What are some good web development blogs?

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What are some good web development blogs?

I'm just getting into some basic web development (just a personal homepage for now, but I have plans for bigger things once I know the basics). I find that blogs can be quite helpful in getting into the mindset of a particular activity, so I was wondering if anyone knew some good ones. I'm particularly looking for education blogs i.e. ones that actually explain how to do things instead of just making commentary on them.

If the blog is specific to LAMP, or any one (or more) of those things (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) then that's a bonus.

Thanks in advance.

you may want to start with the tutorials at w3c schoools http://www.w3schools.com/

Steve Robillard 2010-03-24 22:01:42

Thanks. I'm aware of those tutorials, but I'm looking more for something that's going to keep me up to date with the latest techniques, and to just generally learn how to think like a web developer. Tutorials tell you how to do things, but they generally don't tell you what's common practice, what's frowned upon, and what the latest security exploit is.

Peter Alexander 2010-03-24 22:05:50

I think quite contrary. Blogs are good for entertainment, not for the education. Books are much better. And books from the PHP stuff is even better. PHP 5 Unleashed by John Coggeshall is among them.

Col. Shrapnel 2010-03-24 22:06:11

Agree. Poita_ you should consult books first to have a basic understanding of LAMP. For a head first start, try using XAMPP on windows, this will bring you to the world of XAMP(X could be W for Windows, L for Linux and A for Apple?)

Michael Mao 2010-03-24 22:09:16

Well, we can agree to disagree -- I have learned much from several blogs (Herb Sutter's blog on C++ is often very educational, for example). Thanks for the book reference though. I do like books, but the problem with computer books is that they quickly become outdated (especially with web dev.), and you can't ask the author a question, or (easily) read people's comments (if the author happens to get something wrong).

Peter Alexander 2010-03-24 22:14:02

@Michael -- Using Windows would defeat the purpose of the exercise; out of the LAMP stack, Linux is one of my weakest areas.

Peter Alexander 2010-03-24 22:17:58

@Poita_ : Well, to me XAMPP is easy to get started for most of LAMP learners. If you have a Linux distro such as Ubuntu, then I would still recommend you to go XAMPP site and download its Linux version. XAMPP is the Integrated Environment for Apache, MySQL and PHP, and much more. So you don't have to install everything manually by hand.

Michael Mao 2010-03-24 22:42:44

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I would recommend the Blogs by the creators of StackOverflow:

I can recommend to take a look in their archive for good posts.

I can also recommmend Read Write Web

Jonas 2010-03-24 22:06:57

Thanks. I already follow Jeff and Joel, but Read Write Web looks good.

Peter Alexander 2010-03-24 22:08:51

+1 A:

As this question is tagged php, I'm guessing you're searching for blogs that are related to PHP.

If so, http://www.planet-php.net/ is great : it aggregates a lot of PHP related blogs.

Pascal MARTIN 2010-03-24 22:22:16

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