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I never understood why people take their work laptops with them when they go on vacation/holiday. Why bother if you're going to be logged in and working, especially when either any problems will sort themselves out or they will still be there when you get back.
You've earned your rest - take it. I choose my destinations based on the LACK of Internet access. No computer, cell phone, email, nothing.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Quote: I never understood why people take their work laptops with them when they go on vacation/holiday.
The question didn't ask if you take a work laptop, it asked if you take a development machine.
I use my vacation time to write the software I want to write, so I take my personal laptop with me. I find it very therapeutic to sit by the sea, solving a problem I want to solve.
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When I leave the office for holiday, I tell people not to call me unless someone is on fire AND it's my fault AND I'm the only one who can do something about it. Otherwise, it can wait.
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So if the building is on fire, it's your fault, and you are the only one that can do anything about it, then you still don't want to be called? Nice 
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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That's right!  Call the fire department and the insurance company. Oh, and make sure everybody leaves the building.
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Dear Boss,
I'm going where there is no cell service, no internet, no phone service and no way to contact me...it's called vacation!
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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ronlease wrote: I tell people not to call me unless someone is on fire
I keep telling people that they should not call me in such an event.
Call the firefighters!
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I do take a laptop... but as a multimedia and not a developement device.
This way I can hear my music and see a couple of DVDs when I want and in the original length and not bloated up with advertisements.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I can and have rdp'd into my dev box with my phone. IT works. It isn't the best but it does work.
on vacation. I always take my tablet/work lappy that can rdp to my dev machine. I won't do it unless the world is basically on fire. But I have done it.
also, checking emails once a day for 15 minutes means that when I get back to work I don't have to spend a full day working thru them then. I quite often will check emails on vacation and then write the response that will only be sent once I am back from vacation. It gives the impression that I was unreachable without actually being so. and it teaches others to figure it out if they can. It works for me.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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The last time I recall doing some personal development while on vacation was in 2009.
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Ditto. With one employer it was typical that I'd bill half of my vacations as work time.
I solved that problem by finding a different job!
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If you take work with you it's not a vacation/holiday.
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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Rarely.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Brought a work laptop along on a 5-week vacation to Sweden and Norway in 1999.
Our car was broken into on day one, and the laptop was stolen. 
One of the best vacations ever. 
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Never needed it.
I don't bring it with me anymore, vacation is vacation.
One time it was suddenly really an issue that I was away for a week and my employer sent a replacement to my client (for four days, so useful!) and I spent some time on the phone telling my replacement where everything was.
And then there was that time when a coworker called me, which he never did, so my heart skipped a few beats before going into overdrive mode.
Called him back, wrong number, didn't even know he called me
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and getting some distance to work and its issues, so best is to ferget the problems, the trouble and the mysterious collegues and opaque managment.
My 30+ experience is: never meind leaving the trouble alone, you'll find it when you come back or was luckely solved when out.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Those who work on their holiday, deserve it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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When my wife & kids are on the beach / rafting down some god-forsaken river / etc., I finally have some peace and quiet to work on a personal project!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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