate on functionality until i can find a good design for the UI, or someone [...]

My Theme (using images from Bing)

I was recently using this theme which is based on a RSS of the images used on Bing worldwide.
And i was looking at one particular image of Dartmoor (Devon, UK) and thought it fitted in nicely. So here it is all packaged up for you to use.
Bing Based Theme
Screen Shot:

Note i am [...]