Bull's Rambles

NASA World Wind wins NASA Software of the Year award

bullsworld2007 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:14:59 +0000

At long last NASA has given credit to World Wind, Patrick Hogan, Project Manager for World Wind at NASA Ames, has just let me know that NASA has awarded this years Software of the Year award to NASA World Wind. Details are posted on the community run forum at WorldWind Central, Patrick goes on to thank [...]

Quick and dirty xml for World Wind .NET

bullsworld2007 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:06:16 +0000

I was reading the forum at last and came across someone mentioning Danish imagery in World Wind Java, this seemed a bit unfair to .NET users so I downloaded the WWJ SDK and converted the data from Scankort to a .NET xml, I also included the California NAIP (slow speeds) and open street map layers. Download [...]

Virgin Media fail

bullsworld2007 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:31:24 +0000

For the past couple of days I have been having problems with my internet connection dropping, the only solution being to do multiple reboots of the Modem. At first I obviously thought it was something I had done, I had updated my Tomato firmware to a newer version (Teddy Bear Mod), but I couldn’t spot anything [...]

Minor redesign

bullsworld2007 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:10:22 +0000

I have updated the welcome page text and made it the sites entry page, the aim is to make it more friendly and easier to use for new users, the blog posts will now appear at http://www.bullsworld.net/posts/ so current users may want to update their bookmarks, hopefully the RSS feed will automatically update. Any comments are [...]

YouTube updates

bullsworld2007 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:14:22 +0000

I have moved the World Wind video channel across to the new beta channel, or YouTube 2.0 as they call it, I know a lot of people don’t like the new layout but I kind of do, although more customization options would be nice, while I was at it I pruned the World Wind group, [...]

NASA World Wind Server downtime this weekend

bullsworld2007 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:46:46 +0000

The NASA World Wind Servers will be down for maintenance this weekend, this means unless you have your data cached locally you won’t get any imagery, for .NET you will also experience long load times and possibly no toolbar, for Java apps I’m not quite sure what problems will occur. The WorldWind Central server [...]

NASA World Wind Server Maintenance

bullsworld2007 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:18:54 +0000

I just got an email from Patrick Hogan letting me know some NASA World Wind servers will be down between Friday Aug 7th afternoon (PST) and Sunday Aug 9th midnight, this may or may not have any affect on World Wind, but if it goes slow or you get strange errors please be patient. [...]

Some new World Wind Java videos

bullsworld2007 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:12:53 +0000

Thanks to SchoeningJohannes for giving me links to these cool NASA World Wind Java videos, I have added them to the World Wind YouTube group, so have a look and enjoy. The Risk game is pretty neat, but my favourite is the use of multi touch combined with a Wii fit board for navigation combined with [...]

Race across America World Wind Java applet

bullsworld2007 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:19:17 +0000

The Gaea+ team have created a World Wind Java applet which displays the route of the Race across America, as well as the route the applet shows location details on mouse over and competitor locations. A pretty slick implementation and the first time I have seen a World Wind Java applet that does this, World Wind [...]

Upgrading blog to wordpress 2.8

bullsworld2007 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:54:32 +0000

I am just about to update wordpress so there may be some breakage, vidahost has automatic off-site backups so if the site breaks I can easily revert it. Edit: All done.