I couldn’t help myself – this “Bill of Rights” is appropriate to just about anyone who is paid real money (including the “Aussie Lira”, at anything much above minimum wage) to do any sort of developing or designing.

Without Further Ado: Programmers Bill of Rights.

The first two are the most important though –

1) Every programmer shall have two monitors

2) Every programmer shall have a fast PC

Incidentally, this is just what I’m trying to convince the powers that be at work (a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz laptop w/ 512M ram is just not cutting it).

Even my old PC at home Athlon 1800XP w/ 1GB RAM was still outperforming this laptop 5-1.
Then I upgraded to an Athlon 64 3500+ w/ 2GB RAM – and it’s now great for developing on.