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[+164] [101] Christopher Cashell
[2008-09-17 01:33:06]
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There are lots of great resources available on the Internet for learning more about programming and improving your skills. Blogs are one of the best, IMO. There's a wealth of knowledge and experience, much of it covering topics not often found in traditional books, and the increased community aspect helps to bring in multiple viewpoints and ideas.

We're probably all familiar with Coding Horror [1] and Joel on Software [2] (so no need to mention them), but what are the other great ones out there? What are the Blogs that you find yourself following most closely? Where you see the best new ideas, the most interesting or informative ideas, or just the posts that make you sit back and think?

One Blog per answer, and then we'll vote up the best so we can all learn from them.

If you're going to give all the good answers yourself, you'll turn out to be a reputation shark. Let the other people answer. - Jon Limjap
It wasn't my intention to 'give all the good answers', I was just throwing out the ones that I personally follow most closely because I already know those. I'm looking for new ones to follow, and hoping I'll find a bunch here. - Christopher Cashell
You can also edit them directly into your question. - Roger Ween
i dont think saying 1 per answer is a good idea, this list is going to get long and full of duplicates because people will be answering this thing 10 times each. - Kevin Sheffield
Hrm. I hadn't thought of that. That's a good idea, particularly for Coding Horror and Joel on Software, considering that they're the people behind this site. I'll delete the Answers and add them to the question. - Christopher Cashell
It may get long, but if people vote up the good ones, then they'll be easier to pick out and find. I agree, there will be duplicates, but hopefully people will only vote up the first mention of each blog. - Christopher Cashell
by listing coding horror and joel on software, you've cheated all the other suck-ups out of their opportunity ;-) - Steven A. Lowe
Heh I went to ask this but thought it was a duplicate. It's handy to have though. - Graphain
It would be great if someone could organize all the answers in a list instead of having to scroll down this giant page. - Anton
@Anton - sounds like the OP should do that editing his question :) - Alvaro Rodriguez
So many answers and no single one deals with 3d graphics =,( - Dave
I don't see any particular reason they would. That's not what the question asked for. - JoshJordan
[+93] [2008-09-17 01:33:49] Christopher Cashell

The Daily WTF [1] - Helping us learn from our own collective (bone-headed) mistakes.

[1] http://thedailywtf.com/

(6) the first few posts I read were about hardware! This whole friggin' site should be shut down as "not-programming-related." Perhaps the whole Internet! - Yar
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[+71] [2008-09-17 17:25:41] Jurgen Appelo

Here's the Top 10 development blogs...

  1. Joel on Software [1] (Joel Spolsky)
  2. Coding Horror [2] (Jeff Atwood)
  3. Seth's Blog [3] (Seth Godin)
  4. Paul Graham: Essays [4] (Paul Graham)
  5. blog.pmarca.com [5] (Marc Andreessen)
  6. Rough Type [6] (Nicholas Carr)
  7. Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen [7] (Scott Hanselman)
  8. Martin Fowler's Bliki [8] (Martin Fowler)
  9. Rands in Repose [9] (Michael Lopp)
  10. Stevey's Blog Rants [10] (Steve Yegge)

and you can find the rest of the Top 100 Blogs here [11].

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
[2] http://www.codinghorror.com/
[3] http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
[4] http://www.paulgraham.com/
[5] http://blog.pmarca.com/
[6] http://www.roughtype.com/
[7] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/
[8] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/
[9] http://www.randsinrepose.com/
[10] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/
[11] http://www.noop.nl/2008/09/top-100-blogs-for-development-managers-q3-2008.html

+1 for Coding Horror - bedwyr
This answer is worth a bookmark (and I very very very rarely use bookmarks, just use them for very important websites) ! :) - frunsi
Separate answers would be better – that way the voting system would more accurately show what the community considers the best ones. - Jonik
My blog didn't make this list! ;-( - Frank V
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[+53] [2008-09-17 01:34:41] NimsDotNet

Coding Horror [1] from our own Jeff Attwood :)

