How do YOU like to code?

Hi,

Doing a night shift to cover somebody (ugh!) but it has given me the opportunity to code in the way I like – with a liberal application of wilderness. ;-)

[the original 5mpx is here]

You can see my soya in the background, and mom’s lettuce to the left.

Over to you – where do you like to fire up your compiler?

Please don’t post huge pictures!!! The rendered page is almost twice as wide as my 1920 × 1080 screen size and every subsequent posting has to be continually scrolled back and forth to read.

huge pictures

Fine after re-scaling. But, to be fair, if the forum was better suited to images then it’d only show a thumbnail and we wouldn’t have to faff around with this.

Please don’t post huge pictures!!!

Strange. I did check that on my phone. It appears as a table width miniature…

…original post image replaced with a 600×450 version as this lame forum doesn’t seem capable of on-the-fly image tweaking (jeez, even my blog does that and I wrote the damn thing myself! ;-) ). Condition exacerbated by a browser that isn’t smart enough to resize the image to fit the table instead of the other way around (sounds like a CSS thing, don’tcha think?).

For me a desktop on a large screen is a must for coding. In good weather I prefer to be outside. The other necessity is that my brain should be in gear, a circumstance that is increasingly rare.

My best coding ideas arise in the middle of sleepless nights, after having found solutions for all other world problems. When it comes to actual coding, those ideas usually appear to be either 1. rubbish, or 2. too difficult for me to implement.

My most recent ideal coding day was at April 30, a coronation day in The Netherlands, which kept my wife and children hooked to the television for numerous hours. I agree with Gavin about the large screen (and about the increasing mutiny of the brain.)

[every link goes to a picture to enhance your message reading experience (well, it beats reading the crap I usually write)]

Sadly some of my best code has been written when I’m been laid out in bed dying (!) of the flu. It’s like my brain needs to be experiencing a certain sort of hell in order to write epic C.
Unfortnately now that I have Internet and have discovered fansub animé, my usually flaky attention span is even less stable. Should I write that troublesome function I’ve been putting off, or should I catch up on Mei Misaki‘s story? Oh, my, that’s such a difficult decision.
Not to mention forum posts like here or TheRegister – it’s a lot easier to write stuff here than do any real work. ;-)
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to find out if Taichi has made it to class A, or if he will forever languish in class B.