Friday, August 22, 2008

The future of programming is wide screen

I have to confess, I didnt get it until I actually saw it for real - I was trying to program on my new(ish) laptop in widescreen, at 1280x800, which was killing my poor old eyes, which are just too good to use spectacles but not good enough to use a small high-resolution monitor, so I switched to a free-standing TFT monitor which only supports 80x600. Vista very obligingly reset the laptop monitor to matching resolution, and because I didnt choose to share the view across the two monitors, it showed the same. To my surprise, I could see much more of Visual Studio 2008 on the laptop monitor -- an AHA moment, this is probably what the research on higher programmer productivity on larger monitors is all about. I'm convinced. Now all I have to do is find a wide screen 21 or 24 inch that doesnt give me head-aches :-)

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