Welcome to Perceptual Motion

Welcome to Perceptual Motion, aka robwhalley.co.uk. It contains some articles on Linux, cross platform development, and some links to open source software. I also use this site to display gallery images and other media.

Content is still being added. Slowly...

In the beginning

Originally, this site provided links to free software, which was the inspiration for the name 'Perceptual Motion'. The idea was to provide a resource of good quality free software. Hence, Perceptual Motion - changing perceptions by trying to encourage a move towards free software. I don't think I ever got the site how I wanted it...

Anyway, there's a lot of sites out there that do freeware lists much better than I could, so I decided it was time for a change. I still wanted to have a website that was at least partially based around computing, so it seemed logical to use this site to document some of the more esoteric bits of Linux knowledge I've acquired.

Shortly into its life the website also became home to a forum that was mostly centred around making modifications to a PC game called Morrowind. That forum moved home to Calislahn's website, but is no longer available.

Cut to somewhere in the South of England, present day

A usually hard-working Rob has managed to find some time off work... and has lamentably started to referring to himself in the third person.
The latest update has been mostly a code cleanup while switching to the NetBeans IDE. A new page on NetBeans setup for Fedora is here.

Plans for the future

The basic design of the website is now complete. I need to upload source code and binaries for a simple GTKmm timer I created, plus more articles on Linux. As yet, I haven't added any music or video onto the site, so that will be one of the next major updates I think.

Thanks for looking in on the site.

Rob.

Site last updated: 8th January 2010