What are the best blogs for staying up to date on C#, ASP.NET, LINQ, SQL, C++, Ruby, Java, Python?

Question

Apologies if this repeats another - but I couldn't fine one like it.

My day to day programming spans a fair number of technologies: C#, ASP.NET, LINQ / SQL, C++, Ruby, Java, Python in approximately that order.

It's a struggle to keep up to date on any of best practices, new ideas, innovation and improvements, let alone all.

Therefore, what would your top 1 blog be in each of these technologies and which technology do you find easiest to stay up to date with? I'd have a bias towards blogs with broad and high level rather than narrow and detailed content / solutions / examples.

Answer 1

InfoQ covers most of those subjects, plus you can tailor it to only list the things you are interested in. I'd suggest the ADO.NET blog for Linq to SQL.

Answer 2

I have always rather enjoyed Eric Lippert's Blog Fabulous Adventures In Coding ( http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/default.aspx ). It's not great for staying up to date with the latest technologies but does deal with a lot of the intricacies of C# / .Net. A great site to hone your C# skills.

Answer 3

Scott Guthrie for ASP.NET, Silverlight and MVC.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/

Answer 4

Python: http://planet.python.org/

Ruby: http://www.rubyflow.com/

Both those links are aggregators, you can often pick up a few more useful blogs etc. from articles posted on those sites.

Answer 5

I like:

• 4 Guys From Rolla for ASP.NET stuff

• RailsCasts for Ruby on Rails (but I'm new to Rails so it is more tutorial stuff), and

• Coding Horror for process/big picture stuff.

• Of course, Stack Overflow itself is pretty valuable...