Getting involved in C# and the OpenSimulator project, I set about writing a viewer. This got me into Ogre, C# and many other pieces of code.

The LookingGlass viewer now has it's own web site at http://lookingglassviewer.org and the sources are available in the OpenSimulator Project Forge. That place also collects bugs, features and other project management.

Dynamic loading of resources in Ogre is an artform. After wrestling with it for several weeks, I wrote up my solution in Dynamic Loading of Ogre Resources.

PlanetLab is a global research platform for distributed service research. Once part of the network (universities and companies join by donating computers to the network), once can create virtual machines all over the world to develop and test new concepts in wildly distributed applications.

I wrote two and run one service on PlanetLab:

• Distributed Services Management Toolkit : which manages the creation of virtual machines and the installation of services on PlanetLab nodes. There is a SourceForge project to support the sources and bug reports and a web site with documentation and status. THIS SERVICE IS NOT OPERATIONAL
• Planetary Scale Event Propagation and Routing : which is a publish/subscribe, XML eventing system. Built for pluggable routing implementations (it's a research platform after all) is currently provides a simple 'channel' subscription mechanism. There is a SourceForge project to support the sources and bug reports and a web site with documentation and status.