Labs, Experiments, and Presentations

These are projects I did for fun. They may have been inspired by work, school, a friend, or an off-hand conversation. I tend to busy myself with small projects out of pure curiosity.

In Progress: I had many more projects posted on previous editions of my website, but I'm still migrating my labs to the new server.

Incidentally, this new website (created March, 2008) is a sort of lab as well. I created it in Visual Studio 2008, using C#, ASP.NET 3.5, AJAX, and Language Integrated Queries (LINQ). I love the flexibility and strong-typing in LINQ. :) This whole site is data-driven, and is hosted on Windows Server 2008, .NET 3.5, and SQL Server 2005.

Mandelbrot/Julia Sets
Created on Monday, May 06, 2002

Back in 2002, I explored Mandelbrot and Julia Set fractals as an exercise for learning java graphics programming. I wrote a small java application, including a class framework for building and rendering these and other, similar fractals. The GUI is dreadful, but the underlying classes are reasonably elegant for their time. Here is the code, executable jar, windows exe, and a brief article I wrote on the subject.

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PegBoard: A Delphi Run-Time Type Information (RTTI) Practical
Created on Monday, February 19, 2001

In early 2001, I was exploring practical applications for reflection technologies. I created this example to demonstrate how reflection could be a real time-saver for developers. I was shooting for a presentation that would be simple and entertaining, so I wrote this little game.

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