Computer Setup

4:3 monitors... they still make those?

Yes, it's not the best. Stock Dell monitors that our company has a million of. Would love something much wider.

Wider is ok but taller is best! My setup at work is a 13" retina MPB with a 22" monitor rotated portrait and a 22" landscape. Portrait for coding, landscape for browsing and the mac for chat / email / etc.

Yeah, I do remote tech support, and they gave us a 1440x900 and 1366x768 monitor. I was like "You've got to be kidding." The techs at the other call centers laugh at us.

I wish! Triple widescreen is awful for coding. Too far to look to the sides.

I prefer 3 monitors.. I'm back down to 2 as I moved stuff around between office and home and Its driving me insane.

I usually hard wrap my code at 100 chars at the longest, so that's not an issue. That way I can fit two files side by side without soft wrapping.

I love that mouse! Unfortunately mine died two months ago :'(

Thanks. I have two of them, actually. Both work. I love 'em.

G5 v2? What I'm rocking. :D

Is that the collectors edition millennium falcon?

Looks to be the normal version.

Thanks. What DalekBen said. Actually, I'm not sure myself, honestly.

And now I'm curious about what car you drive. LSx powered something???

A gearhead gave me that sticker. Though, I have SLP exhaust on my other car (mustang).

Is the Dilbert thing that's hanging up available for purchase somewhere online?

No idea, actually. I found that somewhere. It just says "The Dilbert Zone" on it. Nothing on it indicating where it came from. Sorry.

What kind of web development do you do?

Several ASP.NET/MVC/C# projects. Visual Studio 2012 is my IDE. Also, some Phonegap development.

Do you code backends with C#? Those would use a Windows server?

I do it all depending on the project.

How's that? I've only done back end in C (uhh.) and Python on Linux. Would be interesting to see what Windows has to offer.

At first I was like "eww gross windows." Then I realized it was Visual Studio and I was like "ok this makes sense." Developing PHP and Python on windows is a nightmare. I could only imagine how terrible .NET or C# would be on Linux. I imagine close to impossible haha.

Desktop OS doesn't really matter if you develop in a VM, which is good practice anyway.

Looks like you got Fiddler on monitor 1, VS 2012 in the middle rocking some some HTML and CSS and is that SiteFinity on the side? (Never used it but Telerik makes awesome things, so I'm going to assume that as far as CMSes go, it's not bad.)

No mechanical keyboard? Shame on you!

SLP eh? Are you an F-body guy?

I got the same mouse, think geek mug, phone, and fan...

I like the star wars legos!

What lego pieces are those?

And you battle against Internet Explorer :D

Is that a foot rest? Nice!

Nice mug. Brand facing the camera, of course ;)

Ewww ASP.NET? Ruby and Python are the ways forward.

Web development on a windows box?

Visual C# and Javascript can be used to make some pretty dynamic web pages.

Neither of that has anything to do with my comment about him using windows for an OS. It's possible to code C# and javascript in linux/os x..

And you can write Perl in Windows, but it's not optimal. .NET on Windows is optimal, however. Visual Studio out-performs Xamarin and Mono in almost every way possible.

You can do any web development on a Windows box. Actually, more, considering that Linux can't run IIS. See above, but I do ASP.NET development in VS 2012.

Why would it matter what OS your dev machine is running? Your dev server should probably be a VM anyway.

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