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+36  Q: 

Which C#/.NET blogs do you read?

What are your favourite C#, .NET and programming blogs?

I'm thinking more along the lines of blogs for experienced profesionals who as well as being interested in keeping up to date with the latest developments in .NET and C# are also interested in:

  • Agile methodologies, but particulary anything with a .NET slant
  • Managing an SOA environment consisting of .NET and Java services
  • Database technologies, e.g. in memory column stores, DR strategies, etc.

To summarise: what should a senior .NET developer be reading? I've got my favourites bookmarked, what are yours?

+15  A: 

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

schooner  2009-02-15 18:14:17
+20  A: 

Scott Guthrie's Blog - Product Manager of the .NET Framework

Andreas Grech  2009-02-15 18:15:27
+4  A: 

http://www.jpboodhoo.com

UPDATE: His DNR TV series is also a must.

David Robbins  2009-02-15 18:15:43
+1 didn't know about this one. cheers.
Andreas Grech  2009-02-15 18:20:06
Highly Recommend the Demystifying Design Patterns series he did on dnrtv - Part 1 here - http://www.dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showNum=63
Russ Cam  2009-02-15 18:23:56
ooh thanks for that, gonna watch it now.
Andreas Grech  2009-02-15 18:28:38
+17  A: 

Eric Lippert's Fabulous Adventures in Coding

ShuggyCoUk  2009-02-15 18:19:44
+12  A: 

CodeBetter ... because they want to code better :) CodingHorror ... because it's good, though I don't always agree with him. (Stop bashing SOLID!) :)

Jeffrey Cameron  2009-02-15 18:19:57
Actually I think Jeff/Joel have a point. SOLID seems way too prescriptive to me.
cletus  2009-02-15 18:31:14
+1 for CodeBetter - no doubt about that! ... neutral-to-negative on that CodingHorror one, though - I think Jeff has way too many posts about him having 3 monitors and buying a new mouse etc etc. - just not sufficiently C#/.NET related
mookid8000  2009-02-15 18:40:10
@mookid: I enjoy the off-topic programming stuff sometimes its relevant@cletus: of course SOLID is prescriptive, read here for why that is generally a good thing: http://codebetter.com/blogs/rob.conery/archive/2009/02/11/patterns-purists-and-sinkholes.aspx
Jeffrey Cameron  2009-02-15 20:46:30
SOLID has its issues but Jeff's reasoning leaves a lot to be desired. A lot of it is hand-wavy self-congratulatory stuff: "You read my blog, so you've ALREADY WON."
BobbyShaftoe  2009-02-16 18:10:16
+12  A: 

Thought it might be useful to post my development blogroll (OPML format - import into Bloglines):

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            <outline title="Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life" text="Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life" htmlUrl="http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Carnage4Life" />
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            <outline title="Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog" text="Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo's Blog" htmlUrl="http://blog.jpboodhoo.com/" type="rss" xmlUrl="http://feeds.feedburner.com/JPBoodhoo" />
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Russ Cam  2009-02-15 18:19:58
Top post - thanks
ng5000  2009-02-15 21:15:52
+2  A: 

Jeff Atwood - You probably already know this guy

http://www.codinghorror.com

Miguel de Icaza - lead developer for mono.net

http://tirania.org/blog/

Brian Bolton  2009-02-15 18:20:26
+2  A: 

As a jump off point to find other blogs you might find interesting Charlie Calvert's Community Blog is excellent

ShuggyCoUk  2009-02-15 18:21:58
+6  A: 

Scott Hanselman

Scott Gutherie

Scott Mitchell

Nikhil Kothari

Canavar  2009-02-15 18:22:59
Do you have to be called Scott for people to read your C# blog?
Ali  2009-02-15 19:20:37
Mark Scott Mitchell off the list. His latest post is: "Blogs are the Most Important Innovation of the 21st Century" ... that is just Robert Scoble echo-chamber valley snob nonsense.
BobbyShaftoe  2009-02-16 21:29:27
+2  A: 
Soltys  2009-02-15 18:26:33
+9  A: 

Ayende's blog

mookid8000  2009-02-15 18:38:07
+1  A: 

Omar Al Zabir blog on ASP.NET Ajax and .NET 3.5 has helped me many times.
Jimmy Nilsson Patterns, OO, DB, .NET
INFOQ one of my favourites.

Kb  2009-02-15 21:09:11
+1  A: 

Los Techies

Tobias Hertkorn  2009-02-15 21:52:50
+8  A: 

Jon Skeet's Coding Blog

M4N  2009-02-15 21:57:39
+2  A: 

UnitOfWork

Cshift3iLike  2009-02-16 05:58:17
+4  A: 

Besides the most obvious and popular like ScottGu, StackOverflow, CodeProject, 4GuysFromRolla, etc. here are a few others:

http://www.misfitgeek.com/

http://www.codethinked.com/

http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/

http://stevenharman.net/blog/Default.aspx

http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/default.aspx

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

http://mattberseth.com/

http://encosia.com/

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

jesal  2009-02-16 05:59:21
+1  A: 

http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/default.aspx - Visual Studio tips

http://blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina/default.aspx - Designing Reusable Frameworks

QrystaL  2009-02-16 09:32:20
+1  A: 

http://www.codesqueeze.com/

burnside  2009-02-17 13:16:50
+4  A: 
pirho  2009-02-17 13:30:52
A: 

Thanks all, plenty of new and interesting blogs to add to my favourites list. I only have one on my list that hasn't been mentioned here: Brad Abrams.

ng5000  2009-02-19 09:29:41
+2  A: 

Haacked

Scottgu

ajma  2009-02-19 17:53:29
+3  A: 

Justin Etheredge's CodeThinked is obviously the best ever :-)

 2009-02-19 21:54:30
takes some balls LOL
Gutzofter  2009-10-16 23:06:07
+1  A: 

A lot of those mentioned above, especially Ayende and Rick Strahl.

But to mention two additional ones, I like:

All your base are belong to us

If broken it is, fix it you should

asgerhallas  2009-04-23 20:20:13

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