Just like OpenGL and most rendering engines that I know of, WebGL has no builtin support for text rendering. And on top of that, I can’t use the approach we use in PointLine at the moment. PointLine gets the outlines for the characters from the Windows GDI. So I was looking for something cross platform. […]
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Is Windows 7 based on MS DOS?
Yesterday I copied an InstallAware Project on the Jenkins continuous integration server. The copy always failed to build while the original succeeded. They were really the same at this point, so WTF!!! In the InstallAware forum I found out that the path name was getting too long. Well, yes, the name of the copied jenkins […]
Helicopter flight around the Jungfrau
For my last birthday I got a helicopter flight, and now I wanted to make that flight before the gift certificate expires.Takeoff was in Gstegwiler near Interlaken, from where we slowly ascended passing the Männlichen to the Eiger north face. The ascend was with a constant 4 m/s climb rate, and I was not too […]