Well-respected developer blogs written by non-famous people

Question

Many of us probably follow the developer blogs of well-known names - Joel Spolsky, Jeff Atwood, etc.

Many of us probably also follow the technical blogs of people we've come to know through our careers or our interactions. These could be blogs of exceedingly high quality that are just not as well known.

What developer blogs do you rely on, written by low-visibility experts, that the rest of us might not be aware of?

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Answer 1

Jon Skeet!!

http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/Default.aspx

Answer 2

Most of the blogs by "non-famous people" that I am subsribed to are only updated sporadically. I guess that's one of the reason's Jeff's blog is so popular, he has maintained a very regular posting schedule over a number of years.

I get a lot of my articles from DZone. If an article is good, it will generally rise to the top, regardless of who wrote it.

Following on from Jeffrey's answer, how about going through the users page of StackOverflow and picking out the blogs of the top users here? They've all already proved their technical communication skills, at least to some extent.

EDIT: Top 10 blogs linked from SO user pages:

• Jon Skeet
• Greg Hewgill
• Marc Gravell
• Bill The Lizard
• S. Lott
• Joel Coehoorn
• Vinko Vrsalovic
• litb
• Michael Stum
• Paul Tomblin

These are not all top 10 users but they are the 10 highest ranked users with a link to an active programming-related blog on their profiles.

Answer 3

Jon Galloway

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/

Answer 4

Raymond Chen

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/

Answer 5

• Ben Scheirman
• Chris Burrows
• Chris Smith
• Randy Patterson
• Colin Jack
• David Hill
• David Morton
• Eric White
• Erwin van der Valk
• Eric Lippert
• Fredrik Kalseth
• Jim Hugunin
• Jimmy Shementi
• Josh Smith
• Julian Dominguez
• Karl Shifflett
• Kirill Osenkov
• Krzysztof Cwalina
• Oleg Sych
• Sam Ng’s Blog
• John Gossman
• Tomas Petrocek

Answer 6

My favourite lately has definitely been Steve Yegge (http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/blog-rants and http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/). Paul Graham (http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html) has a good series of articles as well.

Answer 7

Windows and internationalisation: Michael Kaplan

Answer 8

Scott Hanselman is on here somewhere:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/

Answer 9

If you do WPF development, Josh Smith's blog has been invaluable.

Answer 10

Alex Miller's Pure Danger Tech

He covers Java concurrency and is a co-author of The Definitive Guide to Terracotta.

Answer 11

Jeremy Zawodny MySQL Guru http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/

Jamie Zawinski Coder for Netscape Navigator http://jwz.livejournal.com/

Both of them always have very interesting insights.

Answer 12

Pete Shearer

Answer 13

Can't believe noone has mentioned Joel Spolsky! Many of his posts are hilarious.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/

For instance this one:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000057.html