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I was impressed by that too, although I did see a quick twitter check in there at least once.

I'm sure I would do my best to appear attentive when working on something like this, limiting my twitter/facebook/hn browsing to my iPhone/iPod/laptop.

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I did see a quick twitter check in there

He posted about development progress.

He also posted a screenshot in a Wordpress blog.

Or maybe he has Twitter on another screen :-)

I don't think I would undertake a 48h programming contest with a single screen.

Yeah, he has 3 monitors and a Cintiq.. http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/08/21/getting-started-he...

And the Cintiq is a screen as well, so plenty of screen space there.

Here's the sound effect program he was using, btw:

http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html

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