through sewell's eyes

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Workspace 2.0

I upgraded my workspace at work yesterday. I got two 20"-wide monitors and running them in dual view mode. It is really great. I know, I know, people have been doing to quite a while. Well now, I'm finally one of them! And for those on 2+ monitors are not using UltraMon, then you aren't taking advantage of your setup.

It has taken a little bit of time to get use to, but I love it. It will make development a lot easier now that I don't have to Alt-Tab all the time. These are a couple of things I see that will be helpful right away.
Examples:
  • Reading the API guide on one monitor while having my IDE on the monitor.
  • Viewing the same website using IE and Firefox side by side.
  • Debugging windows on one side and the program on the other.
  • IDE on one, Outlook/Trillian on the other.
  • Pretend I'm at the beach.. =)


There are probably other ways that will help be in being efficient while working. Now, the question is if I should get another one? Hmmm....


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