I need some help!

December 7th, 2009

I need some help on some suggestions that I want to make in small chapter of my book “The Software Craftsman”. I have some strong believes already and I am wondering if people are agreeing with me or if I am completely of base. To keep the answers as open as possible I am not telling you my suggestions (yes I hope for people to actually comment on this one). Also it doesn't need to be in the .Net space as design principles and coding practices are pretty universal.

So here are the two questions (and honestly I’ll try to make my next blog post technical again) ;)

Blogs

What blogger or site do you value the most in your RSS feed and why?

Podcasts

What podcast do you value the most and why?

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  • Marcus Eklund

    I would say

    Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew [ http://www.alvinashcraft.com/ ]
    Mostly because it gives me a good overview of a lot of posts that is good.

    I subscribe on a lot of others, including ElegantCode RSS also.

    When it comes to Podcasts
    Hanselminutes from Scott Hanselman [ http://www.hanselminutes.com/ ]
    Since it is both informative and fun.
    But as with RSS feeds, i subscribe on several podcasts.

    /Marcus

  • Patrick

    Oren Eini (ayende) or Jimmy Bogard (los techies) because they I always learn something.

    Stackoverflow podcast because Joel brings entertainment and knowledge about the software industry from a non-technical perspective.

  • http://craigcav.wordpress.com CraigCav

    A while back I wrote a bit about the bloggers I enjoy reading most and why, on my blog:

    http://craigcav.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/ive-learnt-so-much-from/

    In regards to Podcasts, I often listen to Hanselminutes, mainly as Scott has a light-hearted and approachable manner to his topics, and yet still remains informative. I’ve also been known to listen to the elegant code cast and herding code from time to time.

  • Curtis

    I listen to several blogs and podcasts.

    Blogs:

    http://ayende.com/Blog/
    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
    http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/

    I enjoy the blogs that I read because they give very practical information that I can use. Often blogs talk about new technology that is interesting, but not always useful because clients like to stay with proven technology.

    I am interested in learning how to be a better programmer and I like information that will help me do that.

    Podcasts

    .NET Rocks
    Hanselminutes
    Polymorphic Podcasts.com

    I like .NET Rocks and Hanselminutes for their mix of entertaining style, interesting topics and knowledgeable guests. Polymorphic is a new podcast that I have begun listening to that is about the design aspect of programming, which is very informative.

  • http://simpleprogrammer.com John Sonmez

    I have to tell you http://codinghorror.com used to be my favorite blog by far, but I think Jeff really has taken a turn towards the Joel side of the force. Its unfortunate, because he used to have such good content.

    I started checking the ElegantCode RSS and I am really liking the content here. Maybe I am partial, because I am in Boise Idaho also. :P

    Reflective perspective I read every morning to find what to read http://blog.cwa.me.uk/

    Not really .NET but excellent is Object Mentor blog. http://blog.objectmentor.com/
    Sometimes there is really good stuff here!

    I’m looking for good Podcasts, I want to start listening to while I work. So I am looking for suggestions there also.

    Hope that helps!

  • tijmenvdk

    My favorite blog currently: http://davybrion.com/blog/. Davy posts on many interesting TDD/WCF subjects and combines this with refreshing insights & ramblings.

    Other than that one I subscribe to roughly 80-100 dev blogs at any given time, rated in three levels between must-read, should-read and could-read. Ones I like are Rick Strahl (http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/),
    Gian Maria Ricci/Alkampfer (http://www.codewrecks.com/) and the usual suspects like codebetter, lostechies, devlicious, etc.

    Podcasts: elegant code cast, herding code and hanselminutes.

  • http://fr.linkedin.com/in/michaelpereira Chico

    I would recommend http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ along with the StackOverflow podcast : http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/ because they make you think about how you code and how you can improve the user experience.

  • David McKenzie

    Greg’s Cool Tools and Jason Haley’s daily “Interesting Links”. I tend to have seen a lot of Jason’s links already (I have 100 other feeds, many harvested from Jurgen Appelo’s periodic “top xxx” posts on his noop.nl blog), but the ones I haven’t are often gold, and lead me to new blogs to add.

    My favorite podcasts are Stack Overflow – because Joel and Jeff are just fun to listen to, and have attracted some great guests; .NET Rocks; and Hanselminutes.

  • Szymon Kulec

    Speaking about blogs: Ayende is the top blogger ;)
    My favorite podcast is “Digital Planet” from BBC Podcasts, which is the most generic technical podcast I can imagine, but still, valuable.

  • http://blogs.msdn.com/elee Eric Lee

    Podcast: I’ve been impressed with Software Engineering Radio. It’s not a .Net-centric podcast but they often have great guests on that show with some really deep insights into the software engineering process. Other podcasts are better for learning the “new technology of the week” but this is the one that’s made me say, “Wow, I never thought about it that way.”

    Blogs: the collective blogging sites are useful for maintaining a high signal-to-noise ratio. CodeBetter, Los Techies, and Elegant Code are good ones.

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