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I was really hoping for stuff that makes you more effective at coding while on the road. I find my productivity takes a serious hit when I'm moved from my 27" monitor +12" laptop screen to just my laptop screen. Any suggestions for this?
If you have the space, moving any reference querying over to a tablet (iPad, etc) is one trick I use. Actually, the biggest use for my iPad is as a reference book.
I was really hoping for stuff that makes you more effective at coding while on the road. I find my productivity takes a serious hit when I'm moved from my 27" monitor +12" laptop screen to just my laptop screen. Any suggestions for this?
On my 11" Air, it gives me 225 columns and 65 rows of text in a terminal: http://geoff.greer.fm/images/Screen%20Shot%202014-01-05%20at...
I was really hoping for stuff that makes you more effective at coding while on the road. I find my productivity takes a serious hit when I'm moved from my 27" monitor +12" laptop screen to just my laptop screen. Any suggestions for this?
At my last startup, we all worked from our laptops with no external monitors. I got used to it after a few weeks, and found myself able to work fine like that for 2 years.
When I switched jobs and finally had access to a huge apple cinema display, it felt way too big. What do I need all this space for? Of course, I got used to that after a couple weeks, and now I have a hard time coding when I'm away from it.
I've noticed the same thing when I travel with only my tiny chromebook (with crouton): the first week it seems painfully small, then it's normal. And when I go back to my 15" mbp, it seems unnecessarily large.
YMMV, but my experience has been that whatever I use for a week or two is fine for me.
God, those pants :O Please, fellow devs, dress better than that.
Pretty low-key for a functional not-quite-douchey-tacticool pair of pants. Pockets are of huge value when you carry your life with you on the road. Jeans are probably the next best bet if you need to look decent, but will feel bad in hot weather, not keep certain important areas dry, and lack the cargo capacity. Synthetic clothing helps a lot here. It dries very quickly and aireates better -- less trips to laundromat.
Comfort and function quickly took precedence on a half-year road trip I participated in. If you're trying to run cheap (car/forest camping for free, working in city by day), you want clothing that will not start stinking you up in under 3 days, and need certain items (phone, flashlight, pocket knife, etc.) quick at hand. If you are going to face clients/prospects, you keep a change of casual clothing fresh for just that purpose (and freshen up that day!). Granted, this is from a road-nomad perspective, but you get the idea.
God, those pants :O Please, fellow devs, dress better than that.
They really don't look that bad to me.
I was really hoping for stuff that makes you more effective at coding while on the road. I find my productivity takes a serious hit when I'm moved from my 27" monitor +12" laptop screen to just my laptop screen. Any suggestions for this?
I currently do 100% of my work on a 17" laptop (and right now I'm hanging out in a small town in the Sierra, watching a river flow by right outside my window). I'm not sure what you use, but I've found that just keeping a really organized workspace helps a lot. I use KDE4 and have four workspaces set up: one for web browser, one for tiled ssh terminals, one for Sublime, and one for "everything else". They're always a…
I was really hoping for stuff that makes you more effective at coding while on the road. I find my productivity takes a serious hit when I'm moved from my 27" monitor +12" laptop screen to just my laptop screen. Any suggestions for this?
https://www.google.com/search?q=portable+laptop+screen
Of course it would add to the energy consumption (and probably the energy used by the laptop), but the advantage is it's light, and in a travel-convenient form factor.
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I currently do 100% of my work on a 17" laptop (and right now I'm hanging out in a small town in the Sierra, watching a river flow by right outside my window). I'm not sure what you use, but I've found that just keeping a really organized workspace helps a lot. I use KDE4 and have four workspaces set up: one for web browser, one for tiled ssh terminals, one for Sublime, and one for "everything else". They're always a…
Open question: what's the best "workspaces" solution for Windows 8? I've seen many and used a few, but each had certain drawbacks. Does anyone have a favorite?
I was really hoping for stuff that makes you more effective at coding while on the road. I find my productivity takes a serious hit when I'm moved from my 27" monitor +12" laptop screen to just my laptop screen. Any suggestions for this?
that's exactly why I hope the oculus rift takes off and offers some high res models suitable for that kind of work in the future.
I also like the idea of something like that, but with an AR approach. Map an AR virtual monitor to any flat surface or random space you want.
I'm sure there are way better things you can do with AR than just that (I just think it's a reasonable and useful naive first approach), so here's hoping someday soon :)
I'm a bit of a trendy fop and I love them. The fabric has a bit of spandex in it, which makes them super comfortable and flexible. Even though they have the spandex, though, they also have a normal/natural sheen, so people will just think you're wearing regular slacks and not space pants.
They're made for cycling, and they also work pretty well for that, as well (which is really where the give of the spandex shines).
They run about $80 MSRP
If you want to spend an unhealthy chunk of dough, and get pants that are pretty much amazing, you should check out the Outlier OG's [2].
Again, they're designed for cycling, but they're made out of a straight up tech fabric called schoeller dryskin [3]. They're relatively water resistant and dry really quickly when they get wet. The fabric has a nice give to it, and is comfortable. Those would set you back about $180, though.
I'm a bit of a bike nerd, and do a lot of commuting by bike. Toured ireland for five or six weeks as well. I also like clothes with a good cut. I've found cycling clothes like that tend to offer a lot of functionality that makes them good travel attire and there are a number of companies out there making things with a good cut to them. Like I said, though, I'm into feeding my foppish vanity; If you're not, well, more power to you :)
[1] http://us.levi.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=11844101 [2] http://shop.outlier.cc/shop/retail/new-og.html [3] http://www.schoeller-textiles.com/en/fabric-groups/soft-shel...