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/

(26) Jeff's blog has got to be about the worst for real useful information. Some might find it entertaining, but how can you take him seriously is he has never coded in C and cannot understand what NP Complete means? My lord! - Tim
Tim, maybe perhaps it does not matter for the things he do? - icelava
(1) @tim - He has coded in C. Did you miss the post on how he hated "The C Programming Language"? - Lucas Jones
(35) does it really matter he has never coded in C? does it really matter he didn't get NP complete explanation right? look at stackoverflow, it's one of the best designed pieces of software on the internet right now. he certainly got some things right and those that he didn't... well, hands up who knows everything and has nothing more to learn! - lubos hasko
(4) @tim With the assumption that you are not joking... why does it matter if someone has never coded in C? I've never coded in C, I've also never coded in Perl, Delphi, Objective-C etc... Hell a lot of developers might even not have written JavaScript! - Kragen
(7) @tim, I've programmed in C and learned about NP Completeness during my CS degree. However I can't take someone seriously who thinks that these are so essential to being a good developer. - Ash
Jumping sharks since Fonzi... ;)~ - Evan Plaice
(1) Coding Horror used to be my favorite specifically because Jeff posted a lot and on a lot of esoteric topics. Now we're lucky to see a post once a month. Coding Horror is starting to feel like abandon-ware which is why I searched for a post on other good programming related blogs. - DMKing
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[+51] [2008-09-17 01:42:18] Alvaro Rodriguez

Steve Yegge's blog [1]

[1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/

(19) Frankly, I find it completelly unreadable. This guy spends a thousand words to say what could be expressed in one. - Nemanja Trifunovic
His verbosity is the stuff of legend. However he does make some very relevant points, if you have the patience to endure his writing. I like Paul Graham better though, but he's been voted less. Go Figure. - Alvaro Rodriguez
(1) Reading Yegge is like reading Walden. There's a lot in it, and a lot of effort required to get it out. - CAD bloke
I really like reading Yegge, although I think sometimes he makes the odd leap that is a bit of a stretch. - Quibblesome
(16) People don't read Yegge for the same reason they don't read anything anymore. They have perpetual ADHD. Why just the other day I was in the bookstOH LOOK A SQUIRREL! - Robert Harvey
Nemanja: If you could summarize his articles in one word, I'm sure we'd all love to hear those single words. - Ken
I'm glad to see he's back to blogging. I wouldn't count myself as a fan, but I like to read his entries. There's some stuff in there occasionally that's really good even though most of it makes me wonder if he's ever visited the real world. Whether you agree with him or not, it's worth the time to decode the posts. :-) - Brian Knoblauch
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[+43] [2008-09-17 02:00:10] Leonardo

Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing [1]

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

even though win32 specific (and in the last 2 years most of his posts are "you is n00b, read the error message"), I strongly recommend it for every one - elcuco
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[+39] [2008-09-17 02:21:12] Alvaro Rodriguez

Arguably not a blog, but Paul Graham [1] has a great collection of essays. Of special interest if you are considering to, or already running, a startup.

I'd strongly encourage you to read all essays.

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

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[+36] [2008-09-17 01:38:48] David Negron

Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen.com [1]

[1] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/

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[+29] [2008-09-17 01:43:24] Bryant

The Daily Dilbert Strip [1]

[1] http://feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip

yes! it sheds a light on many perversions we endure without even noticing anymore! - Manrico Corazzi
says more about the software industry than steve yegge in only a dozen words a day.. - Dexter
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[+22] [2008-09-17 01:44:40] Alvaro Rodriguez

Rands in Repose [1]

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

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[+20] [2008-09-17 01:34:23] Christopher Cashell

Lambda The Ultimate [1] - For the Computer Scientist inside us all ;-)

[1] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

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[+19] [2008-09-17 04:08:49] Yitzchok

The blog of Oren Eini (aka Ayende Rahien) [1]

[1] http://www.ayende.com/Blog/

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[+14] [2008-09-17 09:11:42] Linulin

Joel on Software [1]

(I'm really curious to see it's position among other blogs in the vote.)

