Yesterday, I intereviewed a candidate for CodeGear public and analyst relations (yes, CodeGear is hiring in the marketing, sales, and development areas). During the interview, we discussed how to work with the programming press, what editors/columnists to stay in touch with, editorial calendars, industry analysts, developer web sites and blogs, and many other aspects of modern public and industry analyst relations.
I asked the candidate which developer magazines were important. I asked what editors/columnists/reviewers we should interact with. I asked what developer web sites and blogs we should track and collaborate with. While the interview was going on, I thought to myself, “these topics would be a good blog entry and developer survey set of questions. So here you go developer community.
What printed developer magazines do you read?
What developer columnists/editors to you follow?
What developer web sites do you frequest?
What programming blogs do you track?
What programming book authors and conference speakers do you enjoy?
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I used to read BYTE, that was a GREAT magazine. Currently I read ‘this blog’, arstechnica.com, msdn.microsoft.com and wikipedia.com as main sources.
It’s funny, I no longer read magazines and I rarely pick up books though I do buy a lot of O’Reily’s Cookbook series. I also am thinking of buying the Pragmatic Programmer.
A quick overview of my subscribed developer feeds:
<a href="http://delphi.about.com/">About Delphi Programming</a>
<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/default.aspx">Brad Abrams</a>
CodeGear Blogging Community
<a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/">Coding Horror</a>
<a href="http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog/">Steve Trefethen’s Weblog</a>
<a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/default.aspx">ScottGu’s Blog</a>
www.codeproject.com
This is sad but the last conference I was at was here in Denver when Borland was first selling Delphi 1.0. My "problem" is that I learn via reading and examples, not by listening so give me a well written blog article and I’ll absorb way more than if you tell me in a keynote.
SD Times, ThServerSide.Net, dotnetrocks.com, www.firebird.com.mx
foros.ryanstudios.com (c++Builder community)
dn.codegear.com
http://www.delphifeeds.com/
All blogs about Delphi in one place.
this is my favoryte place to stay tuned.
Bye
David
about.com’s Delphi section has really been more informative and has give quite a few articles lately.
The German view:
Magazine: Entwickler-Magazin
Websites: http://www.dsdt.info, http://www.delphipraxis.net, http://www.delphi-forum.de
Feeds: http://z.about.com/6/g/delphi/b/index.xml, http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/Rss.aspx, http://delphi-notes.blogspot.com/atom.xml, http://www.delphi-forum.de/rss.php, http://www.delphipraxis.net/rdf.php, http://www.delphigl.com/rdf.php, http://www.drbob42.com/rss.xml, http://www.dsdt.info/news/news.xml, http://www.dsdt.info/news/productnews.xml, http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog_rss.xmldata, http://peakxml.com/Rss.aspx
Book authors, conference speakers: Daniel Magin, Bernd Ua, Max Kleiner u.a.
www.delphifeeds.com
about’s Delphi
Two authors that completely changed the way I see, design and work with code both have the same first name and initials! Steve McConnell and Steve Maguire.
McConnell’s Code Complete (2nd edition) and Maguire’s Writing Solid Code are a bit old but they should be mandatory reading for anyone doing any kind of programming. Code Complete also has Pascal examples.
McConnell has some new books that are well worth looking at: http://www.stevemcconnell.com/books.htm
www.delphifeeds.com
dn.codegear.com
foros.ryanstudios.com
solocodigo.com
www.clubdelphi.com
www.delphigamer.com
thats my almost daily delphi website visit routine hehehehehe
cheers
> What printed developer magazines do you read?
Used to read The Delphi Magazine, but unfortunately it’s gone.
> What developer columnists/editors to you follow?
Three people stood out: Julian M. Bucknall, Bob Swart and Hallvard Vassbotn. Fortunately, they both continue to publish valuable info on their blogs.
> What developer web sites do you frequest?
None.
> What programming blogs do you track?
Many. All at www.delphifeed.com plus
http://hallvards.blogspot.com/
http://www.boyet.com/rss.xml
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/default.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/
http://www.schneier.com/blog/
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/bliki.rss
(some of them may already been covered by the delphifeed aggregator)
> What programming book authors and conference speakers do you enjoy?
Many
As of Delphi books - Julian, Marco Cantu and Ray Lischer come to mind.
1) Q: What printed developer magazines do you read?
[confession]I sometimes read the SDGN (Dutch developer network) magazine, but lately it’s all microsoft-y and no codegear-y 
[/confession]
A: print-outs of webpages? huh?
2) Q: What developer columnists/editors to you follow?
A: All I follow them through is their blogs
3) Q: What developer web sites do you frequest?
A: None
4) Q: What programming blogs do you track?
A: Codegear blogs, Delphifeeds.com, http://www.thepythia.com/ (recently), Joel on software, The DailyWTF (Love this one, makes me smile everyday!), Steve Trefethen’s blog.
5) Q: What programming book authors and conference speakers do you enjoy?
A: No specific ones
PS. I think asking blog readers for their opinion kind of narrows the results
http://www.delphifeeds.com/
http://bdn.borland.com/
http://www.realcoding.net/
http://forum.vingrad.ru/
http://www.delphikingdom.com/
http://www.delphimaster.ru/
> What printed developer magazines do you read?
Communications of the ACM. That’s about it for in-print.
> What developer columnists/editors to you follow?
Verity Stob.
> What developer web sites do you frequest?
> What programming blogs do you track?
http://www.bloglines.com/public/CraigStuntz
> What programming book authors and conference speakers do you enjoy?
People I haven’t seen at a conference yet who I’d like to hear:
o Anders Hejlsberg
o Raymond Chen
o Steve Yegge
o Matt Pietrek
o Mark Chu-Carrol
Magazines I read: Embedded Software Design
Columnists: Jack Crenshaw, Jack Ganssle
Websites: torry.net, delphi.about.com, csharpcorner.com
Blogs: Nick Hodges’ blog, Jeff Duntemann’s blog, others as search results
Authors: Jeff Richter, Chris Sells, Marco Cantu, Xavier Pacheco, Jon Shemitz
magazines : I used to read the Delphi mag and UKBUG mag.
web sites : Dr Bob and Borland newsgroups, although this is the first time I have looked for over a year.
authors : I have Marco Cantu’s book (Delphi 3).
I am basically following blogs these days. If I have a specific programming question I pop up Google and go find the answer.
I follow the following Blogs.
http://blog.marcocantu.com/
http://blogs.codegear.com/abauer/
http://blogs.codegear.com/nickhodges/
http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog/
and of course Sip from the Firehose…
What printed developer magazines do you read?
None, they are all behind on everyting on the internet.
What developer columnists/editors to you follow?
None special. Just browsing for (Delphi) articles almost daily.
What developer web sites do you frequest?
http://www.NLDelphi.com / BDN (CDN :)) / MSDN. Browsing the newsgroups using Google
What programming blogs do you track?
Anything mentioning Delphi
This is my OPML: http://www.nldelphi.com/temp/delphi.opml
What programming book authors and conference speakers do you enjoy?
Marco Cantu, Michael Li, Jim Cooper, Chad Z. Hower, Cary Jensen, Brian Long, Mark Miller, David I
Well I tend to read my own a lot
http://delphi.blue-aura.co.uk
My new one:
http://www.delphifusion.com
As well as the old favourites
http://delphi.about.com
http://www.delphibasics.co.uk
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