If you haven’t discovered the fantastic voice of ??? yet, may be it’s time now. http://bit.ly/8JfUM # @Damir Wow, Katharinensteg – das ist ja 200 Meter entfernt von wo ich lebe! in reply to Damir # Silverlight: Setting IsHitTestVisible to true makes the control also invisible for VisualTreeHelper.FindElementsInHostCoordinates. Huh? # SECURITY DISASTER: Thousands of Hotmail …
Author Archives: MaximFridental
1980
USSR in 1980 was a funny place. By this time, only a minority had really believed in communism, but many ”simple” people had nevertheless thought that their life was still better than life standard of the most other nations. After all, soviet people had a guaranteed job (in fact, everyone has been even REQUIRED to have a job; those …
This Week in Twitter
translationparty.com is fun. Tried it with "If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass" # What a cool gadget http://j.mp/q3KRw # http://twitpic.com/iumtm – 22 Centigree and sunny today – not bad for September 23 in Germany # Developing DRM solutions at work, …
The math behind MultiScaleImage.ZoomAboutLogicalPoint
Developing a Silverlight DeepZoom app, I needed to reimplement MultiScaleImage.ZoomAboutLogicalPoint method in terms of changing ViewportWidth and ViewportOrigin, and this is what code I’ve ended with: public void ZoomAboutPoint(double newScale, Point scalePoint) { double newViewportWidth = _currentViewportWidth / newScale; Point centerPoint = new Point(scalePoint.X / this.ActualWidth, scalePoint.Y / this.ActualHeight); double aboutLogicalPointFactor = _currentViewportWidth – newViewportWidth; Point newViewportOrigin = …
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Fireworks
A little more impressions from the Pyronale in Berlin. This was my first time I saw fireworks live. Well, of course I saw and even did myself the ordinary New Year fireworks. And I’ve also seen some professional fireworks, but from a greater distance. But this time, I was so close. And it was WOW. …
Yeah. Life.
I like the saying of my close friend that goes “????? ?? ???????, ?? ??????? ?????????”. It is hard for me to translate, but it is something along the lines “I’ve wasted [one more] try to live by spoiling it from the very beginning”. On the other hand, they say “????? ??????, ?? ?? ? …
This week in Twitter
The dentist couldn’t help but laugh out loudly looking at me trying my usual smile after a huge dose of anesthesia http://j.mp/RFDjd Intel has implemented Smooth Streaming for netbooks http://j.mp/13DCIq http://gizmodo.com/5366263 via @XaocCPS: interesting. Sharp has always been my favorite trademark in consumer electronics. Developing DRM solutions at work, isn’t it ironic that the Pirate …
Reorg
Originally, I intended to mix personal and public posts in this blog. After all, I am a single person, and my personal feelings are more or less geeky, and my geek posts are more or less personal. But I was reflecting about a huge imbalance of personal posts I did recently, so I’ve decided to …
This Week in Twitter
Some day, all social networks will merge into the single Peoplenet. Until there, we need profile pages like http://hi.im/fridental. # Does NYC smog consist from marijuana? ;) http://j.mp/iu99r (via @rands) And seriously: I envy people whose craziness looks so noble. # In Web2.0, even the bank account balance is shared to friends: http://whf.me/fridental # HANA-BI …
This Week in Twitter
Berlin, Pyronale'09 last weekend: huge, mind blowing and captivating. Poland owns my heart: http://j.mp/G303x (but better to see live!) # Guten Morgen: etwas feiner Musik aus James Stone seinem roten iPod… http://j.mp/1hnXmU # Future now: http://bit.ly/Xysur # Microsoft will port DirectX and some other tech from Windows 7 back to Vista: http://j.mp/269TV (via @XaocCPS) # …