[ooagentbender]

I was wondering for anyone who does programming, how is the workspace with just a 17 inch powerbook. I have 15 inch flatpanel that I might sell or hang onto if I buy one and I was just wondering if theres enough room for documentation and text editing without and extra screen.

Thanks very much

[OogaBooga]

Should be plenty of space. It's widescreen, so you can put your documentation on one side and XCode/jEdit/vim on the other.

[ooagentbender]

Thats what I was thinking, just wanted to get a second opinion.

thanks

[Salty]

Don't forget about Exposé

[Tesseract]

I've done quite a bit of programming on a 17" iMac which is the same size screen. Plenty of room for two 90x45 terminal windows, a Safari window, and whatever else I wanted to run.

Cmd-Tab, Cmd-~, and Expose can help lots.

[ooagentbender]

Thats awesome, as im on the road alot. Thanks for the info, ill see if I can't unload my custom built gentoo box.

Much love

[hanxu]

when I am programminging, I usually all over the place, when I used IDE that doesn't have tabs, I found it really difficult to find one file that I opened on the desktop, because mac doesn't have windows' address bar(or whatever it is called, you know the bar at the bottom of the screen)

Then I found the bbedit and the new dreamwaver 8 (ye, I use dreamwaver for Java) they both support tabs, and really make life much easier.

[Altair]

Originally Posted by hanxu

when I am programminging, I usually all over the place, when I used IDE that doesn't have tabs, I found it really difficult to find one file that I opened on the desktop, because mac doesn't have windows' address bar(or whatever it is called, you know the bar at the bottom of the screen)

Then I found the bbedit and the new dreamwaver 8 (ye, I use dreamwaver for Java) they both support tabs, and really make life much easier.

Try Eclipse at www.eclipse.org. That is the single best IDE for any language ever. It does take a fair amount of resources to run though.

[imacgeek]

I've been ok with a 15" and bigger sould be fine but I have great vision

[Tesseract]

I'm not big on IDEs; on Linux I usually use vim or gvim to edit and tools like make or ant for build automation.

This practice has carried over now that I am doing development on the Mac; I use vim in the Terminal on the Mac as well, but lately I've been using TextMate. It has tabs, a quick-file-switch shortcut (Cmd-T) and other goodies without feeling overly bloated or restricted to just one language. Like vim or emacs, it's appropriate for just about any filetype. I use it to edit Ruby, C++, LaTeX, and HTML among other things.