Be productive

Roy wrote a good long post about productivity.

I say that his post should have the title : Be curious.

A developer must be curious, look everything that could increase his knowledge.

Excerpt from Roy:

 Even a Tabbed browser instead of good ol' IE makes it easier to find information while removing lots of clutter from your desktop. AvantBrowser is a good free one.

On this I disagree. This is huge debate, but developers should work with a default browser, without any gizmos or fancy toolbars.
We must consider working in generic mode, and you can't guess what the final user has on their computers, neither their type of computers.

I had the recent experience to code a website fullscreen for 800*600 screen, and the client complain that he couldn't see the full page.
Everything was fine on my side, and I discover that he installed a toolbar under the normal one with google search and other fancy tools.

2 Comments

  • I disagree. You as a programmer should be able to distinguish *your* environment and the users. Changing a browser to enable you to deliver more value per unit of time for a client should not be effecting how you test an app in ovbious ways.





    To totally isolate things I go so far as to run websites in virgin OS installs in VMWare machines. Then start applying patches until I am current and everything is working.





    adam...

  • For a web app what a waste of time ! Using vm to test a win app ok, but if you have a standard browser, you will find more efficient to have a standard set of tools

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