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My main machine is now an ASUS Transformer Prime and I couldn't be happier. I charge it most nights, but even if I forget for two nights in a row the battery is usually good enough. I can't do any dev work on it, but I don't like developing on laptops - I need at least two large monitors to be at all productive. For everything else, the TF201 is a really superb device.
Commented Sep 23, 2012 on The Last PC Laptop at Coding Horror
The Last PC Laptop
I've been chasing the perfect PC laptop for over a decade now. Though I've tolerated lugging around five to seven pound machines because I had to, laptops were always about portability first and most of all to me. I quickly gravitated to so-called ultraportable laptops as soon as they became ...
I have to ask: why do your cats observe DST?
Commented May 7, 2012 on This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details at Coding Horror
This Is All Your App Is: a Collection of Tiny Details
Fair warning: this is a blog post about automated cat feeders. Sort of. But bear with me, because I'm also trying to make a point about software. If you have a sudden urge to click the back button on your browser now, I don't blame you. I don't often talk about cats, but when I do, I make it co...
Of course money can't buy happiness! Money is happiness!
On a serious note, I recently moved to a different continent so I'm in the process of buying a new everything. I think these tips are pretty much what I normally try to do, but I'll try to keep them in mind as they're extremely relevant at this moment.
Commented May 3, 2012 on Buying Happiness at Coding Horror
Buying Happiness
Despite popular assertions to the contrary, science tells us that money can buy happiness. To a point. Recent research has begun to distinguish two aspects of subjective well-being. Emotional well-being refers to the emotional quality of an individual's everyday experience — the frequency and...
That really depends on the type of site. When you go to a shopping website, and sort the results by price, you might want to go to the middle page to see what's available in that range. You can't really do that conveniently with infinite scrolling.
Commented Mar 28, 2012 on The End of Pagination at Coding Horror
The End of Pagination
What do you do when you have a lot of things to display to the user, far more than can possibly fit on the screen? Paginate, naturally. There are plenty of other real world examples in this 2007 article, but I wouldn't bother. If you've seen one pagination scheme, you've seen them all. The...
I don't own a battery charger. Instead I have a 10-pack of AA batteries I bought in IKEA back in 2009, and I used one of those batteries once, for something I can't quite recall. The other 9 are still waiting for me to find a use for them...
Commented Dec 13, 2011 on Gifts for Geeks, 2011 Edition at Coding Horror
Gifts for Geeks, 2011 Edition
Between founding Stack Overflow (and later, running Stack Exchange) and having a child, I haven't had much time to blog about the holidays for a few years now. The last Gifts for Geeks I did was in 2008. Those recommendations are still as valid as ever, but I just couldn't muster the enthusiasm...
How about this: you have a PGP key pair installed on your machine. Your username (everywhere) is the public key. Your password is the url (or something in a meta tag), encrypted with the private key. Both base-64 encoded. You can also install that certificate on the cloud, in which case you would get each password by logging in there, so you wouldn't need to install the certificate when you're a guest. In other words, you'll only use the cloud when you're not on your default machine.
Isn't that simpler, and just as secure?
Commented Sep 7, 2011 on Cutting the Gordian Knot of Web Identity at Coding Horror
Cutting the Gordian Knot of Web Identity
Perhaps you've seen this recent XKCD about password choice? It prompted a spirited debate – even on our very own Security Stack Exchange – about the merits of the argument presented there. Now, to be clear, I'm completely on Randall's side here; I'm all for passphrases over passwords, and I...
You might be interested in this suggestion on the newish VS uservoice forum: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2035769-make-edit-and-continue-work-more-globally
It basically says "let us use Edit and Continue even though we're using features that were introduced after Visual Studio 2005"...
Commented Aug 10, 2011 on Edit and Continue at Coding Horror
Edit and Continue
I'm looking forward to VS.NET 2005 like everyone else, but the one killer feature that will absolutely compel me to upgrade on day of release is Edit and Continue. I had no idea exactly how much time I spent editing live code in VB6's debugger until I lost this capability in VS.NET. It is my on...
The handwriting recognition on my dad's old Windows tablet was pretty decent though. Also, when I get voicemail by Google voice, the speech recognition is pretty nice - except when the voicemail is in a different language. Then it's just funny.
Commented Jun 21, 2010 on Whatever Happened to Voice Recognition? at Coding Horror
Whatever Happened to Voice Recognition?
Remember that Scene in Star Trek IV where Scotty tried to use a Mac Plus? Using a mouse or keyboard to control a computer? Don't be silly. In the future, clearly there's only one way computers will be controlled: by speaking to them. There's only one teeny-tiny problem with this magical fu...
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