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November 26

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March 19

100 best software development blogs in the world

Few informations are worth mentioning:

  • As usual, this list is a weighed average of multiple rankings: Google page rank, Alexa rank, Technorati rank, Google hits, average number of comments, and Twitter rank.
  • Only blogs dealing with (some) generic software engineering topics are allowed. This requirement resulted in the removal of three blogs from this edition: Paul Graham (no software development topics), Rough Type (no software development topics) and PragDave (posts are only about Ruby).
  • I also removed a couple of blogs that didn't have any fresh content (= less than three months old, or anything later than November 2008).
  • There are 19 new entries on this list. Some of them did not participate in the last edition, because nobody had told me about them at the time, which accounts for some very high new entries.
  • The most remarkable change in this edition is Signal vs. Noise, moving from #67 to #5, which is largely due to their Google page rank having been upgraded from 4 to 7 since last time. Quite an achievement!
  • Some other great performers in this edition are: Regular Geek, Mike Cohn, James Bach, Software by Rob, and Agile Software Development. I congratulate them all!
  • Unlike last time, I did not include FeedRank in the calculations. The FeedRank statistics turned out to be more erratic than Alan Greenspan's economical predictions. So I discarded them.
  • However, unlike last time, I now included Twitter rank in the calculations. Micro-blogging is a logical extension of the activities of many bloggers. Therefore their performance in micro-blogging is now part of the overall blog ranks.
  • You can click the names in the Author/Twitter column to find and follow blog authors on Twitter.
  • If you want to be included on this list, then send me an email and make sure you earn high ratings on Google, Alexa, