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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