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copied!<p>Items I use or attempt to get for development environments:</p> <ul> <li><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9388/actual-productivity-gains-from-multiple-monitors">More than one montor</a> - you can never have too much screen real estate.</p></li> <li><p>A <a href="http://gizmodo.com/archives/rubberbladed-propello-fan-016411.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Black & Blum Propello Fan</a> - alleviates stuffiness and thery're very quiet. Poking your finger into the fan gets good reactions ;-}</p></li> <li><p>A variety of free software tools, even if using Windows. Specifically: <a href="http://www.activestate.com/Products/activepython/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ActiveState Python</a>, <a href="http://www.vim.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">vim</a>, <a href="http://www.cygwin.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Cygwin</a> and/or <a href="http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">unixutils</a> (the latter are based on msvcrt.dll and integrate better with command files). Sometimes I have occasion to use <a href="http://miktex.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MikTeX</a>.</p></li> <li><p>If possible, an <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">office.</a> Sadly, often this is not possible, but I did some of my most productive work in a horrible 1950's building in a hospital once. The secret: offices. It was laid out like most buildings of the era - long and narrow with a corridor down the middle and offices on either side. Simply not having the distractions of an open-plan building did wonders for my ability to concentrate on my work.</p></li> </ul>

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