Similar but different to Keyboard for programmers, simply put, what keyboard layout is the best? I'm using Colemak and it's good but I don't think it's actually faster than Qwerty. Dvorak was certainly (for me anyway) not very fast at all. I have however found that Colemak is not so strain-inducing as Qwerty....
I switched to the dvorak keyboard layout about a year ago. I now use dvorak full-time at work and at home. Recently, I went on vacation to Peru and found myself in quite a conundrum. Internet cafes were qwerty-only (and Spanish qwerty, at that). I was stuck with a hunt-and-peck routine that grew old fairly quickly. That said, is it pos...
A friend of mine is trying to convince me to learn to type in Dvorak. The main reason I would consider switching is to relieve the strain on my hands from long periods of typing. Is it worth the effort to learn a new keyboard layout? For those of you who have switched, have you found your typing faster or felt less strain on your hand...
On a web page that is to be displayed on an iPhone, is there a way to get the number pad to come up when the user taps in the field, instead of the qwerty keypad? This guy says here's how to do it, but as of 2.0, this "feature" was disabled. I'm guessing there's some fancy javascript to employ to get around this limitation? ...
I hate to ask this here, but many people on stackoverflow have talked about the Das. I want to get the version with the printed keys - and since they don't sell a printed key version already set up for Dvorak, I hoped to rearrange the keys myself. OK, I know that I can, but... my dell sk-8115 keyboard did not manage the conversion f...
I'm trying to intercept the Ctrl/Chr key on a full QWERTY Nokia device (E71). It seems like the keyPress event isn't generated for this particular key. Any ideas? ...
i would be interested in switching to Dvorak keyboard layout. The problem that everyone runs into is that common programming(1) keyboard shortcuts, such as: Ctrl+C Ctrl+V Ctrl+Z will no longer be the keys on the bottom left of the keyboard, since the Dvorak layout has C, V and Z in different locations. The Mac has solved this proble...
I need a QWERTY keyboard using HTML buttons, which enters the typed info into a text field. I can put one together, but it seems that this must have been done before, and I hate to reinvent the wheel. Does anyone know where I could find code for something like that? ...
Hi, We have a midlet that needs to allow the user to switch input languages on the fly (its a dictionary type app) between several languages (say English to Arabic etc). All was charming in the "old days" with the numeric keypad, we handled the input ourselves matching 2 clicks on the 5 to feed the correct char to our program. Then came...
I've a "mnemonic" password generation function that goes something like this: function Mnemonic($mnemonic) { $result = null; $charset = array(str_split('aeiou', 1), str_split('bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz', 1)); for ($i = 1; $i <= $mnemonic; $i++) { $result .= $charset[$i % 2][array_rand($charset[$i % 2])]; } ...
I often hear complaints that programming languages that make heavy use of symbols for brevity, most notably C and C++ (I'm not going to touch APL), are difficult to type because they require frequent use of the shift key. A year or two ago, I got tired of it myself, downloaded Microsoft's Keyboard Layout Creator, made a few changes to my...
Does anyone have a list of the most commonly pressed keys on an English QWERTY keyboard? ...