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Blogs to freshen up my math (in practice)

My question, his question, but blogs as resources to be specific. I find blogs great to keep up to date... refresh material... So do you know any blogs who tackle math-related programming problems... ...

Is it a good idea to code my own blog engine (beginner)?

I've been fooling around with PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, XHTML for about a year, and I still consider myself a beginner. Recently, I decided to start a project and work on it during my winter break from school to improve my skills in webdesign. A couple people recommended that I try and code my own blog. Can you guys think of other pr...

Blogging Tool Needed for Standards Compliant Webpages

A programmer I know has a website that is fully Standards Compliant. It uses Unicode-encoded fully-validated XHTML 1.1 with CSS. The pages are frames-free, table-free and JavaScript-free. He would like to be directed to a blogging tool that does not demand any particular database system or web server, but does create static pages that ...

One blog for each Django user with the "blog role"

Hi, What approach is the best way to make content-types restricted to a user in Django, lets say that i want all users with the user-role "blogger" to have its own blog. Ive createt a weblog app, but how do i restrict it so that the user logged inn can only post in his "own" blog, and how do I make views that shows only a users blog? ...

Which are the best SQL / SQL Server blogs?

Who is worth reading? Who is the Scott Gu of the SQL world? thanks ...

Which blog service has the best code syntax highlighting?

I'd like to start a 'cookbook' style blog where I post my coding solutions to common problems, mainly for my own use - what's the best blog service or engine to use in terms of posting code snippets (formatting, syntax highlighting etc)? If I have to write my own I will, but I'd rather just go with a pre-built solution if I can. ...

Who are the "Jeff Atwood" and "Joel Spolsky" outside the Microsoft universe?

Joel and Jeff have been a great source of enlightenment and learning for me. However, they are a bit Microsoft-centric. In order to widen my horizon... Are there less Microsoft-centric people out there who: Write about software development in an entertaining way Are interesting to read/listen to Have a friendly voice (metaphorically) ...

How to write a technical blog?

I have a blog that I would like to increase traffic on. I've read lots of technical blogs, but it's a lot different writing a blog versus reading a blog. There seems to be several ways to write a post. General article: I like this tool. This is how I do it. Specific technical issue: Programming solutions. I do get some traffic, but...

Is there an RDF ontology for blogs?

I'm setting up a blog, and I'm fascinated by RDF and the idea of the sematic web. I'd like to use RDFa to embed sematic data into my blog. There are several well know semantic web ontologies like FOAF for decribing people, ical for events, geo for places. Is there an ontology for blogs? Something to say "This site is a blog. Foo is a bl...

Learning Ruby: recommended blogs to read?

I'm about to start learning Ruby and would like a bit of reading material to help me into it. I'm looking for your top 5 blogs, news and any (active) bulletin boards (I can handle newsgroups fine, but I prefer reading in a BB) on Ruby. Thanks, ...

Best .NET blog engine

I am thinking about switching my blog away from Community Server to something that is simpler and focuses more on just being a good blog. What are the different .NET blogging engines and which one do you recommend? ...

Software Developers With Blogs...

How many of you programmers (I assume almost everyone here at Stackoverflow is) has a blog on your website in support of your software? How often do you write? What do you write about? Do you talk about competitor programs? Do you give away plans of new features that you are adding? Are you worried your competitors will read you blog an...

Top-Rated JavaScript Blogs

I am currently trying to find some blogs that talk (almost solely) on the JavaScript Language, and this is due to the fact that most of the time, bloggers with real life experience at work or at home development can explain more clearly and concisely certain quirks and hidden features than most 'Official Language Specifications' Below f...

Benefits of programming (doing) versus reading blogs (thinking?)

I have come to a conclusion or realization that perhaps many developers I know including myself have a fanatical fascination with reading as many programming and technology blogs or listening to podcasts as humanly possible. I sometimes wonder if this time would be much better spent in actual coding and doing, rather than the incessant ...

Are there any good free blogging tools for programming?

Duplicate of: What is best blogging host for programmers/code formatting? What is a good blog hosting service for programmers? I have currently been using wordpress, but it is very lackluster... I am unable to do any effective code syntax highlighting, for example. I am thinking about simply using github pages, but I don't know if I'...

System case study blogs/books

Does anyone know any good blogs that focus on real life system case studies? There are lots of books on programming tools, languages, design patterns, etc but I haven't seen a book/blog that focuses on case studies of actual systems that have been developed recently. It's great for example to learn about how the Spring framework work...

CodeBetter.com like blogs for Java..

I'm moving from .Net to java. So i wanted to know any good community blog site like CodeBetter.com, of java developers. EDIT: i'm looking for something more than just coding examples, like CodeBetter.com or Artima.com, which influence your thinking. ...

Export Subtext through BlogML

How do you export Subtext through BlogML? What are things to be done for troubleshoot? I googled to find that the Export is not always successful and sometimes messed up. What are the best practices? ...

Blog enginge that is multiblog capable and (optionally) has a debian package?

I guess this question is only semi-programming-related, but I couldn't think of another place to ask. The problem: I am sharing a debian server with a friend, and we host multiple wordpress blogs on the server. The multiblog mechanism for Wordpress provided by debian doesn't take care of having multiple "content" directories, though. As ...

What tools do you use to share information among developers in your group?

We already have mentoring, share information among each other, and hold regular technical sessions. However, we want these things written down, for the record and for new team members in the future. Right now we're at around 30 developers. We're thinking about an internal blog and wiki. While it would be great to share stuff on public...