{"id":544,"date":"2008-12-29T22:07:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T03:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2008\/12\/29\/the-developers-travel-kit\/"},"modified":"2008-12-29T22:07:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T03:07:16","slug":"the-developers-travel-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2008\/12\/29\/the-developers-travel-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Developer’s Travel Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you carry along in your laptop bag? Whether going to work or traveling for business, what technology do you lug around in your developer’s travel kit? I recently clean out my laptop bag<\/a> and found the following contents…<\/p>\n

I found that I carry a number of USB flash drives, currently I am making a good use of a 32 GB<\/a> flash drive. I take a lot of pictures so I usually copy them on this flash drive before I can backup into a 1TB drive I have at home. I think that USB drives are like diamonds for techies in that we can never have enough. I also have two 8GB and a 4GB flash drive. In addition to the flash drives I also carry a card reader<\/a> to quickly transfer pictures from my camera SD card to my computer. I do have a Lenovo T61 that has a built in card reader but I still need a USB card reader for other machines I interact with on a daily basis. In my laptop bag I also found a 500GB USB portable drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also can’t live without pen and paper, I am always taking notes and doodling on scraps of paper. I carry with me a small notepad of yellow post-its. I also have a bunch of conventional pens and high lighters but they don’t get much use these days. I am an early adopter of the Pulse Smartpen<\/a> and carry the Smartpen with a small smart pad of smart paper journal. I have written about the Smartpen<\/a> and I am amazed with the technology.<\/p>\n

Another piece of gadgetry in my carrying case is the Kindle<\/a> electronic book reader. The Kindle is simply amazing. I currently have a whole bookshelf of technical books on the kindle. I have seriously thought of burning all the big, fat, obsolete books I have at home and at work and simply replace them with kindle editions. The one drawback with the Kindle is that it makes it too easy to buy books.<\/p>\n

The last bit of equipment that make my developer’s travel kit complete is a Ubuntu Live CD<\/a>. I recently had to use this live CD when trying to recover data from a compromised machine. A live CD is like the IT equivalent of a Swiss army knife.<\/p>\n

Not officially part of my travel kit but I don’t travel anywhere without my iPhone<\/a>. I have personalized my iPhone with a ton, of mostly free, useful games and applications. When waiting in line or on the commuter train I always pull out my iPhone to catch with emails, blogs, and news.<\/p>\n

Do I haul around too much technology? I’ll be honest, I never meet a gadget I didn’t like. What is in your developer’s laptop bag?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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