Where I Program - Independent Developer's Cribs

http://successfulsoftware.net/2009/07/27/where-i-program/

by hermitcrab • 17 years ago

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crux_• 17 years ago

Reminds me of the 'desktop pictures' from the LD48 contests. :)

(http://ludumdare.com)

The more ambitious folks record time-lapses of themselves (and their monitors).

frossie• 17 years ago

I found the 5 monitor setup is interesting. Some of our ops (!= programmer) people have multiple (>2 monitors) but I have found there's no much point going beyond 3, tops 4 because then you start losing sight of important things happening in them. In my experience it is much better to optimise the real estate on 2 widescreen or 3 regular monitors.

But hey, we're all different.

jamongkad• 17 years ago

I really dig offices with natural lighting in place. It creates a very homey atmosphere which is conducive to working on hard problems.

staunch• 17 years ago

I like it too, but I think I'm actually much more productive in a cave-like atmosphere...

biohacker42• 17 years ago

Same here, but long term it's not good for your mental state. Just like sprinting as hard as you can every day would ruin your knees.

pmichaud• 17 years ago

I like my office a lot, with two full walls of windows. I have enough room for two desks, 5 monitors, and a couch/coffee table for sitting and thinking. I use 3 monitors for my main computer, and I find that it's the perfect amount of real estate.

seldo• 17 years ago

I'm glad to see everybody seems to have 2+ widescreen monitors. Where I work, an amazing number of people work off a single laptop-sized screen all day. I don't understand how they can do it; it makes me wonder if I'm some kind of programmer-'tard who needs special equipment to function. Good to get some affirmation to the contrary.

jrockway2• 17 years ago

The equipment is not so important. I have written some great applications hunched over my 9" eeepc. Generally, I use a 24" monitor and happy hacking keyboard, though; which definitely makes things easier. (It also makes it easier to get distracted by HN, though.)

Retric• 17 years ago

I spent a while coding on a 15" Lenovo laptop and it works because the resolution is 1920 x 1200. I still like to use multiple monitors but it's not really necessary.

Worst coding environment was probably one of those CRT iMac's running OS 8.

there• 17 years ago

virtual workspaces, no doubt.

gurraman2• 17 years ago

I sit in front of my 24" monitor when working in the Flash IDE, Illustrator or PhotoShop; otherwise I prefer working directly on my laptop. I generally just keep an instance of MacVim, a terminal and a browser open; I find myself staying more focused this way -- albeit I miss having a source of reference open next to the editor at times.

jodrellblank• 17 years ago

Don't miss http://www.stefandidak.com/office/index.php

JustRick• 17 years ago

Just Setups on Flickr has a decent collection of people's work spaces. http://www.flickr.com/groups/justsetups/pool/

jrockway2• 17 years ago

Thanks for the link. It reminds me that I should really wall-mount my LCD.

Dobbs• 17 years ago

How can anyone stand those nasty apple keyboards. Apple makes wonderful computers but their keyboards and mice are some of the worst I have ever had the displesure of using.

gurraman2• 17 years ago

I concur with the notion of the mice being among the worst I've used, but I love their aluminum keyboards.

huhtenberg• 17 years ago

http://www.deskography.org/desks/top-rated

Most notably - http://www.deskography.org/media/desks/images/brian_desk_jpg...

jasonhonaker• 17 years ago

I haven't yet switched to multiple monitors. My laptop and I have been through so much coding together, it might just feel like cheating to start using my desktop.

ido• 17 years ago

Using a laptop's built-in keyboard & monitor for long stretches of time is unergonomic.

leftnode2• 17 years ago

Where I work: http://blog.leftnode.com/blog/entry/2

On an Amazon Door Desk I built myself, with whiteboard glued on the top for quick note jotting.

dugmartin• 17 years ago

I'm a big fan of the whiteboard top myself although lately I've switched to cheap spiralbound notebooks so that I can look back at my random notes.

leftnode2• 17 years ago

I have those for long term notes (notes from a meeting for example), but if a customer calls and I need to jot down a phone number or something really quick, having a whiteboard desktop is great.

Where I Program - Independent Developer's Cribs

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