A couple of days ago I finally asked to my department administrator (a serious name for a nice and tiny girl 8), if I could get a second monitor.
I was practically the only one left with one monitor, and I was starting to feel a bit uneasy.. was I missing on something ?

I only had one day to actually use the dual monitor setting and it seems like it's useful indeed. But more testing is necessary. Will it become a second nature ?!

I can't help but thinking that one of the reasons why dual monitors come so handy is the choice of Windows of having a window full come in foreground when one clicks on it.
I think there are utilities out there to tweak this behavior, but those never quite work for me.

Generally I think I do great switching around applications, but in some cases, when one has code in one window and documentation in the other window, then things tend to get pretty messy: copy, switch, paste, switch, forget, switch, switch, forget, learn, paste... ehhh !!  read more »