Today I was looking through my RSS reader of choice, Google Reader, and looking at the software development articles that I have starred. It occurred to me that you might benefit from knowing whose feed I am following. Here are my top five:
- Uncle Bob’s Blatherings
This is a category on the Object Mentor Blog dedicated to Robert Martin’s writing. It is one of my favorite for both practical coding advice as well as thoughts on methodologies and mentoring programmers.
- PragDave
Dave Thomas’s Pragmatic Programmer Blog is full of small tidbits of useful insight on coding and also some pointers to the books his company puts out.
- Martin Fowler’s Bliki
As Martin describes it, this is A cross between a blog and wiki of his partly-formed ideas on software development. This is chock full of industry news and his thoughts on different methodologies
- Google Code Blog
If you do any kind of web development, this Google blog is full of information on free APIs and techniques which will improve your skillset.
- Joel On Software
This is Joel Spolsky’s site where he promotes his consultancy and views on running a software consultancy. I threw this one out there as a site to consider reading even if you don’t necessarily agree with his approach. Sometimes being able to rationally debate an idea about software craftsmanship is extremely valuable.
Whose feed are you reading?
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