The revival of Microsoft's Font Validator

Hin-Tak Leung

Labs 2018

Donnerstag, 12 April 2018 | 15:00 | Nave

English

The revival of Microsoft's Font Validator

Hin-Tak Leung

Labs 2018 | Donnerstag, 12 April 2018 | 15:00 | Nave | English

Microsoft's Font Validator last saw a release in 2003. In 2015, Google persuaded Microsoft to release part of that code in an open-source-friendly license. I completed and filled the missing components and ported to Mac OS X and Linux, and released 2.1 in 2017. This talk will cover some of the lessons learned, and plans and ideas of moving forward.

Hin-Tak Leung

Engineer, Data Scientist

I was trained as a research physicist. I spent about a decade on research of superconducting materials and magnetic thin films, and another decade as data scientist working on genetics of auto-immune diseases and public healthcare. And a few years here and there working in the commercial IT/technology... Mehr lesen