I hate working in silence. Better said, I'd love working in silence if I had water coolers in my PC. What I can't stand is the noise coming out from my PC. So I turn to music.

The first thing that comes to mind is to listen to electronic music, specifically trance. I'm in a trance group so listening to the newest releases while developing web applications looks like efficient, doesn't it? But it just doesn't work. I've tried this so many times and it turns out that I can't work while listening to any kind of commercial music.

Here comes classical music into the picture. It not only helps me to fight the noise, it doubles or triples my efficiency. And I seem to love it. I even tried chillout and ambient; it doesn't work. Don't ask me about the reason. It might be the violins or even the sound itself, I really have no idea.

Gregory Beaver probably knows the answer. He puts an awesome amount of work into the installer infrastructure of PEAR. He is a member of The Chiara String Quartet. I'm looking forward to see them releasing a CD. Maybe Greg's secret is their own music, who knows :) I'm gonna ask him one day.