George Lantz

I downloaded and ran the latest released version of the WWJ SDK available for download at the World Wind Java site - 20070817. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the 2D location map and the distance meter added to the window by default. Cool less that I have to do. I was thinking of doing a tutorial on how to add those things.

Also, I should add that if you want to find even later releases and release announcements head over to the forum http://forum.worldwindcentral.com/forumdisplay.php?f=43. This will have the latest releases for you to try out. Read the rest of this entry »

So, I was having a rough day today. I won't get into that, but my spirits where cheered a little when I saw the article I contributed to the NetBeans Wiki, on the NetBeans Welcome Screen. Read the rest of this entry »

Last week at the VMworld 2007 in San Fransisco, VMWare announced that they have released the majority of the VMWare tools for Linux as open source software. Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) is hosted at http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net, and the source code is available for download. This will allow Linux vendors to integrate VMware Tools into upcoming versions of the Linux operating system distributions. This helps make Linux a more stable virtualization platform and will simplify deploying of guest operating systems. Because of this exciting announcment I would like to talk a bit about virtualization on Linux. Read the rest of this entry »

Programmer's day is a whimsical "holiday" on the 256th day of the year celebrated mostly by computer programmers (reason: 256 = 2 to the power of 8 = the number of values representable in a byte of data). Traditions include drinking, behaving silly, coding silly programs, mini computer games, playing with old computers, etc. Programmer's day usually falls on September 13th; on leap years, it is September 12th.

Yesterday I downloaded the NetBeans 6.0 M10 release. I was mainly interested in how it would preform as a Ruby on Rails Editor. Well, 2 words, I frickin' love it! Ok, that was four words but, but in my opinion it is that good. Read the rest of this entry »

In this tutorial I will explain how I managed to access MySQL through SSH tunnel in my .NET application. This could come in handy for many reasons and is not limited to just MySQL. You could potentially tunnel almost any remote server daemon running behind a firewall. I originally created this technique for a Windows Desktop application so I could sync our company website inventory with the ERP software. For security reasons I only left the SSH and Apache ports open when I originally setup the web server. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, I am still slowly coming along on nomadexplorers.com, it's been a LOT of work and it's far from finished. Sometimes I wish there where more of me so I could help myself get it done. Anyway, I encourage you to go there and signup and try out posting new content. It's still very rough around the edges but it's coming along. Maybe you have some suggestions? If so feel free to comment below, in fact please do! There are some new updates going up in the next couple days, like the weather below the map will be formatted nicely and you will be able to download the map in GPX format, finally! I also am working on, (more like getting sidetracked with), maps in 3D. I am going to let that be a surprise since it's still experimental, check back soon though.

In this article we will look at how polylines can be added to World Wind Java SDK. Polylines are used to represent routes or tracks on your map. A polyline is made up of a list of point coordinates and a line is drawn between each point to create the full polyline. There are actually two different types of Polylines in WWJ. We will take a look at both of them. Note: this tutorial is just to get you pointed in the right direction. There are probably much more efficient ways of handling this. This is just a starting place. Read the rest of this entry »