Interestig article

[joey.jeremiah]

and an interesting site

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LordPalmerston.html

 

[KnutHandsome]

It's an excellent site, one I visit most days - also check the forums, lots of intelligent programmers on there.

The one problem I have with it is that it has rather an elitist - "we're rock and roll programmers" approach.

If you are not a low-level hacker, you are considered somewhat wanting in the cool department, which is rather a shame for meat and potato db developers like me.

Still it's often good, provocative reading material - which I suppose is why its become one of the must-read blogs for those of us to whom this is more than 'just a job'.

 

[joey.jeremiah]

funny thing, i work maybe 5 minutes from the bakery place he talks about

 

[joey.jeremiah]

what other sites and blogs do you or any of you guys use ??


another site i've been following is "Brian Jones: Open XML Formats"

http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/default.aspx

i'm interested in the topic and its a great site

 

[KnutHandsome]

MSDN and its blogs are pretty exemplary, if a little slow to load and search (although there is now Google's Microsoft search http://www.google.com/microsoft.html).

Blogs and articles I tend to stumble upon (which reminds me, it's a while since I used stumbleupon).

I tend to flit every day from one site to another, as there are not many development related sites that stand out as particularly brilliant all the time. However, there are a few that I come back to quite regularly, mostly links pages eg.

http://del.icio.us/popular/
not strictly programming, but mostly populated by geeks, and there are always the development related tags you can search on

http://www.dzone.com/
for articles/blogs of interest to developers

http://www.mostinspired.com/
gives a snapshot on current trends in web design

http://www.devlisting.com/
various web links

http://www.shellcity.net/index.php
freeware and links for hackers

http://www.bugmenot.com/
to get access to (free) sites/articles that want me to register

http://thedailywtf.com/
of course.

Web 2 Bull**** Generator
to remind me to not get carried away with all the latest hype in the development world

this is quite brilliant, very original idea, poetry and code:
http://www.haikode.com/

I spend a lot of time on wikipedia, eg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern

And of course, the most important development resource of them all...
http://www.google.com

 

[KnutHandsome]

One thing that saddens me is just how lame most Progress-oriented sites are in comparison to even averagely interesting websites.

 

[moonchild666]

Thank you so much mate,
this is a very good site.

-moonchild

 

[KnutHandsome]

I'm halfway through reading Joel's 'Best Software Writing 1', and read this, a paean to the KISS approach, championing many of the technologies and approaches used by the hoi-polloi that an analysisParalysis type like me would normally sneer at.

It's beautifully written, and very convincing in a 'pragmatic for the people' kind of way.

http://adambosworth.net/2004/11/18/iscoc04-talk/