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ClearType

Louis Haußknecht — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:55:00 GMT

One week ago I switched on ClearType on my desktop system. The system is a dual head system with one crt and one tft connected.

I never heard about ClearType before I got my Axim X5v PDA which has ClearType enabled by default. The reading experience on that device is very nice. Everything is very smooth.

Now I'm using ClearType on my desktop and this is my experience:

Reading E-Books is really great and you're not getting tired of reading many articles.
The desktop looks crappy. The Font of the icons is not suitable for cleartype. I have to mention, that I have a holiday picture as background image, but also with the plain blue background there are shadows around the text.
Coding with Visual Studio is fun and all the text here looks very nice and smooth too.
I have not noticed any performance loss on my machine.

I think I leave ClearType switched on if there are no negative site-effects.

What's your experience on ClearType?

.Net in Germany

Louis Haußknecht — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:03:00 GMT

It's 2005. We are in the year of .net 2.0.

Looking around and searching for new projects at http://www.gulp.de I noticed that

there are 110 open projects when entering "Java" as the keyword compared to only 18 projects with "C#".

For me as a consultant who is specialized on .net technology it is a very disappointing result.

Are the Germans so slow when it comes to new technologies such as .net, or are we just afraid of new things?

My first blog...

Louis Haußknecht — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 01:21:00 GMT

Well,

this is my first post in my own blog. Thanks to the guys at www.geekswithblogs.net for offering me the space.

As a developer and consultant I want to share my experience in building applications with .net technology. The main focus will be on developing software for mobile devices.

I started with .net in 2003. Hannes, a friend of mine, gave me a first introduction in Visual Studio .Net and C#. At that time I had Java know-how and learning C# was not that hard ;-).

Since then I was more and more enthusiastic in programming with the Microsoft .Net - Framework.

It was so joyful to port my last project from Java to .net that I never touched Java again!

So have fun with this blog and stay tuned for new posts!