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Archive for August, 2011

Speaking at DelphiLive! 2011 in San Jose, CA, USA from September 12th to 14th 2011

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/04

I’ll be speaking at a few conferences this fall.

The furthest for me will be DelphiLive! 2011 in San Jose, CA, which will be held from September 12th to 14th (slightly more than a month from now).

Note that if you want to come, the early bird discount is until augusts 15!

Part of the sessions and speakers lists are already published, but it will be extended shortly (some nice Delphi XE2 sessions are in the pipeline), followed by a workshop tutorials list, and agenda.

My sessions are going to be these:

Not everything for those sessions is set in stone yet, so if you have ideas for things I should include, exclude, emphasize or understate, please let me know.

I’m looking forward to meet (often again!) a lot of attendees and speakers.

The social part of conferences is very important too.
Last year, after the conference, a few speakers, attendees and other people had a marvelous steak dinner. Great fun!

Hope to see a few of my blog readers at one conference or the other.

–jeroen

PS: Like last year, the conference will be held at Crowne Plaza Hotel San Jose Downtown, 282 Almaden Boulevard, San Jose, CA 95113, USA (it has a special room rate of USD 139 per night for conference attendees).

PS2: Some more events will follow shortly.

Posted in Conferences, Delphi, DelphiLive, Development, Event, Software Development | 1 Comment »

Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/03

On my research list: Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Text displayed in some core fonts appears blurred in Internet Explorer 9 on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/02

Right now there are so many ways to display text, that – depending on your physical display (CRT, LCD, etc) – all behave differently.

Even Microsoft has released a patch (see the below quote from KB 2545698 that got released last month).

This issue occurs because of a design change to how Internet Explorer 9 renders text. By default, Internet Explorer 9 uses sub-pixel positioned ClearType to render text by using DirectWrite, whereas Internet Explorer 8 uses whole-pixel positioned ClearType to render text by using the Microsoft Windows graphics device interface (GDI).

I’m wondering if there is a way to make it work ‘right’ on every type of display combination.

Do you know any?

–jeroen

via Text displayed in some core fonts appears blurred in Internet Explorer 9 on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2.

Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, Font, Power User, Software Development | 5 Comments »

Reading list: Version Control by Example

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/01

Great stuff to read: Version Control by Example by Eric Sink of SourceGear and Spyglass fame.

–jeroen

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

Portable PowerShell – ShellTools

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/01

As a contractor, it is far easier to have your tools with you on a USB stick, than to depend on software distribution mechanisms or installation policies at clients.

Hence I like the Portable PowerShell from ShellTools: a way to run (side-by-side!) various versions of PowerShell from a USB stick.

–jeroen

Posted in CommandLine, Power User, PowerShell | Leave a Comment »