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[+48] [35] suhair
[2008-12-02 11:32:36]
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other than stackoverflow.

[+27] [2008-12-02 11:40:30] Nerdfest

The Daily WTF [1]! (And this one, of course)

[1] http://TheDailyWTF.com

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[+23] [2008-12-02 11:49:35] M. Utku ALTINKAYA

google.com


+1 - This is a rare exception to my personal rule of down-voting answers that tell you to use Google. :) - Bill the Lizard
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[+19] [2008-12-02 11:57:33] Echostorm [ACCEPTED]

Charlie Calvert (A LINQ and general C# guru from MS) http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/default.aspx

Coding4Fun http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/default.aspx

Fabulous Adventures In Coding (Insite into the future of C#) http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/default.aspx

Joel on Software http://www.joelonsoftware.com

Mike Taulty (An awesome Brit from MS who does amazing screencasts and exhaustive posts on new language features) http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/default.aspx

Sara Ford (Learn something new about your IDE) http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/default.aspx

Scott Hanselman (Perhaps the most relevant C# evangelist and a great speaker, teacher and blogger) http://www.hanselman.com/blog/

ScottGu (A must read.) http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/default.aspx

BCL Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/default.aspx

Eric Eilebrecht http://blogs.msdn.com/ericeil/default.aspx

Daniel Cazzulino (This guy is in a league of his own, always something clever that makes me feel stupid) http://www.clariusconsulting.net/blogs/kzu/default.aspx


(5) Joel on Software has unfortunately degenerated into little more than a series of advertisements for Joel`s business interests. The last original programmer-relevant post I can remember him making was abut 6 months ago. - Don
I know =o( but I still enjoy some of his articles in Inc and thoughts on developer workspace. - Echostorm
(2) 11 blogs every day? How do get any work done? - P Daddy
Thats only about half of my list. Most of them only update every other day but it helps to have desktopsidebar rotate them, I glance it now and then and see if anything looks good. I am however, unclear on how I get things done. =oD - Echostorm
thanks for this good list - suhair
(5) Looks like a very Windows-centric list though :) - Joril
I'm a C# developer. PHP blogs wouldn't do me quite as much good. - Echostorm
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[+18] [2008-12-02 13:09:54] Mike Woodhouse

Don't visit sites daily, subscribe to their RSS feeds using (insert your feed reader of choice here - I use Google Reader [1] )

If a site doesn't have an RSS (or Atom) feed, ignore it. If the content's any good you'll see it linked from a site that does.

That done, add a few of these (some already mentioned - I've given the feed links) :

[1] http://www.google.com/reader

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[+15] [2008-12-02 11:59:22] Janko Mivšek

Programming Reddit ! [1]

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/

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[+6] [2008-12-02 12:33:13] csl

Besides Reddit [1] and Slashdot [2], I've found that Hacker News [3] offers a lot of nice programming links.

[1] http://reddit.com
[2] http://slashdot.org
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com

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[+5] [2008-12-02 13:16:13] John Polling

A list apart [1] for info on web standards and other good front end practices

[1] http://www.alistapart.com

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[+4] [2008-12-02 11:41:27] Milan Babuškov

userfriendly.org [1]

:)

[1] http://www.userfriendly.org

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[+4] [2008-12-02 12:30:03] Ronald Conco
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[+3] [2008-12-02 11:54:10] rajesh pillai

Specifically for me the following in the order

The reason I visit these site is there are many interesting programming projects/articles on c#, asp.net, WPF, Silverlight, database and everything related to MS.

Besides there is also non work related content. Quite interesting read.

This is mostly related to Microsoft though Codeproject has started sections for php and LAMP users.

P.S : Don't flame me for highlighting MS as I work almost 100% on their technologies. These may be useful for someone.


just a style tip, include the http and the urls would have been auto-linked. or use the link button. also, that's actually an incorrect address for MSDN as it doesn't start with "www". Besides, www is way out of style. :) - halr9000
:) I will update this. - rajesh pillai
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[+3] [2008-12-02 12:08:50] user20358

In addition to the ones listed above

theserverside.net [.Net developers]

http://www.codinghorror.com/ [General reading]

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/ [if your interest is in SQL server databases]

http://www.databasejournal.com/ [if your interest is generally databases]

on some you find new stuff every day; some you dont.


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[+3] [2008-12-02 15:21:09] rmeador

From my RSS reader (use an RSS reader... you'll thank yourself later). They're nearly all blogs. I'm too lazy to get URLs, but a quick google search ought to get you the appropriate feeds:

  • A list apart
  • Coding Horror
  • High Scalability
  • Joel on Software
  • The Daily WTF
  • XKCD
  • KernelTrap
  • Daily Vim
  • Subversion Mailing lists (developer and user)
  • Duff's Device

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[+3] [2008-12-02 15:48:51] Yann Semet

www.dilbert.com [1]

:)

[1] http://www.dilbert.com

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[+2] [2008-12-02 11:42:34] VonC

For the java side:

[1] http://www.theserverside.com/
[2] http://planeteclipse.org/planet/
[3] http://planetjdk.org/

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[+2] [2008-12-02 13:34:18] Peter M

Not a daily read, but worth keeping tabs on:

The Risks-List [1] Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems

[1] http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks

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[+2] [2008-12-02 13:42:18] Oliver Ruehl
[1] http://webworkerdaily.com/
[2] http://www.delicious.com
[3] http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/
[4] http://liferemix.net/

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[+2] [2008-12-02 13:45:34] RobS

I've been reading Slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org) for a number of years (perhaps too many). Also of note: xkcd, of course. http://www.xkcd.com


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[+1] [2008-12-02 11:42:58] SDX2000

Well needless to say this is a very subjective matter. It squarely depends on your area(s) of interest. As for me I visit codeproject.com on a regular basis since I am most interested in Microsoft technologies.