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

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[+14] [2008-09-17 02:06:30] Leonardo

Oh, and you've been haacked [1]

[1] http://haacked.com/

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[+12] [2008-09-17 02:31:39] DGentry

Gustavo Duarte [1] for low level topics, close to the hardware.

[1] http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/

Nice one, good blog... - Tim Ring
YES! I have learned so much from this one blog it's ridiculous. - Dinah
This a good one. - jfs
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[+11] [2008-09-17 01:45:37] jtong

Misko Hevery's Blog [1]

[1] http://misko.hevery.com/

He's a great agile coach at Google. You MUST see his talks ("The Clean Code Talks", search youtube for them). - Igor Popov
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[+11] [2009-12-07 17:24:43] Dave

Fabulous Adventures In Coding [1]

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/

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[+10] [2008-09-17 02:36:38] Bullines

Nobody's mentioned CodeBetter [1] yet, so I'll add that one to the list.

[1] http://codebetter.com/

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[+10] [2008-09-17 02:44:37] Quintin Robinson

I know most of these were mentioned.. but I check them regularly. Most of them are .NET centric

Scott Guthrie [1]

Scott Hanselman [2]

Coding Horror [3]

Haacked [4]

Carnage4Life [5]

[1] http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/
[2] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/
[3] http://www.codinghorror.com/
[4] http://Haacked.com
[5] http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/

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[+9] [2008-09-17 01:40:37] Howler

Coding4Fun [1]

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/default.aspx

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[+7] [2008-09-17 02:34:14] DGentry

Joe Armstrong [1], mostly covering Erlang.

[1] http://armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com/

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[+7] [2008-09-17 01:35:55] Christopher Cashell

Tim Bray's Ongoing [1]

[1] http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/

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[+6] [2008-09-17 01:53:49] brodie

There is a comprehensive list "Top 100 Blogs for Development Managers" [1] put together by Jurgen Appelo [2] at his blog [3]

He also includes a opml file for easily importing this list into your rss reader.

EDIT: Here's the latest list "Top 100 Blogs for Developers (Q1 2009)" [4] ... and no surprises that Joel and Jeff are at the top there ;-)

[1] http://www.noop.nl/2008/09/top-100-blogs-for-development-managers-q3-2008.html
[2] http://nooperation.typepad.com/about.html
[3] http://www.noop.nl/
[4] http://www.noop.nl/2009/03/top-100-blogs-for-developers-q1-2009.html

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[+6] [2008-09-17 02:39:43] kbaribeau

The google testing blog [1] is pretty kickass.

Also, I don't think anyone has yet mentioned Martin Fowler's bliki [2], but it contains a ton of gems from one of the most well respected minds in the industry.

If you're interested at all in scalability, you should watch highscalability.com [3]

[1] http://googletesting.blogspot.com/
[2] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/
[3] http://highscalability.com

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[+6] [2008-09-17 08:18:18] bahadorn

http://martinfowler.com/bliki (one item per answer!)


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[+4] [2008-09-17 02:36:42] DGentry

Yossi Kreinin [1], covering mostly low level topics close to the hardware. He has an account on stackoverflow [2], though he is not very active here.

[1] http://www.yosefk.com/blog/
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/users/1648/yossi-kreinin

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[+4] [2009-08-20 10:35:19] Dimitri C.

Bruce Schneier [1] Has an excellent blog on IT security.

[1] http://www.schneier.com/blog/

I was unimpressed with his early work, but nowadays he's putting out excellent information! - Brian Knoblauch
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[+4] [2008-09-17 13:35:48] Andrew Jahn

Ted Dziuba [1]'s blog is a very cynical blog about coding and always makes me laugh. He also rants a lot.

