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In my last post I mentioned I was having issue with remembering the order to draw vertices for quads. Ha… the light came on tonight while I was working on the various tutorials I’ve come across. The bottom and back faces of a cube I am actually drawing the quad from the perspective of viewing [...]

In the last two days I have blown the dust film off of the old C++ compiler and jumped back into the world of graphic programming in OpenGL. I have maintained a fantasy for many years now of getting into game programming. Being such a fascinating and challenging area of development, as well as the [...]

So I was presented with a task today of extracting images that were stored in a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database and save them as JPEG files. Here is a bit of code that will do this. In this code sample I am assuming domain authenticated SQL login. The table name here will be called [...]

In an effort to support removable media devices in SyncXpress I’ve had to do a bit of learning about WMI in .NET. It is actually quite cool how much information you can get from WMI about ANY piece of hardware attached to your system, and even INSIDE your system. So in my case I want [...]