This is a case I'd like to see discussed some more. I faced this condundrum in a MVVM application. I put the display property (CSS class) in the view model and could simply bind to it in the view. I guess MVVM has that extra layer where this stuff can be buried.

I've got a Sony and a Kindle--I agree with others that for technical books, the eReaders aren't so good. It takes a second or two to turn a page. Flipping or searching through a book to find something is just too slow. My girlfriend reads a lot of novels and loves her Kindle. It's amazing to order a book and within seconds it's on the device. It takes longer than that to page through the preface pages of the book. I'll add my vote for a second monitor.

I started programming in high school. We built a SOL20, programmed in BASIC loaded from a cassette player. Five minutes to load the interpreter--if it didn't fail to load. Going to college, they just got rid of the keypunch machines. I bought an Atari 800 and was able to dial up at 300 baud to write my FORTAN programs. I was programming in style. No more waiting for days at the distribution desk for my printout. PC's were brand new when I entered the work force. I like to joke with co-workers that I'm older than the internet. :) One intern suggested I was older than computers. He thinks of computers as PCs, so in that sense I am. As I work in a government facility it comes in handy I can fire up a PDP-11, update DOS programs and revive Windows 3.1 machines. W00t!

March 31st