by Bruce | Feb 6, 2010 | General
I am trying to spend the early hours of Saturday morning experimenting and learning about something that interests me, with the only requirement being that is has no immediate practical value other than learning (i.e. it is not linked to work or other side...
by Bruce | Feb 5, 2010 | General
If you have been following along with Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, then you know we have described basically what the IFS Fractal “quest” is, how we did the rotatation/translation/scale transforms, and how we wired up the MessageBus to send our messages. Complete Code...
by Bruce | Feb 5, 2010 | General
We are almost done with this application. What started with Part 1 (intro to Fractals and the Silverlight experiment) and continued with Part 2 (creating the IFSContentControl) now gets a MessageBus to help communicate to and from the different controls The...
by Bruce | Feb 2, 2010 | General
Now that we have the idea of what IFS Fractals are from Part 1, we can move on to automating these iterations via code. Our first step is to encapsulate what an IFS Transform is. public class IFSTransform { public double ScaleX { get; set; } public double ScaleY...
by Bruce | Feb 1, 2010 | Development, Things that make me think
At the CodeMash conference this year many things stuck with me, and two have been bugging me enough to do something about them this last weekend. One was the idea that programmers need to practice and refine their skills, which was probably best described in the...