Archive for 2012
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/06
While fooling around with Microsoft Surface, you are astonished with the number of fingers it supports: 10 is no problem on the Samsung SUR40 which can also do full HD resolution (more specs here).
Not so with the standard Windows 7 touch support: that has only 2.
As I want to increase that to better mimic the development environment to the actual environment a few notes:
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, Development, Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Software Development, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Tagged: 3m, computing hardware, development environment, fingers, gadgets, hd, microsoft, microsoft surface, pc hardware, real world, samsung, stack overflow, technology | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/06
Naar aanleiding van het nieuwsartikel Studentenbestand groeit fors was mijn vraag: en hoe is dat in de toekomst? Hangt dat niet heel sterk af van de geboortegolven en dalen van de afgelopen decennia?
Een antwoord op die vraag blijkt met een korte online research vrij lastig te staven.
Aan de ene kant is er een mooie grafiek van de geboorte golven en dalen van de afgelopen decennia in het stuk Demografie van de Vergrijzing uit 2011 van het CBS die zou hinten op een vrij grillig verloop. Aan de andere kant Bevolking: Wat zijn de belangrijkste verwachtingen voor de toekomst? op de site van het Nationaal Kompas die een veel gelijkmatiger ontwikkeling van deze leeftijdsgroep aangeeft.
Kennelijk zijn er dus meer krachten in het speelveld. Uiteraard het stijgende opleidingsniveau. Maar kennelijk moet er meer zijn.
Ik ben benieuwd of er iemand betere bronnen heeft kunnen vinden om hier wel een antwoord op te geven.
–jeroen
via: Studentenbestand groeit fors | nu.nl/binnenland | Het laatste nieuws het eerst op nu.nl.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/05
Chrome, Opera, etc are all rated as 17+ for “mature content” ans such by Apple.
So they think nobody with Safari will see any mature content?
What a laugh!
–jeroen
via: Is Apple Restricting Google Chrome For iOS Out Of Spite? | WebProNews.
Posted in iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Opinions, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/05
Until bugs in the link below get fixed, when using SvnBridge to talk SVN to TFS:
- don’t use non ASCII characters in your path names
- don’t use escapes
This include SVN usage on codeplex.
–jeroen
via: SvnBridge – Use TortoiseSVN with Team Foundation Server – View Discussion.
Posted in CodePlex, Development, Source Code Management, Subversion/SVN, TFS (Team Foundation System) | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/05
Wow, it feels like yesterday, but on the 5th of October 1992, the ThinkPad 700C saw the light.
My ThinkPad start was in 2000 with a ThinkPad A20p. After that, I almost exclusively used ThinkPad laptops ever since (with the exception of Apple specific equipment: I have been using MacBook Airs):
–jeroen
via ThinkPad – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/04
I saw julian Bucknall post some beautiful formatted functions in a few of his Algorithms for the masses blog and wondered how he did it.
[a = P . r^N . \frac { (1 – r) } { (1 – r^N) }]
Why is his formula code looking so simple, and why doesn’t it display on my blog?
So I asked him (:
Hi response was “use MathJax“:
I’m loading the MathJax JavaScript library in my pages:
http://www.mathjax.org/
Here’s the post where I talk about it and how I tweak the expressions:
http://blog.boyet.com/blog/blog/tightening-the-feedback-loop-when-writing-latex-expressions-for-mathjax/
If you want to experiment writing such expressions, I have the page I’m describing in the above post online:
http://blog.boyet.com/blog/files/uploads/MathJaxFeedback.html
There are various ways to include the MathJax JavaScript, and if you do, you can use both LaTeX and MathML style formulas. Read all about it on the MathJax Getting Started page.
–jeroen
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Posted in Development, HTML, Software Development, UI Design, Web Development | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/03
Jim Tierney isn’t on DelphiFeeds yet, so below are a few links to his great Delphi XE3 LiveBindings posts.
Jim is one of the people that developed LiveBindings. In addition to that, he explains things very well.
He did some great posts on LiveBindings after Delphi XE2 got launched (he also did two great presentations on Delphi Live 2011 and CodeRage 6 – they got repeated on the last 24 hours of Delphi).
Now he is publishing a series of posts on LiveBindings in Delphi XE3.
These posts are recommended reading, more are probably on their way:
–jeroen
via: Jim Tierney
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | Tagged: 24 hours, Delphi, design time, education, presentations, quotes, recommended reading, tierney | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/02
Portable Library Tools extension is a great tool for creating assemblies that run on a variety of .NET platforms without recompilation.
I hope a Visual Studio 11 version of it comes soon.
–jeroen
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