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[+1] [2008-12-02 12:15:48] joveha

I find these interesting:

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/default.aspx

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[+1] [2008-12-02 19:21:29] colimateur

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com
Very insightful and always funny.


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[0] [2008-12-02 11:41:30] Nathan W

There are other websites :S...lol. I like to visit Scott Hanselman blog every day.


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[0] [2008-12-02 12:01:01] Galwegian

I used to really like The Daily Grind [1], but that's history now and I miss it.

I generally like to keep in touch with Codinghorror [2], Scott Hanselman's and Scott Guthrie's blog whenever I can now.

[1] http://www.larkware.com/
[2] http://codinghorror.com

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[0] [2008-12-02 12:20:22] user42416

Basic Web Programming site: w3schools [1]

PHP Programming [2]

sourceforge.com

[1] http://www.w3schools.com/
[2] http://php.net

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[0] [2008-12-02 13:47:08] rajesh pillai

Have a look at Catch22.net [1]

Excellent resource for WIN32 programming. I know this may seem odd in the world of .NET, but there are really gems of articles.

In fact look at Neatpad [2] article series. Really cool. I hope to see more on this site.

[1] http://catch22.net/
[2] http://catch22.net/tuts/neatpad

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[0] [2008-12-02 19:08:57] Ather

For those programmers leading a team of programmers:

www.manager-tools.com

Generally, if I am interested in some specific topic or details about some technology, or for that matter anything, I set up Google Alerts for it:

www.google.com/alerts

That is an excellent way to get a diverse digest of what currently interests you.


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[0] [2008-12-02 19:37:35] rich

Here are some java-related feeds..

  • The Server Side - http://feeds.feedburner.com/techtarget/tsscom/home
  • The Java Posse - http://feeds.feedburner.com/javaposse
  • Java Dot Net - http://weblogs.java.net/pub/q/weblogs_rss?x-ver=1.0
  • Spring Framework - http://springframework.org/node/feed
  • Cafe au Lait - http://www.cafeaulait.org/today.rss
  • Sun Java - http://developers.sun.com/rss/java.xml
  • DevX - http://services.devx.com/outgoing/javafeed.xml
  • OnJava - http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/feed/7?format=rss1
  • No Fluff Just Stuff Podcasts - http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/s/podcast/itunes.xml
  • Spring Loaded - http://www.jroller.com/habuma/feed/entries/rss
  • Agile Developer / Java - http://www.agiledeveloper.com/blog/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRssCategory?categoryName=Java
  • Agile Developer / Groovy - http://www.agiledeveloper.com/blog/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRssCategory?categoryName=Groovy

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[0] [2008-12-02 19:42:26] Tarski
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[0] [2008-12-02 20:39:09] Pawka

Almost all my daily reading you all have wrote before, but there is one more for MySQL users: MySQL Performance Blog [1]

[1] http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/

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[0] [2008-12-02 20:57:22] Rolf

http://www.google.com/

Other than that, you can use RSS readers, but none of the feeds I read require daily checking (and I read a lot of feeds, largely covered by posts here).


already mentioned at stackoverflow.com/questions/333701/… - NightCoder
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[0] [2008-12-03 02:43:42] skiphoppy

https://slashdot.org/ [Be a subscriber, and you get to use https!]

http://www.oreilly.com/

http://use.perl.org/


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[0] [2008-12-03 02:50:18] notruthless

Highlights from my RSS Reader:

• Coding Horror http://feeds.feedburner.com/codinghorror

• Stevey's Blog Rants http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

• Ned Batchelder's blog http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/rss.xml

• CIO - Blogs and Discussion - Developer Wisdom http://feeds.cio.com/cioao/taxonomy/362 (This may seem off topic, but I like the broader perspective, for example this post [1] about what to do if a former employer calls about a bug... )

But I just found stackoverflow and it's definitely my new favorite :)

[1] http://advice.cio.com/esther_schindler/its_your_bug_but_its_not_your_job_anymore

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[0] [2010-06-10 07:14:36] Lee Englestone

The ones already mentioned (Scott G and Scott H, Coding Horror) and the following

http://www.themorningbrew.net (A must visit)

http://www.smashingmagazine.com


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[0] [2010-11-12 10:01:34] Dienekes

For people primarily working on the web (and with MS technologies), Rick Strahl's Web Log [1] would be quite useful.

[1] http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/default.aspx

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[0] [2011-10-07 16:37:04] Gary Barrett
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[-1] [2008-12-03 07:39:29] Chinmay

www.codinghorror.com [1]

www.stackoverflow.com [2]

www.theserverside.com [3]

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com
[2] http://www.stackoverflow.com
[3] http://www.theserverside.com

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