The pain of F5
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I don't think I could work without dual monitors now, literally saves a silly amount of time (those seconds switching add up!) I do wonder how people could use 4-5, I understand one being football :P
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the grim reaper" - Robert Alton Harris
How do you only work with two? You need three minimum. One for VS, one for output, one or two for research/google. I tried one for emails and IM but that just annoyed me. The director at my previous employer would quote a study that showed as the number of monitors increased, there was a direct correlation to worker productivity. He used 6.
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When you're doing a simple HTML change and go to refresh the page (F5) but your focus is still on visual studio :((
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I just wish GD copy and paste still worked. Highlight text, control + C, alt+tab, control+V:=>nothing or garbage from the last copy and past.
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When you're doing a simple HTML change and go to refresh the page (F5) but your focus is still on visual studio :((
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the grim reaper" - Robert Alton Harris
Indeed. I've already set my Visual Studio SQL Editor to Execute, not build, for very similar reasons.
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When you're doing a simple HTML change and go to refresh the page (F5) but your focus is still on visual studio :((
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the grim reaper" - Robert Alton Harris
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I would love to have dual monitors. :) Our dealing room colleagues have even 4 to 5 monitors, when there is World Cup, some watch TV on one of them (when boss is out..)
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There are loads of studies in your favour: Google[^] I didn't believe it myself, but it makes a real difference to how you work, and it does indeed make you more productive. It isn't difficult to build a cash-worth business case to justify it, especially when you look at the price of monitors at the moment - how much of your time do you have to save in order to make the company a profit over the cost of the hardware? Surprisingly little, I suspect - depending on your hourly wage. You can also get brownie points with your cow-orkers but extending his largesse to them with the same business case.
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When you're doing a simple HTML change and go to refresh the page (F5) but your focus is still on visual studio :((
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the grim reaper" - Robert Alton Harris
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How do you only work with two? You need three minimum. One for VS, one for output, one or two for research/google. I tried one for emails and IM but that just annoyed me. The director at my previous employer would quote a study that showed as the number of monitors increased, there was a direct correlation to worker productivity. He used 6.
I have six monitors myself. My main machine with four and my laptop with second monitor. I run the mail on one monitor, SQL Manager on another, Visual Studio on another, Explorer on another, a browser on another and the last is for browser developer screens. I have to support the four main browsers IE, Chrome, Safari and that weird one, Firefox; so I sometimes have them all up at the same time and need lot's of screen room. I have three of the monitors in portrait mode and the one for testing the browser is normally landscape as that is how my users normally have it.
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Simon Lee Shugar wrote:
I do wonder how people could use 4-5
Working for a bank with market area. The dealers in their handle real time markets. One monitor shows the market on selling side, the other has the buying side, the other has current exchange rates, the other the standard Windows desktop. Well, the 5th is usually a remote TV with usually CNBC on it..
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I would love to have dual monitors. :) Our dealing room colleagues have even 4 to 5 monitors, when there is World Cup, some watch TV on one of them (when boss is out..)
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I already have dual monitors; one for the official box, and one for the various mutants on my desks. Never the twain shall meet.
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I don't think I could work without dual monitors now, literally saves a silly amount of time (those seconds switching add up!) I do wonder how people could use 4-5, I understand one being football :P
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the grim reaper" - Robert Alton Harris
Well, you manage. It's funny when I moved from two monitors to a single monitor (changed company) I started a movement to get two monitors for everybody. It didn't work. But the thing is, it took sometime to get used to single monitor again, but I eventually managed. What I don't understand is why companies loose the opportunity to have a boost in productivity when the price of a monitor is so low nowadays. To me it is just plain stupid.
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I don't think I could work without dual monitors now, literally saves a silly amount of time (those seconds switching add up!) I do wonder how people could use 4-5, I understand one being football :P
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the grim reaper" - Robert Alton Harris
Simon Lee Shugar wrote:
I don't think I could work without dual monitors now
I agree, I run one in portrait and the other in landscape. The portrait is great for code, web pages, and PDFs. The landscape is used for spreadsheets, Outlook, paint programs, and sub windows from VS.
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