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What programmers font (monospaced!) do you like best?

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/08

Lucida Console Sample (thanks Wikimedia!)

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:

  • The captial O and digit 0 (zero) are very similar.
  • Some uppercase/lowercase character pairs are alike (because of the large x-height)

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:CcKkOoSsUuVvWwXxZz are much alike.

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 »

Type 1 fonts and Windows 7/Vista/XP: 2 ways for installing them

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/29

This works for Windows XP and Windows Vista too:

Wolfie2k6

Just tested out installing a few T1 fonts. There are two general rules for how to do this.

  1. Drag/drop both the PFM and PFB files (the INF and AFM files aren’t important nor needed) to C:\Windows\Fonts
  2. Open each font by clicking on the PFM and clicking the Install button at the top of the font preview window.

#2 is slower, but it works as well as any other with any font type that Windows 7 supports:

Note: If you drag/drop Type 1 fonts (PFB/PFM) to the Windows\Fonts folder, Windows 7 may complain when copying the PFB saying that it’s missing the PFM and that you should install using the PFM.

Either way – both methods work tho #2 is preferred when dealing with a T1 font.

–jeroen

via: Type 1 fonts and Windows 7.

Posted in Power User, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Windows 8 and Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts (via: Brian Long, a blong, blong, blong road…)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/26

Found a while ago that Brian Long wrote a few nice pages and posts on Windows keyboard shortcuts:

Thanks Brian

–jeroen

Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

psubst – Persistent SUBST command – Google Project Hosting

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/19

PSUBST:

Associates a path with a drive letter and extends the standard SUBST command allowing to create persistent substituted drives between startups.

It is the “maintained” version of scripts like these:

–jeroen

via: psubst – Persistent SUBST command – Google Project Hosting.

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 2 Comments »

Managing NTFS Junction Points from the commandline in Windows

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/15

Some interesting answers describing how to manage NTFS Junction Points from the commandline in Windows:

perl – How can I remove a Windows directory without following junction points? – Stack Overflow.

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

WaveSuffer: tool for sound visualisation and manimpulation

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/05

Interesting answer on SO, not only for developers:

You can check out the wavesurfer program:

WaveSurfer is an Open Source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. It has been designed to suit both novice and advanced users. WaveSurfer has a simple and logical user interface that provides functionality in an intuitive way and which can be adapted to different tasks. It can be used as a stand-alone tool for a wide range of tasks in speech research and education. Typical applications are speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription. WaveSurfer can also serve as a platform for more advanced/specialized applications. This is accomplished either through extending the WaveSurfer application with new custom plug-ins or by embedding WaveSurfer visualization components in other applications.

It can perform many different types of analysis, I have only used it for practicing Chinese tone pronunciation.

Thanks hlovdal!

–jeroen

via delphi – component or code for wave analyzer – Stack Overflow.

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

On my research list: mounting FTP or HTTP location as drive in Windows

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/01

Need to research this if it works for both FTP and HTTP: How can I mount an FTP to a drive letter in windows? – Server Fault.

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Why don’t the shortcuts I put in the CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES folder show up in the Favorites menu? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/25

Why Internet Explorer does not use these two for showing shortcuts:

  • CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES
  • %ALL­USERS­PROFILE%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

–jeroen

via: Why don’t the shortcuts I put in the CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES folder show up in the Favorites menu? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Reminder to Self: after installing the WebSphere MQ client software, reboot!

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/22

After installing the WebSphere MQ 7.x client software, you must reboot.

Otherwise the directory where mqic.dll resides doesn’t get added to the system path.

I was bitten by this with an unattended installation at a client where they forgot to have the system to reboot.

–jeroen

Posted in Development, MQ Message Queueing/Queuing, Power User, Software Development, WebSphere MQ, Windows | Leave a Comment »

TSListUsers: great little console tool to list Remote Desktop / Terminal Services Users

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/18

Thanks to Joe Klemencic, TSListUsers is a great little console tool that shows you the currently logged on users and which session they use:

List Terminal Services Users

TSListUsers is a command line utility to list both the currently connected and disconnected users, hostname, IP address and RDP session number on either the local or a remote Windows Terminal Server/RDP Server

To list the users, you need to have the following abilities:

  • NetBios access to the server
  • Permissions allowing you to Query RDP session information (if you can log into the TS, you should have this by default)
  • Terminal Services/RDP should be running on the target host

Usage:
TSListUsers.exe /? to get the Help text
TSListUsers.exe to query a target Terminal Server
TSListUsers.exe with no paramters to query the local host

You can download TSListUsers from here.

Example output of remote session:

C:\Windows>TSListUsers.exe
Active Connections:
Username, HostName(IP), SessID, RDP-Port
----------------------------------------
jeroenp, W701UJPL (192.168.71.34), 2, RDP-Tcp#92

Disconnected Connections:
Username, HostName, SessID
--------------------------

Example output of local session:

C:\Windows>TSListUsers.exe
Active Connections:
Username, HostName(IP), SessID, RDP-Port
----------------------------------------
jeroenp,  1, Console

Disconnected Connections:
Username, HostName, SessID
--------------------------

–jeroen

via List Terminal Services Users.

Posted in Power User, Remote Desktop Protocol/MSTSC/Terminal Services, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

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