What's up with me...and a tidbit about Visual Studio...
Friday, June 20 2008
Well, some logistical delays prevent me from leaving Washington and heading to Texas until July 8th. Basically, a one week delay in early June threw us right into the July 4th holiday rush season, and if we had tried to have our stuff packed/moved, we'd have paid a high premium. Sooo...we decided to wait until after the 4th of July holiday to head to Texas . On the bighter side, that gave me a little time to tinker away at some technical stuff. One thing I've never sharedis my own slightly quirky settings for Visual Studio. There's tons of color schemes and fonts out there, and you can really get lost in that stuff (and wind up not doing your real work :-). You can find several places that talk about color schemes, starting with Scott Henselman's cool overview of VS themes. I personally had two goals in mind when I picked my theme:
- The theme had to have good contrast between different logical parts (comments, string text, and code)
- The theme shouldn't differ too much from the default VS setup. If I needed to work on a system that didn't have my settings, I didn't want the differences to be so severe that it was visually distracting.
I settled with a variation of Jeff "Coding Horror" Atwood's theme, with some small variations and one big one -- the use of the Envy Code R monospaced font (kudos to Damien Guard for putting in the effort to make that font). The nice thing isthat his font uses italics instead of bold, giving a little more visual consistency from my perspective. Here's a simple screen cap to give you an idea. EDIT: Almost forgot to link to the theme so you can import it in VS 2008 -- here you go!
More to come later!
2 comment(s)
Zyxil, fixedsys or Lucida console are both great fonts, and I won't knock them (I use Lucide console when I can't add a font). I still like Envy Code R because I can quickly discern Os and 0s, as well as discern I, 1, and l. I agree, however, that your approach is the quick and esy way to reduce eyestrain :-)
Interesting setup, Dave.
I just turn the background light grey and set the font to fixedsys. Easy to remember, works on any computer, no installation or reboots, and all text editors take fixedsys, too.