What do you do while programming? And more important, what kind of music do you listen while programming? My habits are:
- Starting a new project: Rammstein – Sonne
- Taking over a project originally started by a junior programmer: Nightwish – Wish I had an angel
- I’m assigned to 5 years old project that uses really old technologies and frameworks: Weird Al Yankovich – Amish paradise
- Looking over a Perl script written by somebody else: Prodigy – Voodoo people
- After a long meeting with the project manager: Zebda – Hasta siempre
- Debugging (first 30 minutes): Rammstein – Ich will
- Debugging (after 30 minutes): Prodigy – Fire starter
- Looking for security flaws: MC Hammer – Can’t touch this
- When I see a QA guy heading for my desk: Nana – He’s coming
- When the project goes online: Britney Spears – Ops, I did it again (just kidding
) I’m having a brew and listen to Irish Rovers – Star of the county down
What do you listen to while coding?
I don’t have any specific songs I listen to in special cases. Mostly I listen to some kind of “hard” and “pushing” music. Mostly Electric or Hardcore. Prodigy is one of my favourites. Comeback Kid, Blood for Blood and some old Westbam Records are also always on my Pod.
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Start of working hours: Prodigy – Wake Up Call
30 minutes later: Progigy – Wake the Fuck Up
starting work: John Murphy – In a Heartbeat
working, but not feeling it: Foo Fighters – The Pretender
when a new task or email comes up: Bear McCreary All Along the Watchtower (BSG soundtrack)
when (I think) a project is finished: Kittie – Safe (KMFDM Remix)
When (I think) it’s mostly because of me: Incubus – Megalomaniac
When a new email with bugs and feature ideas: Sun Electric – Run Lola Run
After a suite of emails about bugs and feature ideas between manager: TechnoOpera (5th Element soundtrack)
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Start of working hours: Şuie Paparude – Sânge-n coaie
Fighting with the Israelis over design: Pink Floyd – Us and Them
Code freeze approaching: Queen – Under Pressure
After 7pm – Metallica – Enter Sandman
Before meetings: Pink Floyd – Careful with that axe, Eugene
After meetings: Peter Griffin – Camping Song
The music breaks my concentration, but if I would listen to something while working, I would choose anything from Rammstein.
Anyways, if I feel down before going to work, I often listen to “Always Look On The Bright Side of Life”, from “Life of Brian”. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ )
While my colleagues are drinking their coffees: Rolling Stones – Wild Horses
Beginning to code: Slash’s Snakepit – Serial Killer
My first induced bug: Rolling Stones – You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Fixing the bug: Bob Dylan – Tombstone Blues
Committing: Bill Haley & His Comets – See You Later Alligator
Like one of the posters above, listening to music breaks my concentration, so don’t listen much while working.
I had to laugh at the listening to MC Hammer while looking for security flaws.