[1] http://teddziuba.com/

+1. Very funny and very insightful. But not for you if you're prone to taking things a bit too seriously and literally. - David HAust
There is a Stack Overflow user with the same name: Ted Dziuba, stackoverflow.com/users/104/ted-dziuba - Peter Mortensen
thank you for mentioning this, new for me, very nice reading - Kugel
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[+3] [2009-12-07 17:26:45] monksy

MSDN Documentation [1]

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-en/default.aspx

(1) is this a blog? - jeshan
They have the MSDN blogs on there. - monksy
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[+3] [2008-09-17 01:43:10] Alvaro Rodriguez

The Berkun Blog [1]

[1] http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/

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[+3] [2008-09-17 01:39:12] user14563

Just one? Hmm... CSS Tricks [1], for the web devs.

[1] http://css-tricks.com/

Just one per post. If you've got more good ones, post them up, too! - Christopher Cashell
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[+3] [2008-09-17 04:03:24] Gopherkhan

I second Artima [1]. I can't vote up yet :)

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

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[+2] [2008-09-17 04:31:53] Bleadof

Google Testing Blog [1] is quite good.

[1] http://googletesting.blogspot.com/

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[+2] [2008-09-19 19:37:31] Phil Bennett

The object mentor developers [1] web blog. Robert C. Martin & co.

[1] http://blogs.objectmentor.com

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[+2] [2008-09-17 01:36:15] Mitchel Sellers

Mitchel Sellers DNN Blog [1]

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

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[+2] [2008-09-17 01:37:24] Lucas Oman

Here's a few from my list:
- Coding Horror [1]
- Hackety [2]
- John Resig [3]
- Just Browsing [4]
- Kickin' the Darkness [5]
- Schneier [6]
- The Old New Thing [7]

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
[2] http://hackety.org/
[3] http://ejohn.org/
[4] http://browsing.justdiscourse.com/
[5] http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/
[6] http://www.schneier.com/blog/
[7] http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/default.aspx

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[+2] [2008-09-17 03:59:01] James Wulkan

Moserware [1] - I think I started reading this when it was linked from Coding Horror once. Relatively new blogger but his posts are interesting and well thought out.

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

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[+2] [2008-09-17 04:01:54] amadamala

Some of the tech blogs I usually follow are

Peter Norvig's [1] --> You can see some great code
Joel's [2]
Steve Yegge's [3] --> programmers love this blog

[1] http://norvig.com
[2] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
[3] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/

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[+2] [2009-12-07 17:26:48] Scott Ivey

Stack Overflow - just browsing through the latest questions always opens up new ideas for me.


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[+2] [2009-12-07 17:27:28] Sam Meldrum

Hanselminutes [1] podcast

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

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[+2] [2009-12-07 17:25:01] Guy Starbuck

.NET Rocks [1] podcast

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

Wish I could vote this one up more than once. - Cylon Cat
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[+1] [2009-06-23 17:42:46] Paul Dixon

John Resig's blog [1] (JavaScript Evangelist and creator of jQuery)

[1] http://ejohn.org/

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[+1] [2009-09-13 01:26:17] Jahanzeb Farooq

Scott Rosenberg'a blog [1]. I recently read it and found some good posts. Scott Rosenberg is the author of Dreaming in Code [2].

[1] http://www.wordyard.com/
[2] http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1400082471

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[+1] [2009-03-03 05:04:58] zodeus

Good look at general software best practices. Object Mentor [1]

[1] http://blog.objectmentor.com/

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[+1] [2009-12-07 17:26:31] mkurek

Dot Net Perls. [1]

[1] http://dotnetperls.com/

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[+1] [2009-12-07 18:21:41] Josh Stodola

ScottGu [1] and Rick Strahl [2] are my favorite .NET blogs. Tons of useful content.

[1] http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu
[2] http://west-wind.com/weblog

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[+1] [2009-12-25 04:48:46] Mayur

Programming Languages Comparison blog...

Tutkiun [1]

[1] http://programminglanguagefaqs.blogspot.com/

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[+1] [2008-09-17 03:33:24] Aaron Lee

If your curious about ruby or metaprograming I would suggest http://errtheblog.com/ and http://eigenclass.org/


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[+1] [2008-09-17 02:37:48] DGentry

Charles Nutter [1], about JRuby internals.

