Wednesday 21 November 2007

Work setup




This is what I look at for roughly 36 hours a week. It's a good thing I have to tidy my desk every night before I leave, because otherwise I would be swamped in papers.

Oh, and I need a bigger monitor. The left one is used to access a developer environment which runs our production environment (don't ask). The right one is for office and e-mail. Applications on the right can span to the left. But those on the left cannot spill-over to the right. And as always with software, there is so much anger and hate going round. To minimize this, I dutifully follow http://we.hates.software and Worse Than Failure.

Zaaf

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you need that much screen estate and still don't have enough there's something wrong with the way you work. I guess you're trying to do many different things at the same time. Focus on one task and close all windows that don't apply to this task. It helps you to get your work done faster.

Zaaf said...

The reasons I'd like a still bigger screen is that I have to update spreadsheets created by another department. And those sheets could easily spread across three screens if I am to see the whole sheet in a zoom level that does not hurt my eyes. Think 8 point Arial at 70% zoom level versus 100% zoom level.

But I do appreciate your comment and I'll try to apply it.

Zaaf