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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Enjoy!

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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From the studios of pixels2soundBytes in Atlanta, Georgia, we bring you the very first episode of the pixels2soundBytes podcast.

In this episode we look at the history of this show. Also included is an audio rendering of Jeff Atwood's blog post "Dealing with Bad Apples".

The music heard on the show is courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network.

Link's to blogs mentioned in this episode

1. Greg Johnson's blog
2. Ramesh Sringeri's 5:01 Developer Post and Scott Hanselman's excellent follow up.
3. Phil Haack's you've been HAACKED

Welcome to pixels2soundBytes a show that brings you audio
renderings of articles and blog posts written by Software
Developer community leaders.

We are working on the first show and will be on-air soon!!

We are extremely grateful to Jeff Atwood of CodingHorror fame and Phil Haack, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft for granting us permission to podcastize their blog entries.

If you are a blog author and would like to include your posts in this podcast please email your permission to do so and include a link to your blog

If you would like for us to contact a blog author you like please let us know and we will try to get the required permissions

Feedback welcome at pixels2soundBytes@gmail.com