In Episode 11, we bring you two great blog posts by Jay Fields.

1. The Cost of Net Negative Producing Programmers

2. Thoughts on developer testing

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Episode 10 brings you, you guessed it, Jeff Atwood again. Sometimes I wonder where we (this show) would have been without Jeff Atwood's permission to use his thought provoking blog posts. Check out these posts used in this episode.

1. Paying Down Your Technical Debt

2. Who's Your Coding Buddy?

3. The Bad Apple: Group Poison

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More of Jeff Atwood in Episode 9. We have all made programming mistakes. Some serious and some not so serious. One thing to strive for is that you are learning from those mistakes. Jeff's recent post lists the Top 25 dangerous programming mistakes that should be avoided when bulding applications.

And here is the direct link to the post. Each mistake is briefly summarized but I urge you to click the links in the post to get additional insightful information

1. Top 25 Dangerous Programming Mistakes 

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Episode 8 brings you Jeff Atwood's 3 great posts from 2004 and 2005. Although it may seem like something from the past, the ideas presented are as relevant today as they were then.

Here are the direct links to the blog posts used

1. Don't Be afraid to break stuff

2. Good Programmers get off their butts

3. The Reality of Failure

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In Episode 7 we bring you more of Jay Fields.

Being part of the right team with motivated team members who pull their weight, makes the difference between winning and losing. Between great success and abject failure. The 3 posts featured here reflect Jay's views on what kind of teams he would like to build.

Links to posts used in this episode

1. Elitist or Optimist

2. Elephant in the server room

3. Developers needed, hackers need not apply

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In this episode we bring you an experiment by Alan Cyment, a software developer from Argentina. Alan is an evagelist for Aggiorno.

Aggiorno is a new generation of tools for software developers that uses advanced tranfsormational technologies, for turning any existing website into a valid, findable, acsessible standards compliant website.

Links to blogposts used in this episode

1. The Experiment

2. Reading Zeldman Aloud One

3. Reading Zeldman Aloud Two

4. Reading Zeldman Aloud Three

5. Reading Zeldman Aloud Four

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Episode 5 is all Jay Fields.

Congratulations to Jeff Atwood, Joel Spolsky, Jarrod Dixon, Geoff Dalgas and Jeremy Kartz on teh successful launch of the public beta of stackoverflow.com.

Links to blog posts used in this episode

1. Tests reflect code quality

2. Is being a niche language developer good for your career

3. Great Developers are hard to find

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Episode 4 brings you posts from Jon Davis and Jeff Atwood

Many software developers, including me, are impressed by raw skills professed by so called gurus. In his post "Why I'm unimpressed with rawness of skillz" Jon tells us why such bravado does and impress him.

Jeff Atwood reiterates something I advocate and demand from my team. I know my team mates are tired of me saying "check-in guys", but Jeff, in his post "Checkin Early, Checkin Often" outlines why it is a good practice and how it will help you in the long run.

Links to blog posts from this episode

1. Why I'm unimpressed with rawness of skillz

2. Checkin Early, Checkin often.

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In episode 3 of pixels2soundBytes we bring you blog posts from Ryan Farley and Jay Fields.

In his post The Work-At-Home Developer's Guide to Happiness, Ryan Farley offers tips and his experiences on how to be successful working from home and extract the maximum benefit out of it and find time to be happy. Working from home involves some compromises, but Ryan offers pointers on how to get the best out of the setup.

Jay Fields is a self-made successful software creator and in his post Be Your Start-up, he outlines and how to package yourself like a brand and promote it. Jay's career is proof itself how branding yourself can be effective in helping you propel your career as a software professional to greater hights.

Links to Blog Posts from this episode

1. The Work-At-Home Developer's Guide to Happiness

2. Be Your Start-up 

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In this episode we bring you Doug McCune's Why I Don't Read Books and Jeff Atwood's views in Programmers Don't Read Books - But You Should.

I believe Doug's experience with technical books is similar to most developers and anyone who has been burned by a Wrox book can attest to the general lack of quality in such books. With the advent of internet and programming support sites like stackoverflow.com, pure coding books might become less relevant but there is always a need to really good, classic books.

Check out Jeff's post for a picture of his bookshelf and links to buy some great software development books.

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