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What do you do to help you work?
For me it's the following:
Also, feeding the ducks in the park is favourite for calming me down when I'm stressed ;)
Nick
I never ask men, to keen to show that they too know about computers ;)
Nick
Anyone find that if you play your music loud enough....it degrades your spelling? Must just be me :)
and...thinking about how im going to be lying in a hammock in the Carribean in 10 years time :)
Anyone find that if you play your music loud enough....it degrades your spelling?
Me too! I miss out whole words if I'm to into it and programming with loud music is a dicipline all it's own, sometimes the fact that there is so much distraction actually helps your concentration because you need to work that much harder ;)
Nick
20oz mug just to get rolling, then another 20oz to settle in. Absolute quiet is best. No phone calls, no music, nothing that will keep me from slipping into that kind of concentration where you look up and it's dark outside and you thought it was early afternoon.
Working out of the house - in my kitchen in fact - I stop to do dishes, stop to do laundry, stop to vacuum and sweep and if the weather is good I pull a few weeds. I drop kids off at school, pick them up from school, and shop. In between I work and work and work from 3 am to 7 pm.
Got to have my feet up while programming and be in a relaxed position. There has be a glass of water there and some candy.
not just any coffee either. Tim Hortons
For the rest of the world .. that's a billion dollar Canadian donut shop!
.. but the donuts are extra!
That and the coffee mug of doom [stuff.mivox.com], well-stocked with a nice latte.
And some good music
/Ove
Strangely none of you have mentioned the one thing that gets me focussed.
I do all those things cofee, music, silence, fags, forums etc but the thing that really gets me working is ..... a deadline with a nice cheque on it :-0
Traffic noise. I prefer silence, but I'll take what I can get.
WMW keeps me inspired also.
Hey, It's friday night and I'm doing my cinderella impression again. But I have beer so who cares?
Nick
Nick
Strangely, I can code just fine with music, but I can't write very well with it on. And I definitely can't edit writing with music on.
jon
Anyone find that if you play your music loud enough....it degrades your spelling?
Sometimes if my mind strays to something else, I'll start typing it out. Here's an example of some content I was writing while listening to Queen's "Seaside Rendezvous":
... the 3d matrix contains 3 array elements, one for the x-axis, the y-axis, and for the z-axis. When you underneath the moonlight, together we'll sail across the sea ...
It happened!
silence
it's golden you know.
especially for a tricky coding issue. a pad, pencil and golden silence to figure it out on paper.
WebmasterWorld lurking in the background...
friendly people in here help me get new things done ;) ;). Gotta agree tho, its easy to come to WMW and see if stickymail has went up one notch or one of IMO the better topics have a red dot next to them.
>Exercise
I forgot about that. Yeah, its good to feel fresh and active....I hate sitting at a computer for too long....makes me very irritable!! Mind you, im 20 so I guess the PC hasnt sucked all the life out me just yet ;)
I really need to get a comfy chair......and maybe a desk thats a few inches lower (getting the saw)....and THEN....I might actually get some work done!
Sometimes, in the afternoon, it's good to have some green tea...really seems to help with programming perl (maybe that's just me) :)
Oooo and a spot of tea or coffee do me fine to get me going but I switch to water by noon.
If, however, I'm doing data entry, surfing, playing with anything creative (like graphics, layouts, a new snippet of code) then I'll plug in some Celtic music and sip on a scotch. These tasks usually happen at the later part of the day (or evening) and are my reward for diligence.
