{"id":78,"date":"2006-02-09T07:51:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2006\/02\/09\/the-ultimate-programmers-keyboard"},"modified":"2006-02-09T07:51:13","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T13:51:13","slug":"the-ultimate-programmers-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Programmers Keyboard?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over the years, I’ve come up with a lot of ideas for products, both real world and software.\u00a0 Some of those would be:<\/div>\n
1) Ear muffs with built in headphones<\/div>\n
2) Surround sound headphones<\/div>\n
3) A keyboard that works well for programmers, including instant macros, a billion shortcuts and more.<\/div>\n
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#1 was brought out by someone about\u00a06 months after I thought of the idea – this was in the late 80’s or early 90’s.<\/div>\n
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#2 started appearing a while ago, again about 6 months after I first thought of it.\u00a0 I guess I need to learn to react quicker to these ideas (that, and build a factory so I have the resources handy when I have an idea)!<\/div>\n
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Now it looks like #3 has possibly happened, but by accident rather than by design.<\/div>\n
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Logitech has a product called the G15 Gaming Keyboard<\/a>.\u00a0 I believe this may turn out to be a fantastic keyboard for programmers.\u00a0 You can read their information site for all the relevant details, but consider this –\u00a0it has a grand total of 54 programmable function keys!\u00a0 That’s 18 keys, with three "banks" of programming.\u00a0 Each key can be assigned to launch a program or run a macro.\u00a0 Macros can be programmed quickly just by pressing the MR (macro record) key and then the "G" key you want the keystrokes to be associated with.\u00a0 Program launching can be handled by using the configuration program.<\/div>\n
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The LCD display can display things like current media playing, a date \/ time \/ email status panel and\u00a0system performance (CPU and memory utilization).\u00a0 It can also be programmed using an included SDK.\u00a0 In my case I was intending to use it to display certain server status information, but I haven’t gotten around to coding that yet.\u00a0 However, DevExpress<\/a> has come out with a plug in for their Refactor! Pro <\/a>tool that displays the refactors available and various statistics about the code that you’re looking at.\u00a0 I don’t know that it’s extremely useful, but it is cool.<\/div>\n
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The key feel is quite good in my opinion, but the keyboard overall is large.\u00a0 Given everything that’s jammed on it, that isn’t a surprise, but if you have a tiny desk, you might notice the loss of space.\u00a0 No Miguel, they don’t have a "natural" version. <\/div>\n
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Oh yeah, it has lighted keys (which can be turned off) to help with those late late late night coding sessions.<\/div>\n
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Do you code?\u00a0 Do you think this keyboard might be useful to you?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the years, I’ve come up with a lot of ideas for products, both real world and software.\u00a0 Some of those would be: 1) Ear muffs with built in headphones 2) Surround sound headphones 3) A keyboard that works well for programmers, including instant macros, a billion shortcuts and more. \u00a0 #1 was brought out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}