Romain Guy's Blog: January 2006 Archive

Richard Bair and I have created a presentation entitled Desktop Java in Action for JavaPolis. I also presented this talk in Paris at Sun Microsystems. I recently made the slids of the talk available online but as every slide set, they lack a lot of information given by the speaker(s).

If you speak french, you are very lucky because Developpez, a french programming network, offers a video of the presentation online for free. The talk is 3 hours long but they did a great job by slicing it into more than 20 parts. Each part has a short description that will help you find your favorite topics.

If you do not speak french, don't worry, all JavaPolis talks will be available as videos within a couple of months.

NetBeans with anti aliasing

Posted by gfx on January 02, 2006 at 03:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (12)

I have Mustang as my primary VM for work and personal use. Yet I had to reinstall Tiger to be able to run NetBeans 5.0 beta2 properly because I kept getting a nasty exception regarding some XML things. Anyway, I couldn't use NB on Mustang, meaning I couldn't benefit from the subpixel anti aliasing. Hopefully, the NB guys told me today it is a bug in the JDK itself and it has been fixed in b61 so I installed a nightly build of Mustang b65 and it now works perfectly!

It looks so much better now! Unfortunately there is still a bug in Mustang's rasterizer which makes my favorite fixed width font (BitStream Vera Sans Mono free, GPL font) look really bad at small sizes.

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