which are the must-visit-daily websites for programmers?

Question

other than stackoverflow.

Answer 1

The Daily WTF! (And this one, of course)

Answer 2

userfriendly.org

:)

Answer 3

There are other websites :S...lol. I like to visit Scott Hanselman blog every day.

Answer 4

For the java side:

• TSS (The Server Side)
• PlanetEclipse
• PlanetJDK

Answer 5

Well needless to say this is a very subjective matter. It squarely depends on your area(s) of interest. As for me I visit codeproject.com on a regular basis since I am most interested in Microsoft technologies.

Answer 6

google.com

Answer 7

Specifically for me the following in the order

• www.codeproject.com
• http://msdn.microsoft.com

The reason I visit these site is there are many interesting programming projects/articles on c#, asp.net, WPF, Silverlight, database and everything related to MS.

Besides there is also non work related content. Quite interesting read.

This is mostly related to Microsoft though Codeproject has started sections for php and LAMP users.

P.S : Don't flame me for highlighting MS as I work almost 100% on their technologies. These may be useful for someone.

Answer 8

Charlie Calvert (A LINQ and general C# guru from MS) http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/default.aspx

Coding4Fun http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/default.aspx

Fabulous Adventures In Coding (Insite into the future of C#) http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/default.aspx

Joel on Software http://www.joelonsoftware.com

Mike Taulty (An awesome Brit from MS who does amazing screencasts and exhaustive posts on new language features) http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/default.aspx

Sara Ford (Learn something new about your IDE) http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/default.aspx

Scott Hanselman (Perhaps the most relevant C# evangelist and a great speaker, teacher and blogger) http://www.hanselman.com/blog/

ScottGu (A must read.) http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/default.aspx

BCL Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/default.aspx

Eric Eilebrecht http://blogs.msdn.com/ericeil/default.aspx

Daniel Cazzulino (This guy is in a league of his own, always something clever that makes me feel stupid) http://www.clariusconsulting.net/blogs/kzu/default.aspx

Answer 9

Programming Reddit !

Answer 10

I used to really like The Daily Grind, but that's history now and I miss it.

I generally like to keep in touch with Codinghorror, Scott Hanselman's and Scott Guthrie's blog whenever I can now.

Answer 11

In addition to the ones listed above

theserverside.net [.Net developers]

http://www.codinghorror.com/ [General reading]

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/ [if your interest is in SQL server databases]

http://www.databasejournal.com/ [if your interest is generally databases]

on some you find new stuff every day; some you dont.

Answer 12

http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/

Like: http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=which+are+the+must+visit+daily+websites+for+programmers

(Especially for answering questions that can be found on google in 5 secs.)

Answer 13

I find these interesting:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing
• http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog/

Answer 14

Basic Web Programming site: w3schools

PHP Programming

sourceforge.com

Answer 15

http://www.dzone.com

Answer 16

Besides Reddit and Slashdot, I've found that Hacker News offers a lot of nice programming links.

Answer 17

Don't visit sites daily, subscribe to their RSS feeds using (insert your feed reader of choice here - I use Google Reader )

If a site doesn't have an RSS (or Atom) feed, ignore it. If the content's any good you'll see it linked from a site that does.

That done, add a few of these (some already mentioned - I've given the feed links) :

• http://syndicated.livejournal.com/xkcd_rss/profile
• http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/index.xml
• http://damienkatz.net/atom.xml
• http://danbricklin.com/log_rss.xml
• http://martinfowler.com/bliki/bliki.atom
• http://nunit.com/blogs/?feed=rss2
• http://blog.getpaint.net/feed/
• http://blogs.msdn.com/rickbrew/rss.xml
• http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScottHanselman
• http://grumpyop.wordpress.com/feed/ (shameless self-promotion)
• http://www.userfriendly.org/rss/uf.rss

Answer 18

A list apart for info on web standards and other good front end practices

Answer 19

Not a daily read, but worth keeping tabs on:

The Risks-List Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems

Answer 20

• Webworker Daily

• delicious

• Geek and Poke

• Life Remix

Answer 21

I've been reading Slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org) for a number of years (perhaps too many). Also of note: xkcd, of course. http://www.xkcd.com

Answer 22

Have a look at Catch22.net

Excellent resource for WIN32 programming. I know this may seem odd in the world of .NET, but there are really gems of articles.

In fact look at Neatpad article series. Really cool. I hope to see more on this site.

Answer 23

From my RSS reader (use an RSS reader... you'll thank yourself later). They're nearly all blogs. I'm too lazy to get URLs, but a quick google search ought to get you the appropriate feeds:

• A list apart
• Coding Horror
• High Scalability
• Joel on Software
• The Daily WTF
• XKCD
• KernelTrap
• Daily Vim
• Subversion Mailing lists (developer and user)
• Duff's Device

Answer 24

www.dilbert.com

:)

Answer 25

For those programmers leading a team of programmers:

www.manager-tools.com

Generally, if I am interested in some specific topic or details about some technology, or for that matter anything, I set up Google Alerts for it:

www.google.com/alerts

That is an excellent way to get a diverse digest of what currently interests you.

Answer 26

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com
Very insightful and always funny.

Answer 27

Here are some java-related feeds..

• The Server Side - http://feeds.feedburner.com/techtarget/tsscom/home
• The Java Posse - http://feeds.feedburner.com/javaposse
• Java Dot Net - http://weblogs.java.net/pub/q/weblogs_rss?x-ver=1.0
• Spring Framework - http://springframework.org/node/feed
• Cafe au Lait - http://www.cafeaulait.org/today.rss
• Sun Java - http://developers.sun.com/rss/java.xml
• DevX - http://services.devx.com/outgoing/javafeed.xml
• OnJava - http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/feed/7?format=rss1
• No Fluff Just Stuff Podcasts - http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/s/podcast/itunes.xml
• Spring Loaded - http://www.jroller.com/habuma/feed/entries/rss
• Agile Developer / Java - http://www.agiledeveloper.com/blog/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRssCategory?categoryName=Java
• Agile Developer / Groovy - http://www.agiledeveloper.com/blog/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRssCategory?categoryName=Groovy

Answer 28

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/ lolcats of course!

Answer 29

Almost all my daily reading you all have wrote before, but there is one more for MySQL users: MySQL Performance Blog

Answer 30

http://www.google.com/

Other than that, you can use RSS readers, but none of the feeds I read require daily checking (and I read a lot of feeds, largely covered by posts here).

Answer 31

https://slashdot.org/ [Be a subscriber, and you get to use https!]

http://www.oreilly.com/

http://use.perl.org/

Answer 32

Highlights from my RSS Reader:

• Coding Horror http://feeds.feedburner.com/codinghorror

• Stevey's Blog Rants http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

• Ned Batchelder's blog http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/rss.xml

• CIO - Blogs and Discussion - Developer Wisdom http://feeds.cio.com/cioao/taxonomy/362 (This may seem off topic, but I like the broader perspective, for example this post about what to do if a former employer calls about a bug... )

But I just found stackoverflow and it's definitely my new favorite :)

Answer 33

www.codinghorror.com

www.stackoverflow.com

www.theserverside.com

Answer 34

The ones already mentioned (Scott G and Scott H, Coding Horror) and the following

http://www.themorningbrew.net (A must visit)

http://www.smashingmagazine.com