Sunday, 17 August 2014

Monitors

After reading the pragmatic health book I looked at a number of monitors, only one I could find that is light sensitive and low blue, the BenQ BL2410PT. Lots of good points and a few not so great.

Monitor with black surround showing autotrader and luminous worm to one side

 Note: The worm is for rubber duck development also makes the place look a bit cooler.

The good over my old 24" monitor, no eye pain and headaches. I do not know if this is the low blue, height adjustment, flicker free or reminder to look away however it just works. The only bad point is that it cannot be set to low blue and auto brightness however the auto brightness works well in standard mode for gaming.

I got talking to the guys at work about second monitors and context switching, I am limited by desk space at the moment. They are very much fans of multi-monitor setups. Behold the bosses beast setup.

monitor tree holding 4 monitors and a laptop running on the left


Been reading quite a bit, handy to have tech book and book about tech which doesn't require a lot of learning. This book is packed with tips and some I am trying out already. 

white book with black text refactor your wetware with what looks like grey brain cells with colours between them


The whole use your right brain thing to complete tasks is useful. As someone who can't draw and getting the right brain to draw was amazing for me to actually do it (close enough).



I am yet to try the personal wiki, as I take a lot of notes and they are disorganised so this could be the thing I need.

Using the SQ3R method of reading text books, I am going to give this a go with T-SQL fundamentals although not a massive book will take time.

I am also planning for unemployment, this sucks as I like to work and slows down my own development as I cannot buy books and other fun things like pluralsite. Do I go mad with OU and do as much as I can or code like mad have a look at open source projects and see what I can do. Lots to think about. Sad really as I have seen the project become so much better over the last two years.



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