I read that series of articles every now and again because it sells a wonderful dream. The idea of being a highly mobile outdoorsman hacking code across the city is appealing. I also love the single-minded workflow of iOS, only one application is vying for your attention at a single moment. Anything else just pops in to let you know and then pops out. And working on a remote server is awesome, since the hardware doesn't matter anymore. I can bring whatever terminal I need, so I'm not tethered to my desk anymore.
Unfortunately most of my programming is web apps, so while it works for his C++ with long compile times, it doesn't work the same for me.
The one thing I did take from it long term is moving my dev server to the cloud, AWS Cloud9 specifically. I often find myself working on two or three website codebases plus two phone apps, and my personal laptop just doesn't have the RAM or disk space to hold all of that. So I use Cloud9 for the web apps and keep the phone apps on my local machine and it works out pretty well.
To be honest if Cloud9 worked on an iPad I'd probably leave my laptop closed more often.
Unfortunately most of my programming is web apps, so while it works for his C++ with long compile times, it doesn't work the same for me.
The one thing I did take from it long term is moving my dev server to the cloud, AWS Cloud9 specifically. I often find myself working on two or three website codebases plus two phone apps, and my personal laptop just doesn't have the RAM or disk space to hold all of that. So I use Cloud9 for the web apps and keep the phone apps on my local machine and it works out pretty well.
To be honest if Cloud9 worked on an iPad I'd probably leave my laptop closed more often.