If anyone is unfamiliar with The Perry Bible Fellowship (The PBF) comic strip series then you need to check it out right now. No it isn’t religious at all, the name is meant to be somewhat of a misnomer/joke. Anyways I’ve been a zealous reader of the strip for years and the writer (Nicholas Gurewhitch) finally got a collection of his comics published. For people that live in cool cities (like Seattle) this comic is actually printed in their local newspapers. For the rest of us we just have to subscribe to the RSS feed to enjoy the latest editions.
The best part about Nicholas’ comics is that there are always hidden meanings so you end up spending a couple minutes trying to figure out exactly what he was thinking (unless you get it right away).
Here is an example of one of his newer strips:
There are a ton at his site that will provide you with lots of enjoyment for hours 
Ever since I met Damien Guard last month and started reading his blog I’ve become somewhat of a fiend for fonts, color schemes, etc. This includes pimping out Visual Studio with whatever customizations possible. This morning I noticed a link from Damien’s blog to another blog (owned by Tomas Restrepo) that contains a slew of color schemes tweaked to perfection for the new RTM version of VS2008.
Ragnarok Grey looks pretty nice, and I bet would go very well with Damien’s own Envy Code R font. You should definitely check them both out. You might be surprised how much better it makes the coding experience
So I ended up going with Ragnarok Blue. That theme coupled with Damien’s Envy Code R font (size 10) is perfect.
I’ve been aware of UltraMon for a few years but for some reason never took the time to see whether it was worth the hype. I was reading this month’s MSDN magazine and noticed it listed in the toolbox article and finally decided to give it a shot. Now I’m staring myself down in the mirror wondering how in the world I was able to exist on this planet without it.
The fact that UltraMon splits your Windows taskbar across all monitors is just one of the many beautiful features. When you install UltraMon, by default it will place two new buttons in the title bar of every application window: one for toggling to the next monitor, and one for maximizing it across all monitors. Even better than that is the ability to create hotkeys for those functions. So now if I’m coding in Visual Studio on the main monitor directly in front of me and someone comes into my office and wants to see something I can just press the 2 key (this is configurable) and VS will immediately switch to the next monitor. Then if I want to display something large across all monitors I can just hit the 3 key (also configurable) and the window not spreads across all monitors. Perfect!
All-in-all UltraMon is truly sweet. My name is Jonathan Carter and I approve this software.
So I just recently switched blogging engines (and web hosts for that matter) and am pretty happy with the new setup. Hopefully starting from here on out I’ll be really regular with the posts.
I’d like to thank Damien Guard for giving me the inspiration to use Redoable
