Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/09
From the century start era of The Pragmatic Bookshelf | The Pragmatic Programmer, a – still valid – list of Pragmatic Software Development Tips.
From Care About Your Craft, via DRY, Some Things Are Better Done than Described, Keep Knowledge in Plain Text, Work With a User to Think Like a User, Find the Box, and many others till Sign Your Work.
–jeroen
via: The Pragmatic Bookshelf | List of Tips.
Posted in .NET, C++, Cloud Development, COBOL, CommandLine, Delphi, Development, Fortran, iSeries, Java, Pascal, RegEx, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development, xCode/Mac/iPad/iPhone/iOS/cocoa | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/08
Lucida Console Sample (thanks Wikimedia!)
I’m in search to see if there is a better programmers font than the monospaced Lucida Console mainly to be used in Visual Studio, Delphi, the Windows console, Xcode and Eclipse. What I love about Lucida Console design is the relatively large x-height combined with a small leading (often called “line height”). This combines very readable text, and a lot of code lines in view. Lucida has two small drawbacks, see the second image at the right:
But, since the font hasn’t been updated for a very long time, lots of Unicode code points that are now in current fonts, are missing from Lucida Console (unless you buy the [Wayback] most recent version that has 666 characters from Fonts.com) Well, there are dozens of monospaced fonts around, so I wonder: which ones do you like? In the mean while, I’m going to do some experimenting with fonts mentioned in these lists:
A few fonts I’m considering (I only want scalable fonts, so raster .fon files are out):
I have tried Adobe Source Code Pro about half a year ago. That didn’t cut it: problem with italics in Delphi, and not enough lines per screen. [Wayback] New Open Source monospaced font from Adobe: Source Code Pro.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, Adobe Source Code Pro, Apple, Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi XE3, Development, Encoding, Font, Lucida Console, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Programmers Font, Software Development, Typography, Unicode, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows XP, xCode/Mac/iPad/iPhone/iOS/cocoa | 43 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/07
It is such a pity that StackOverflow is not the place any more for questions like these:
c# – What’s the hardest or most misunderstood aspect of LINQ? – Stack Overflow.
These questions and answers historically got me most of the insight from SO.
Alas, no more.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/02
for my link archive:
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, C#, Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, Software Development | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/30
Precision Computing is a site by Lee Holmes having a great blog with PowerShell tips. Of course he does, as he is part of the PowerShell team and he wrote Windows PowerShell Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Scripting Microsoft’s New Command Shell.
The Counting Lines of Source Code in PowerShell entry is on counting C# code lines (and shows some great performance optimization tips).
I knew about the blog, and bumped into the entry because of file – Lines-of-code counting for many C# solutions – Stack Overflow.
Last year I inherited a suite of .NET projects totaling about 4 million LOC. Which I want to drastically reduce to make it more maintainable.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, C#, C# 1.0, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, CommandLine, Development, PowerShell, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/23
You might think the below question on CodePage zero is Delphi related, but most of it is not.
It is about CP_ACP (the currently Active CodePage, and has some interesting observations:
CP_ACP is the major reason people have difficulties exchanging the data in text files between applications on different computers.
Oh and you can get the actual value of the active Active CodePage using GetACP, but CP_ACP isn’t always slower..
–jeroen
via: delphi – What is Codepage 0? – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/18
Link clearance, mostly centered around “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Ports” and “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices“:
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, Software Development | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/16
Just in case you missed it too:
Xamarin Studio is MonoDevelop plus a set of add-ins. Those add-ins provide the required functionality for working with Android and iOS projects, and integrate some Xamarin services such as the Component Store.
The development of MonoDevelop will continue like it has been in the past. All the improvements which are not related to Xamarin’s commercial offerings will be done in MonoDevelop, and we have plans for a lot of them: code analysis, version control, debugger, etc. We are committed to keep evolving MonoDevelop, because a better MonoDevelop means a better Xamarin Studio.
MonoDevelop will also keep working on Linux. There may be some rough edges with MonoDevelop 4.0 on Linux, since for this release we put our focus on Mac and Windows, since that’s what Xamarin’s customers use. So if you find any problems please file bugs!
–jeroen
via: [MonoDevelop] MonoDevelop and Xamarin Studio.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/16
So I won’t forget to research this:
Somehow this occurs with Excel and the .NET app only having a few dozen megabytes of memory in use, so the cause must be something a lot more simple than “out of memory”.
It is a complex export, but I might just be able to get this going using ADO.NET, and make sure it is not a 60+k rows or 60+k characters issue.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, .NET 4.0, C#, C# 4.0, Development, Excel, Office, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio 2010, WinForms | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/11
A small duh moment when I found this out myself the hard way: when repeatedly drawing anti-aliased text, it will alter the background on each draw.
So you cannot do that. Not in Delphi, not in .NET, not in Cocoa, nowhere (:
–jeroen
via: delphi – “Additive” text rendering on TCanvas? – Stack Overflow.
Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, Software Development, User Experience (ux), WinForms, WPF, XNA | 7 Comments »
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