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Coding Environment

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:34 pm
by Bigun
Does the environment you code in effect how you code?

What's weird is that I when I am at work, I can code fairly easily...

But when I get home, I find it difficult. I'm not sure if it's the lighting, the desk, the monitor.... I have no idea.

What about you guys... what works best?

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:45 pm
by Todd_Z
It's much more my mood than my environment. Sometimes I am so productive and can work nonstop for 8 hrs, some days I get nothing done and just stare at the monitor.

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:02 am
by Luke
I work best when I'm in an environment I am used to working in and has all of the tools necessary to get what I need done. I get more work done when I am at my office than at home because my work environment at home is messy and unorganized.

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:13 am
by Chris Corbyn
Todd_Z wrote:It's much more my mood than my environment. Sometimes I am so productive and can work nonstop for 8 hrs, some days I get nothing done and just stare at the monitor.
I'm the same. I have to admit my motivation does drop as my room gets messier but I'm generally a very tidy person anyway so my version of "mess" isn't really a mess :P

Some days I'll sit there trying to to work but realise I've actually just been staring at the screen in a day dream for the past hour. If I'm at work I'll crack on with it because I have to.

I have a laptop (only a laptop!) so I often manage just fine sitting infront of the TV with the laptop on my knee watching footy or something. I tend to churn out code in bursts with a bit of procrastination (and tea/coffee) between each.

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:18 pm
by Todd_Z
Crappy TV is the bane of any programmer's existance.

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:24 pm
by Benjamin
When I write (complex) code I get really focused. If someone starts talking to me I either send the audio to /dev/null or if I respond it takes me a bit to get back on track again. I prefer to work at night when there aren't any distractions from cars/light/noise etc.

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:53 pm
by Bigun
astions wrote:When I write (complex) code I get really focused. If someone starts talking to me I either send the audio to /dev/null or if I respond it takes me a bit to get back on track again. I prefer to work at night when there aren't any distractions from cars/light/noise etc.
My wife yells at me when I start coding, because the first 30 or so seconds of audio aren't heard. She ends up having to repeat herself.

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 2:53 pm
by Benjamin
LOL

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 3:06 pm
by themurph
Anytime, anywhere.. as long as some sort of ambient radio station is availible :D

Soma Fm or Drone Zone off of iTunes is always nice to get into the rhythm.

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 3:20 pm
by Roja
Todd_Z wrote:Crappy TV is the bane of any programmer's existance.
Not this programmer. I watch more TV and Movies than most people can even imagine - and I do mean that literally. Conservatively, I estimate that I've seen roughly 1/4th of the break-even or better mass-market movies released between the early 80's and today. Thats a huge amount - and plenty of it is crap. Ditto to TV shows.

Worse, I can usually quote with strong accuracy, memorable lines from the movies. At work, most people know me as "The movie trivia guy", or simply "Mr.Moviephone".

TV is the background music that keeps me running. Its only when I get frantic that I shut the TV off, and start blasting loud music.

The code output from doing so is usually nightmarishly high-paced, and my back feels the pain of the effort afterward, so I don't do so often.

For me, bad TV in the background is the norm. Of course, "bad" is relative. :)

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:19 pm
by RobertGonzalez
As long as the kids are in their beds I can code. Except when the kids are in their beds AND the wife is in ours. Then, well, let's just say that coding suddenly becomes a whole lot less important...

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:46 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Everah wrote:Except when the kids are in their beds AND the wife is in ours. Then, well, let's just say that coding suddenly becomes a whole lot less important...
:lol: I'm just thinking back to a thread by scottayy... the coding seemed pretty important :lol:

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:47 pm
by Benjamin
Did I miss something here lol?

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:57 pm
by Chris Corbyn
astions wrote:Did I miss something here lol?
Nah... There were only a few of us who found it amusing that the thread started so interstingly about the chick but finished up being all about the use of style in <font> tags :P
scottayy wrote:I was teaching this chick HTML. So, as I'm going to bed.. i referred her to http://www.htmlgoodies.com to read a little bit more....
I'm laughing again now :lol: It's just the way he says it.

(Sorry scottayy, I'm laughing in a nice way :))

EDIT | I should mention that the reason I was so interested to find out what the crack was with the chick and going to bed was that the thread title was simply "WOW".

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:58 pm
by Benjamin
Haha that is funny. Good job Scotty, you sure know how to get em eh.