Long time ago (more than a year now), Dan Fernandez, a former MS VC# PM,, current MS VS Express PM and one of my favourite Microsoft heros blogged about a great DJ friend who likes to be called DJ Bolivia, and, it seemed that Dan found out that as almost every developer likes to listen to music while working (I'm not an exception BTW), it'd be great to have some music composed espcially for developers. Later on, DJ Bolivia responded as he seemed to like the idea; he released 3 parts/volumes mix series called “Music To Code By” that you wouldn't love to miss!
Two days ago, Dan posted about the release of the 4th volume and I found the 5th when I went to check the series page. I also found that the series is now being extended to 6 parts/volumes. This is pretty cool if you'd consider my opinion, and the other cool thing is the titles of the volumes; You see “I never expected this”, “Memory Leak”, “Exception Handler”!, “The Power of Blogs” :), “Hunt the wumpus”.
The mixes are in MP3 and RM formats, both with great sound quality. You can see other mixes for DJ Bolivia on the same page as well.
One last note: I know I seemed to return to the long hibernation between every post and another. This is not because of some of the replies I got on my other post (although I'm counting them in mind as some points in them were typical although others I think are not so right). It's just me being loaded with some weird project, plus getting into the world of engineering study. A quick hint for you however is: if you want to know what to bet on these days. This would be code generation and related O/R Mapping stuff (including DLINQ), and if you are an ASP.NET developer, the architectural aspects of ASP.NET 2.0, like the provider model and so, and if you're a WinForms developer, the smart clients issues liek partially connected scenarios, and related chaching issues and so, and in general, control development. This is getting raapidly needed day after another, with AJAX in mind if you're developing web controls, and ATLAS specifically if you're developing ASP.NET applications. Also the SOA architecture, including primarily the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), as it'll change the way you implement it (to the better of course - maybe I'll post some related resources on that later). OH, is that much? I thought I might be able to make a small list (at least for myself not even for you all), but it seems that this is not quite possible; I didn't even mention more many things :-S.
Anyway, go download the mixes and go ahead with what you'd like to start with. ;-).
Happy Coding...