It’s a sad state of business when you need to proclaim as a distinctive quality of your company
“We show up” as one of the reasons for hiring/contracting their services.
Month / June 2009
Finally! Some WPF Text features that should have been in V1 (3.0)
Highlights:
- A Bindable run. No more crazy solutions to getting a block of text to support binding without a hack!
- LayoutRounding. Objects will be placed on pixel boundaries – less blur!
- Text clarity improvements. Smaller fonts can be rendered and still be readable!
- Caret and Selection Brushes exposed! Now you can fully skin even a text box without worrying about whether it will be usable on all systems.
Yet another interesting blog to read…
if you’re into systems, performance, troubleshooting, etc. of Windows, check out the AskPerf blog on Technet.
An innovative kitchen scale … how cool!
Oxo Good Grips Food Scale with Pull-Out Display
I’ll be honest, but I don’t own one of those yet. Our digital scale is functional, but not nearly as fun or useful as this awesome scale from Oxo. I saw it reviewed recently on America’s Test Kitchen last week and nearly walked over to our existing scale and accidentally knocked it into the garbage (whoops!). Amazon has it for $49 and it’s gotten awesome reviews. (49 people have given it nearly a perfect 5.0 rating!). As soon as our digital scale needs replacement (or a little earlier than that!), this is the scale I’ll buy (or an even better version!)
If you don’t see what’s cool about this – it’s the fact that you can actually read the measurement even with a large plate sitting on top of the scale! Oxo has some cool products – you can tell their designers actually think about how people cook, and how just repeating what other companies are doing often isn’t the right answer.
Back to (un)regularly scheduled blogging.
