We all have had the experience... Somebody opened our eyes at some point with a very good blog post about our work as developers. And from that day with strive to do a better job. What was the most influential development blog post for you? And how did it effect you in realizing or doing something different from that moment on? ...
Preface: I'm not interested in starting a language war, just want a little feedback on which route I should take. I have wanted to write a blog engine that I can constantly tweak and adjust for many years now. Something that can do all the major functions needed and once the framework is set up be able to add some of the nicer finer f...
I took a look on Wordpress and Blogger, and both have terrible support to source code posting. The best one on that aspect is Wordpress, which have a 'code' tag that apparently only changes the font, eliminating any indentations in the code. I was wondering if there is another blog hosting service with better support to code posting. ...
I'm going to be creating a site that's an aggregation of personal activities like Delicious, twitter, last.fm, etc. along with a blog. I'd like to try a CMS to manage/develop this site, but there's several very strong competitors: Joomla, Drupal, Xoops, Wordpress, etc. Language is not an issue, as a Java dev I'll be learning as I go reg...
I run a site using the MODx Content Management System. What I'd like to do is set up a news feed on the front page, with a blog-style backend that supports the usual things (tags, categories, archives basically). I've looked into the MODx plugins which provide this functionality (the deprecated NewsPublisher - which we use currently - a...
I'm thinking about using BlogEngine.NET to launch my blog. I'm a C# programmer and was wondering was BlogEngine.NET has in the belly. Does it scale well? Is it caching properly? Is it memory intensive? Can you easily add/remove functionality? I also accept any hosting recommendation :) ...
What are the best Cocoa/Mac OS X programming blogs? One blog per answer please. blog should be active (i.e. updated regularly and recently) blog should have code-centric posts (although not all) ...
What are the best Cocoa-Touch/iPhone programming blogs? One blog per answer please. Some answers may overlap with Best Cocoa/Mac OS X programming blogs? , but I'm looking for blogs with good meaty iPhone specific content (i.e. code) ...
I'm building an extra layer on top of Movable Type for integration with another system. Part of this involves pre-processing and filtering requests before they get to the MT scripts (comment control, translating external users into MT users etc). For example, new comments to posts are submitted to a script in the new layer before reques...
I really don't want to rile anyone's feathers and I really enjoy blogs like Joel, Coding Horror, Scott Hanselman, etc. However, what are some good blogs/podcasts that focus on other platforms besides Microsoft based ones or maybe even no particular platform at? In particular I am interested in areas like Python, Ruby, Java, C, but any ...
My co-founder is currently asking on our blog for an embeddable code widget. http://devver.net/blog/2008/10/someone-please-build-an-awesome-embeddable-code-widget/ Basically we want something like http://pastie.org/ or http://codepad.org/ but we really want to embed the code section in our blog. We know there are plugins for common blo...
Sometimes I come across this sentence "the best best practice is success" in several blog posts or podcast. Last I've heard this on some podcast; subject was Design related/architectural/security decisions. I don't believe this but it sounds right. And it may cause misunderstanding. What do you think about this? ...
As a developer who is always looking for new resources and information, I loved Mike Gunderloy's blog "The Daily Grind" on www.larkware.com ("We get up early, so you don't have to.") Unfortunately (for me) Mike decided to discontinue the blog in December 2007. So, my question: is there a similar blog / site which provides such good link...
How should I license the code snippets used in my blog posts so that people feel free to use it without painful restrictions? My (very limited) understanding of copyright tells me that without any defined license that everything is protected as copyrighted which would have severe limitations on other's use. There's a good discussion ab...
I have a programming blog that was implemented using the default theme of Movable Type. To that, I have added myself a syntax highlighting plugin for adding code snippets. It's not the best thing in the world, but it served its purpose for a long time. Problem is my administrative interface's editor is no longer working so I think it's ...
Hi All, I know there has been previous talk on here about screencasting tools/apps, however I thought I would be more specific in what I am after in the hope that it can help me and others :) I am looking at trialling some screencasts on my blog. There are numerous reasons for this (hopefully being more helpful to readers, improving my...
I've been tasked with a simple request at work: I want to give our new developers a SMART goal to follow a blog for the duration of this review period. Give me three good ones to let them choose from. Three Good Ones?! I follow a ton it seems and whittling my list down to a top three is proving tough. I'm having a hard time pickin...
I can't seem to find a true restful Blog API - are there any? I'm writing some blog software and wondered if there was a standard restful API, if not I'll go buy the RESTful Web Services book and design my own. ...
What are the most useful websites to learn ASP.NET with? What blogs do you read it to enhance your technical knowledge of ASP.NET? What forums are useful to you? First I will answered this Question. [Website] ASP.NET [Website] 4GuysFromRolla [BLOG] ScottGu Blog [BLOG] Omar Alzaber Blog I have a lot of links but maybe you have...
I'm looking for a syntax highlighter cum code formatter for my blog on BlogSpot. I've tried several today, but the all want to include tags, or reference a stylesheet. I'm looking for one that is ideal for segments of code, and includes styling inline. Any suggestions? ...