Folks who know me know that I've been going to school in the evenings on and off for a decade++.  I'm at Corillian by day (and sometimes at three in the morning!), but by night (T/Th/F 6-10) I'm usually in class.  Many a day I've ran from the airport straight to a lab - actually last week I ran from the launch event to class, with only 5 minutes to spare. 

Being the wonk I am, I usually look to integrate .NET into anything I do.  In my recent Group Dynamics class I gave a presentation about my intercultural experiences presenting .NET topics at TechEd Malaysia.  In my Operating Systems class, I was the only guy to write the Tiny Abstract OS using C#.

Anyway, I'm currently in the final term of Physics and Calculus. While the current topics are Electromagnetic fields, we're expected to turn in a final project of some kind.  Some folks are rolling cars down hills, or riding elevators, or playing with lasers.  However, when I think Physics, I think No-Touch Deployment WinForms, don't you?  I mean, who doesn't.  Our teacher oftens goes online and shows us all classes of Java Applets that demonstrate particle dynamics and various Physics concepts.  I noticed that she had no problem finding all the Java examples she needed, no doubt due to Java's deep entrenchment in academia. 

I decided to write up a little application that would solve a problem we worked on a lot last term.  If you take some amount of water of a certain temperature and some amount of ice at a certain temperature and put them together, some amount (or all of the) of ice melts and the water is left at a final temperature.  My little quickie app calculates all of the energy and heat involves and presents the results in a fairly dynamic way.  It should run in 1.0 and 1.1 and should launch out directly from the browser.  It certainly requires a little extra thought around issues like security.  While my IceMelter isn't as polished and cool as Wahoo! it was fun to write and helped me apply what I know (.NET) to something I don't (Physics). 

You can play with IceMelter if you like.