Good Article on when to read your email and when to code. [Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog]
Excellent article. I can't work without headphones and I add Slashdot to my hosts file at work to prevent getting off-topic. My computer background while I was working on my thesis was, "You should be working."
As far as email, I found that I got more productive/effective with the following dual-head setup:
- 19" Monitor 1: Visual Studio or Word, Command prompts, etc.
- 19" Monitor 2: Outlook with the folder view almost fully expanded (I generally hide the 'Mailing Lists' folder): I can see where new mail goes and act/ignore immediately.
I found out the hard way that if I have Outlook closed, I tend to miss meetings.
It'd be neat to see Microsoft do studies about stuff like this: there's a large sample size, for sure... "When do you come into work? When/where do you eat lunch?" etc. (Didn't IBM do a study that showed that their developers spent like N% of the day walking around?)
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