[1] http://blog.headius.com/

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[+1] [2008-09-17 02:33:04] DGentry

Landon Dyer, the Dadhacker [1] covers mostly low level topics close to the hardware.

[1] http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/

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[+1] [2008-09-17 01:54:01] ben
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[+1] [2008-09-17 01:55:03] ben
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[+1] [2008-09-18 16:20:12] Vivek Kodira

Cathy Sierra's ' Creating Passionate Users [1]' was/is my favourite.

[1] http://headrush.typepad.com/

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[+1] [2008-09-20 20:27:44] Mads Hansen

Ajaxian.com [1]

[1] http://ajaxian.com/

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[+1] [2008-10-04 06:08:19] community_owned

Software Engineering Radio [1]

[1] http://www.se-radio.net/

this is probably one of the only useful bits of programming podcasts on the internets... Perhaps I have just not found the next useful one though. - Tim
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[+1] [2009-01-08 19:26:15] community_owned

The Contrarian Software Blog [1]

"Because so much conventional wisdom in the software industry is just plain wrong."

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

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[+1] [2008-09-17 04:37:02] Glennular

Joel on Software [1] : Joel Spolsky

Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen.com [2]

ScottGu's Blog [3]: Scott Guthrie

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
[2] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/
[3] http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/default.aspx

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[+1] [2008-09-17 03:53:31] paxdiablo

I use The Daily WTF [1], Coding Horror [2], The Old New Thing [3], Juixe Techknow [4], Joel on Software [5], dilbert and Slashdot [6].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FDaily%5FWTF
[2] http://www.codinghorror.com/
[3] http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/
[4] http://juixe.com/techknow/
[5] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot

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[+1] [2008-09-17 07:28:15] remonedo

Peter-Paul Koch's blog on quirksmode.org [1]

[1] http://quirksmode.org

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[+1] [2008-09-17 08:24:40] Chris Canal

Los Techies [1]

[1] http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/

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[+1] [2008-09-17 09:30:32] Victor

I also read Raganwald [1]. It looks like he doesn't write any more, but you can read the archives and I like the links, too.

[1] http://weblog.raganwald.com

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[0] [2008-09-17 11:27:33] Scott and the Dev Team

Myke's Weblog [1]

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

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[0] [2008-09-18 14:35:41] Pau

Ian Bicking's [1]

[1] http://blog.ianbicking.org/

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[0] [2008-09-17 08:25:45] Chris Canal

devlicio.us [1]

[1] http://devlicio.us/blogs/

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[0] [2008-09-17 09:18:58] modius

Fullasagoog

The Fullasagoog aggregator brings together over 500 hand picked blogs, focused on the Adobe technology platform and related topics. If you are interested in Flash, Flex, AIR or ColdFusion this is a fabulous place to start.

http://www.fullasagoog.com/


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[0] [2008-09-17 07:32:40] Henrik Warne

Jurgen Appelo [1] has compiled a great list of blogs: Top 100 Blogs for Development Managers (Q3 2008) [2].

It is supposedly for software development managers, but in my opionion they are just as much for developers that are not managers (such as myself). All of my favourite bloggers (for example Jeff Atwood, Joel Spolsky, Steve Yegge, Martin Fowler, Reginald Braithwaite) are on the list.

[1] http://www.noop.nl
[2] http://www.noop.nl/2008/09/top-100-blogs-for-development-managers-q3-2008.html

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[0] [2008-09-17 06:48:03] cvs

Scott Guthrie

Stephen Walther

www.codebetter.com


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[0] [2009-01-08 19:31:45] Laserallan

I like the realtime collision detection blog [1].

Despite its name it covers way more than collision detection and has a lot of interesting and sometimes provocative ideas on programming in general.

[1] http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog/

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[0] [2009-01-19 09:07:16] Comptrol

DevelopDotStar [1]: The Independent Magazine for Software Developers.

