In my previous post, I talked about the importance of good monitors to a developer. Today, I will show you a bit more about the setup that is slowly taking root in my home office, where all of my TechRepublic magic (blogs, articles, downloads, etc.) occurs!

Is this picture, we have my desk, complete with the two monitors (yes, that is Outlook 2007 and Word 2007):

 

As you can see, I can comfortably fit a Web browser, Outlook, Word, my taskbar, and instant messaging all in the foreground or near background with little loss of horizontal space compared to a traditional single full-sized monitor setup.

The monitors are an LG1732TQ (17