01 November 2002

Multiple monitors Multi-Head. I went dual-head at home in Y2K, but could never convince my own manager in Germany of the benefits. My protege from the US came to visit once, however, and got his whole team outfitted with dual-head setups shortly therafter. For anyone who often needs to view two windows at once, the productivity gains are obvious and immediate. Compared to putting a second computer on someone's desk, the cost of adding an additional display is minor. The worst thing about a multi-monitor setup is that they are addictive. I had to give up my second monitor a few months ago, and it feels like I am trapped in hell. I can't get a meaningful, simultaneous view of two windows a 17" screen. The drain on my productivity while coding is so severe that it's hard to work up the motivation to start... [Bryce's Radio Experiments I'm seriously considering a third monitor now... VS.NET on one debugging my debugger on another and the application that's being debugged by that on the third. I can't go back to one monitor any more. What other blogs are saying about this post. 3:04:55 PM    comment []  trackback []

Another Friday Hopefully today is my last day on my current project for a while and I'll be implementing a support website until Christmas. That'll take a few days, and the rest is updating documents for an older project of mine for which the customer has decided to pay for a support contract on. That bit isn't as fun, but since I'm coding in MFC at the moment I can't wait to get onto the web development part. The project is going to start with a phase of interactive design, which means the customer doesn't know what they want so they want us to hack (sorry, prototype) different ideas until they are happy. Since we know basically what they want we can put together the backend for the system straight away and the front end can be changed as much as we feel like with very little effort. The upside is that when I'm working on the documents I'll be so feed up with not coding that the debugger will come along in leaps and bounds. What other blogs are saying about this post. 10:20:01 AM    comment []  trackback []

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