Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread osjasonroberts
Anyone used/using one of these (or similar keyboard)? http://codekeyboards.com/ Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses: http://bit.ly/psjasonroberts ===

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
This is a good question as I am in the process of looking for a mechanical keyboard. The Code keyboards seem pretty expensive by the time they get to Aus so I was thinking one of these http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_infocPath=113_1276products_id=2 On Fri, Oct 24, 2014

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread Michael Ridland
I kind of don't understand what they do, their just a robust keyboard? You still have to press as hard? I've been loving apple keyboards as it's soft and easy to press, is it like this or going in the opposite direction? Thanks On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Craig van Nieuwkerk

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread Les Hughes
I use the Filco Tenkeyless (without the numeric pad on the right) with the blue cherry switches. I spent probably $220 on it all up (I've got the plain keys without lettering so the keyboard is completely black... can't touchtype? not 1337 enough to use my computer!) If you spend 8+ hours

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread Joseph Cooney
I have 2x das keyboards which also have mechanical switches. After using for a long time anything else seems terrible by comparison. Joseph On Oct 24, 2014 12:35 PM, osjasonrobe...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone used/using one of these (or similar keyboard)? http://codekeyboards.com/ Jason

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread osjasonroberts
Thanks Craig, that looks interesting - not sure about the big flat front bit but says it uses Cherry MX switches similar to the code keyboards and it’s reasonably priced… Jason Roberts Journeyman Software Developer Twitter: @robertsjason Blog: http://DontCodeTired.com Pluralsight Courses:

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread Stephen Price
I've been using Corsair Vengence K90 gaming keyboard for the longest time... three years?. Mechanical keys wouldn't change back but i'm sure there are equally awesome keyboards out there. Had a Razor gaming keyboard which died. I also got a Code keyboard (without numberpad) and the micro usb port

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
I am pretty sure you can remove the hand rest part at the front. On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 2:40 PM, osjasonrobe...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Craig, that looks interesting - not sure about the big flat front bit but says it uses Cherry MX switches similar to the code keyboards and it’s reasonably

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread Craig van Nieuwkerk
Looking at the companies web page you can remove the wrist rest http://www.tesorotec.com/gaming-keyboard/tesoro-durandal-ultimate-g1nl-led-backlit-mechanical-gaming-keyboard.html?sl=EN I also like that it has USB and headphone/speaker plugs which is convenient. Any keyboard with Cherry switches

Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-23 Thread Stuart Kinnear
I've got a bit of free time so I'm starting to play around with mobile development and getting somewhat bewildered with the options offered. The dream is to knock up a business style app that will allow persistence of data to the local database eg. sqlite then a transfer to a base server. Looked

Re: Code Mechanical Keyboards

2014-10-23 Thread osjasonroberts
Cool, personally don’t need all the extras (speaker plugs etc), look like a CODE 87 Key Clear will be about $210 including delivery to Perth It’s weird, I’ve never really thought too much about keyboards before and yet I spend 40+ hours a week with it! Are mechanical keyboards supposed to be

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-23 Thread Michael Ridland
Go Xamarin it's the best! (Opinion may be bias www.michaelridland.com) Traditional Xamarin (Native API) as the platform is awesome and solid and fast, the IDE and some of the tools around it can be a bit buggy. Xamarin.Forms is pretty early, and can be frustrating but I have build some XPlat app

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-23 Thread Michael Ridland
... but that said, Xamarin is pretty heavy weight, it's s big learning curve.. if you want something lightweight and 'pretty' good you should try out Ionic... On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote: Go Xamarin it's the best! (Opinion may be bias

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-23 Thread Michael Ridland
http://ionicframework.com/ On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote: ... but that said, Xamarin is pretty heavy weight, it's s big learning curve.. if you want something lightweight and 'pretty' good you should try out Ionic... On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-23 Thread Tom Rutter
+1 for big leaning curve. Played around with it a bit few years ago then didn't touch it til a few months ago and I was lost like never before. That said, the Xamarin people have added so much to it now so stability is probably much better now On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Michael Ridland

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-23 Thread William Luu
On a related note, Dropbox used C++ for their Android/iOS apps - http://oleb.net/blog/2014/05/how-dropbox-uses-cplusplus-cross-platform-development/ On 24 October 2014 15:22, Michael Ridland rid...@gmail.com wrote: http://ionicframework.com/ On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Michael Ridland

Re: Opinions sought on Xamarin

2014-10-23 Thread Michael Ridland
Nice blog post... but if they had just used Xamarin their job would have been alot easier. They wouldn't of had to write their own persistance layer, with Xamarin you can use the Native SQLite instances. Their serious backend code eg Offline, Caching, would have been able to use C# and the full