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

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[0] [2009-02-16 23:03:35] Jonik

I'm rather surprised that no one has mentioned

New Adventures in Software [1] by Dan Dyer (who also happens to be a Stack Overflow user [2])

I don't follow that many blogs, but this one has caught my attention because of the many delightfully well written posts, like this introduction to evolutionary computation [3] - surprisingly interesting, for me, for such a theoretical subject. I (and my team) also owe it to this blog that I found out about Hudson [4] a while back; it has later replaced CruiseControl in our use due to its superior ease of configuration.

Personally I consider it a plus that most of the blog's concrete coding related posts are Java specific (along with some Haskell stuff). Even if you disagree with that, you may be interested in the insightful articles on software development in general, such as this one about the importance of sleep [5], or witty social commentary about online phenomena like the ongoing Twitter experiment [6].

[1] http://blog.uncommons.org/
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/users/5171/dan-dyer
[3] http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/01/20/practical-evolutionary-computation-an-introduction/
[4] http://blog.uncommons.org/2008/05/09/why-are-you-still-not-using-hudson/
[5] http://blog.uncommons.org/2008/05/05/eat-sleep-and-drink-software-development-the-zone/
[6] http://blog.uncommons.org/2009/02/11/finding-the-dolphin-the-great-twitter-experiment-day-0/

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[0] [2009-02-25 21:36:34] Jonik

If you happen to know some Spanish language (and perhaps enjoy learning more of it) and are into web development, and Linux / open source stuff, check out the blog maintained by

Gregorio Espadas [1] (a Mexican web developer)
Subheading: Desarrollo y Diseño Web : Software Libre : Linux : Web 2.0

Aside from web development and design content, notable (mainly open-source) software releases and sometimes major hardware or tech business news are covered. This is high-quality stuff; I may not know a comparable general tech blog (for my tastes, anyway) in any language.

[1] http://gespadas.com/blog/

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[0] [2008-10-25 04:26:04] DGentry

I'll add my own: Coding Relic [1]. Feel free to vote it down, I'm used to it.

[1] http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/

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[0] [2008-11-03 13:29:55] yapiskan

Eric Lippert's Fabulous Adventures In Coding [1] and Wesdyer's Yet Another Language Geek [2].

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/
[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/wesdyer/

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[0] [2008-12-31 17:30:50] Tim

Here's a horrible one.

http://www.stackoverthrow.com/ some rants about development and things.

Disclaimer: I'm the author. Feel free to downvote for shameless plug.


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[0] [2009-01-08 19:24:36] community_owned

BTW, what happened to Mr. Ed's hacknot.info? It just shows a generic site since months.


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[0] [2008-10-01 17:50:59] community_owned

I rather enjoy:

  • Joel's (obviously)
  • 'coding horror'

and I've gotten some helpful code from Software Evolved [1].

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

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[0] [2008-09-19 00:51:42] epochwolf

Ryan's Scraps [1]

Keeps me up to date on the bleeding edge of Ruby on Rails.

[1] http://ryandaigle.com/

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[0] [2008-09-20 00:38:41] Hamish Smith

I didn't see Ode To Code [1] in this list yet.

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

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[0] [2008-09-20 00:42:55] Hamish Smith

Even though I don't write any Ruby, I am really missing raganwald [1] because of the thought provoking posts, the fact that I ended up learning things that would never have come up just reading .NET blogs, and because the links he posted were always worth a read.

Thankfully it looks like he's thinking about starting up a new blog [2].

[1] http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/05/narcissism-of-small-code-differences.html
[2] http://homoiconic.com/

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[0] [2008-09-20 00:44:33] benPearce

Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day [1]

[1] http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/

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[0] [2008-09-17 02:37:31] Christopher Dolan

Peter Kankowski - who writes smallcode [1], never ceases to teach me new things.

[1] http://smallcode.weblogs.us/

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[0] [2008-09-17 03:38:49] MrBoJangles

For testing subjects, I've enjoyed James Bach's Blog [1] although he must have died because he hasn't posted any new entries in a while.

