ergonomy

Advice on buying a LCD monitor for development

I still use a 19" CRT monitor for my development (both at home and work), but now I'm looking for a wide-screen LCD monitor as my next purchase. As much as I look into it, I can't really find one that pleases me. The problem is that the LCD grid (the black lines in-between individual pixels) confuses me. CRT monitor don't have that prob...

Class member order in source code.

This has been asked before (question no. 308581), but that particular question and the answers are a bit C++ specific and a lot of things there are not really relevant in languages like Java or C#. The thing is, that even after refactorization, I find that there is a bit of mess in my source code files. I mean, the function bodies are a...

What is the best position to sit and to place your hands while you program?

Hi! Recently I've been more concerned about the way I sit while I code, I don't think I have any kind of injury yet but one of my coworkers had to take a couple of days off because of his column and I began to worry about this. So, how do you sit? how do you place your hands? Do you recommend any keyboard in special? any chair? I have b...

How can I make my programming environemnt more ergonomic with a cheap way?

For some time I am suffering some backaches and chest-aches after working at home in front of my lap-top. After 2 hours it starts suffering to squeeze on my computer. In the office there is no problem at all (we have big screens and desktops for sure). I do not know where to start to make it more ergonomic but a friend of mine offered m...

Good UI practice in Android, are there some sample code?

Hello all! I read carefully the good UI practice from the Google Dev Blog; http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/twitter-for-android-closer-look-at.html and I found that they are right and twitter is an application that I really love for its User Friendly Interface ( like the Google IO app too) As I spend most of my time deve...