ThoughtShapes Shaping Ideas With Thought

Rjae, Rob, Kasia Baron, and I went to the Deep Agile 2008 conference run by New England Agile Bazaar. The event was held over the course of two days at MIT's Tang Hall and was truly outstanding. The structure of it, as noted at Agile Bazaar's website, was a one-on-one discussion, debate-style, between Robert Martin and James Coplien and it focused on the realities of Agile software development.

Every day I work I wish for a single feature in Visual Studio: the ability to move a code file from Visual Studio to another monitor. I can't stand the fact that I can't do this! Even if I switch to MDI view Visual Studio only lets each window move around within Visual Studio and not to other monitors. I would love to have a few code files dispersed on various monitors so that I can see more of what I'm doing at any given time.

In this day and age is this too much to ask? Why the constraint?

Good Lord. After much gnashing of teeth I finally got my notebook configured to use three external monitors. Why is this so hard in this day and age? Am I the first person in the world that wants to run more than two monitors from a notebook? Why aren't all notebook manufacturers providing the hardware to get this done easily? I could see if I owned a standard notebook that isn't built for a professional computer user, but I own a Dell M90 notebook that is built for a hardcore geek.

Anyway, enough venting. On to the details...