http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/1 ... h-just.php

Guy basically switched from coding on a laptop, to coding on an iPad while VNCing to his Linode.

Sounds painful.

The guy must bill his clients by the minute.

I couldn't do that on an ipad....a netbook/mac book air but not an ipad...ewww

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To be fair, it's not just an iPad on its own.... He does have a wireless keyboard linked to it, plus a VGA adapter so he can connect it to his huge HD TV. The equipment he used (for coding purposes), according to the blog post: iPad 2 (16 GB + WiFi), Apple wireless keyboard, Stilgut adjustable angle stand/case, iSSH, Linode 512 (Ubuntu 11.04) and Apple VGA adapter. This setup replaced his MacBook which crashed spectacularly (to quote his blog post: "One fateful day, VMWare and OS/X conspired to trash my shared filesystem, losing several days of uncommitted code in the process."), and the new setup works out fine for him.

I actually read the article about a week ago, when Linode re-tweeted the article link.
https://twitter.com/yieldthought/status ... 8397254657

I read it too..all that junk to carry around when I could just have one device seems much easier, it seems to defeat the point of an ipad when you need a keyboard.

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