I'm sitting in the BA lounge in terminal 4 as I type this. Too lazy to bust out my laptop, I'm using the PCs they provide. The British keyboard layout is killing me -- it's just enough like an American keyboard to lull you into a false sense of security, and then WHAM, that's not the shift key! POW, guess where the quote has gone to? ZING, all your backslash keys are belong to us!
Yeah, okay, so I'm being a little melodramatic about the keyboard. Sue me. I'm tired. It wasn't so many hours ago that we took a car from Huesca to Zaragoza, then a train from Zaragoza to Barcelona, a few hours of shut-eye in a hotel, and a plane from Barcelona to London. Now here we sit, killing 5+ hours in LHR waiting for the plane back to Seattle.
The DevLab went well, btw. I'll blog about it later when the mental fog clears.
Try coding on that keyboard layout. They've moved just about every special, reserved symbol. I love how the enter key has been rotated like a tetris piece so that they can jam the # key in there. Now I just press # instead of/as well as enter all the time.
Stop the insanity!
Tetris piece -- funny! I had to do some coding on the Spanish keyboards too. It's clear these keyboard layouts were not created by developers, or they would make all the coding symbols more accessible!
I always miss the enter key on your american keyboard layouts! qwerty comes in my nightmares again and again! The backslash and the @ are slashing my nerves, too!
Help!
This is the austrian melodramatic version ;)
We totally need the brain-PC interface to rid ourselves of all of this keyboard madness! :)
you know what... you can actually type faster than you can think :p ... (is it jus me or the theory actaully exist?).. how about coding with speech recognition. LOL..."Console.WriteLin? Console.WriteLan?... #*$(#&*$&...Where the darn british keyboard????"