Comments on: The home office setup – part I

By: Gary Corcoran

Gary Corcoran — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:51:33 +0000

Now this is a cool post, good to see some people can work from home well, even with the wife

A couple of issues I would have would be, investing in an imac, is it good to distinguish between the laptop and the computer? Are you tempted to bring the macbook in for Dr Phi If you go for two then how do you synch your work between the two??

How do you stop working in the evening, being a developer I’m constantly thinking of solutions to problems, ideas, and with a couple of clients down under getting a few late night change request emails.

By: James

James — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:16:49 +0000

[...] rent / space. You need to factor it in in some way. See my post on the home office setup for my [...]

By: James

James — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:35:25 +0000

@Kevin The TV just sounds Dangerous which reminds me I must bring my Wii over
I’ve looked at the iMac’s and kinda worry about what it’d be like to just go back to the MacBook Pro when travelling / working from Ireland so I’ll probably hold off for a bit on that front
Had to look up the DanBo bit .. very cool .. I wanted to get some lego men but haven’t found the ones I want here (though I might just have to bite the bullet)

@Keith Thanks Keith ( I’m now seeing the typos and mistakes in the post … I must read over again before posting ) Will hopefully get some pics up today or tomorrow of the “competed” office

@Peter Luckily the lure of the couch / tv downstairs doesn’t affect me too much as its all spanish TV and the Wii is in Ireland

The cat is great … you don’t have to walk him .. and he sits happily behind my laptop or comes up for a cuddle (amazingly he knows when I’m really stressed and just comes up) so definitely something to think about (and I used hate cats)

By: Peter Armstrong

Peter Armstrong — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:17:39 +0000

Very good post James. I’ve had my own office for a few years too. It’s great for working in but unfortunately there’s also a very comfy couch and TV in the next room which often lures me out of working in the office.

I wouldn’t have the time for a cat/dog but I recently got a fish tank for the office and 3 gold fish which helps me de-stress.

I’d definitely recommend anyone who is self-employed gets a proper office space without a TV or anything else to disturb you. There’s no comparison.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:05:07 +0000

Nice post James, love the insight into your freelance life and office pics never go astray.

I might do the same

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:38:19 +0000

Mine consists of:

A single, large(ish) table (which has a higher plane on which to place monitors and store things underneath which is neat!)
A rather uncomfortable chair, which needs to be replaced ASAP
A 24″ iMac
A 15″ Macbook Pro
A 19″ monitor hooked up to a self-built uber PC (on the floor)
A plethora of mice, keyboards, mouse pads, hard drives and for some reason, loose change.
An Apple Time Capsule
A Lamp
A whiteboard for the wall in front of me to jot notes down on… especially when working on large projects with lots of crappy PHP or Java…
Next to it I have a 40″ Samsung 6-series TV pointed in my direction with a PS3, 360 & Wii plugged into it. You know, for research

My Mascot is a nice Solid Snake figure thing. I do also have a DanBo thing. But he’s really just a photography model