So what do you have open right now on your machine? Is that pretty standard? Anything else you normally have open (for work / home?)?
Right now I’m at work, and on my work PC we have:
- Outlook 2007
Have I mentioned how much I love Office 2007?
- Interaction Client
Our phone system is software-based. This app serves as a gateway to all its wonderful features - company directory, caller ID, etc. etc. etc.
- Firefox
7 tabs open - Local copy of the site I’m developing, production copy of the site I’m developing, our internal Flyspray bug tracker, a random PHP.net documentation page, an Oracle function documentation page, and the stylesheet for some random site
- PL/SQL Developer
2 copies - One test / development server, one production server. Usually there are many more copies open - 2 servers x 2 or 3 users - 5 or 6 instances with countless queries, procedures, etc. open are quite normal.
- Easy Eclipse
LAMP (+Oracle - LAMPO?) configuration for site development.
- Visual Source Safe
Microsoft’s aging source code control system. It’s no SVN, but the interface is so simple a 2 year old could probably roll back my latest screw-up.
- MMC Window
The Microsoft Management Console has all my Exchange server and Active Directory management snap-in’s configured. Sadly, I spend so much time in here that it just hangs around in my taskbar all the time.
- Windows Explorer
3 windows - My network home directory (specifically my saved SQL queries and results folder), my htdocs directory, and a set of data files I’m importing into our system.
- ANSI 837 Importer
Our home-brewed ANSI 837 health insurance claim EDI importer. At the moment it’s eating half my RAM importing a 100MB text file of claims data into our database. Fun times…
My laptop is much simpler:
- Firefox
5 tabs - Google IG homepage, (mt) Account Center, 2x Google Apps for Domains GMail inboxes, and this write post page.
- iTunes
Gotta have coding music!
- NetNewsWire
Mmmm… RSS is yummy!
- XChat Aqua
Gotta keep up with fellow Wordpress-loving geeks!
So those are my machines at the moment, and pretty standard. Give or take a Photoshop and Textmate session on my laptop, and that’s about it. How about you?
What’s Open on Your Machine?
So what do you have open right now on your machine? Is that pretty standard? Anything else you normally have open (for work / home?)?
Right now I’m at work, and on my work PC we have:
Have I mentioned how much I love Office 2007?
Our phone system is software-based. This app serves as a gateway to all its wonderful features - company directory, caller ID, etc. etc. etc.
7 tabs open - Local copy of the site I’m developing, production copy of the site I’m developing, our internal Flyspray bug tracker, a random PHP.net documentation page, an Oracle function documentation page, and the stylesheet for some random site1
2 copies - One test / development server, one production server. Usually there are many more copies open - 2 servers x 2 or 3 users - 5 or 6 instances with countless queries, procedures, etc. open are quite normal.
LAMP (+Oracle - LAMPO?) configuration for site development.
Microsoft’s aging source code control system. It’s no SVN, but the interface is so simple a 2 year old could probably roll back my latest screw-up.
The Microsoft Management Console has all my Exchange server and Active Directory management snap-in’s configured. Sadly, I spend so much time in here that it just hangs around in my taskbar all the time.
3 windows - My network home directory (specifically my saved SQL queries and results folder), my htdocs directory, and a set of data files I’m importing into our system.
Our home-brewed ANSI 837 health insurance claim EDI importer. At the moment it’s eating half my RAM importing a 100MB text file of claims data into our database. Fun times…
My laptop is much simpler:
5 tabs - Google IG homepage, (mt) Account Center, 2x Google Apps for Domains GMail inboxes, and this write post page.
Gotta have coding music!
Mmmm… RSS is yummy!
Gotta keep up with fellow Wordpress-loving geeks!
So those are my machines at the moment, and pretty standard. Give or take a Photoshop and Textmate session on my laptop, and that’s about it. How about you?