I also like a guy named Shrini Kulikarni [2]. And from either of those blogs, their blogrolls will take you to a number of other good sites.

[1] http://www.satisfice.com/blog/
[2] http://shrinik.blogspot.com/

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[0] [2008-09-17 03:48:08] community_owned

I usually stop by http://www.phpied.com/ its a mix of PHP and Javascript stuffs.


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[0] [2008-09-17 03:49:11] hongster

The Artima Developer Community [1]

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

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[0] [2008-09-17 03:02:42] klasbas

Less known I think:

[1] http://www.mojavelinux.com/
[2] http://littletutorials.com/

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[0] [2010-03-16 09:02:57] Bhaskar

For .NET:

  1. Eric Lippert Blog [1]
  2. Jon Skeet Blog [2]
[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2009/06/11/what-does-the-optimize-switch-do.aspx
[2] http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/default.aspx

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[0] [2009-12-10 03:11:49] magical liopleurodon

For all you Erlang'ers out there (it's what the cool kids are doing.)

blog.beerriot.com -- Bryan Fink (one of the guys behind Riak.)

yariv's blog is also a good one.


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[0] [2009-03-26 12:52:31] Josh

The Fast Dilbert Strip [1]

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

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[0] [2009-06-16 10:04:15] DBMarcos99

This guy seems to know his Perl stuff, yet makes his blog entries interesting and readable to non-geeks:

http://dave.org.uk/


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[0] [2009-06-16 10:10:04] DBMarcos99

Jorge Dunkelman's blog [1] may be of interest to Spanish speakers, especially those needing help with Excel.

[1] http://jldexcelsp.blogspot.com/

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[0] [2009-06-16 10:15:07] DBMarcos99

Lastly, here's a useful source on MySQL admin and performance stuff (lots more blogs via Planet MySQL [1].)

MySQL Performance Blog [2]

I hope these links are of use to someone out there!

[1] http://www.planetmysql.org/
[2] http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/

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[0] [2009-10-28 15:58:57] Sean McMillan

Perhaps it's not a "blog", but it never hurts to watch the original (c2) wiki [1]. The link is to the quick changes screen so you can see all the recent edits.

[1] http://www.c2.com/cgi/quickChanges

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[0] [2009-10-28 16:02:45] Sean McMillan

If you code in Perl, following the "journals" at use.perl.org [1] is nice. The front page is OK, but I find it much more useful to follow the personal journal pages of the developers whose modules I use.

[1] http://use.perl.org/

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[0] [2009-10-28 16:03:36] Psilokan

Shameless plug: FettesPS [1]

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

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[0] [2009-06-23 19:36:25] Nick

If broken it is, fix it you should [1] - Tess Ferrandez, ASP.NET debugging, performance, etc.

Faculty of the mind [2] - Fredrik Kalseth, Test Driven Development, Best Practices, etc.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/
[2] http://iridescence.no/

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[0] [2009-08-08 10:12:17] Ola Eldøy

Kent Beck's blog [1] (Programming guru extraordinaire - among other things, creator of Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development)

[1] http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/

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[0] [2009-12-07 17:26:05] monksy

ASP.NET: 4GuysFromRolla [1].

[1] http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/

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[0] [2009-12-07 17:28:00] monksy

Occasionally you can find gold bits in the MSDN Blogs [1]

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/

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[0] [2009-12-07 17:28:09] Matt Brunell

DotNetKicks.com [1]

DotNetShoutout [2]

Two community news/vote sites.

[1] http://dotnetkicks.com/default.aspx
[2] http://dotnetshoutout.com/

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[0] [2009-12-07 17:31:10] PhilPursglove

The Morning Dew [1] (although as I'm in the UK it tends to be the Lunchtime Dew for me!)

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

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[0] [2009-12-07 17:34:15] Chris Nicol

DNRTV.com ... .NET Rocks vcast


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[-1] [2010-03-16 08:58:25] ydobonmai

www.hanselman.com [1]

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

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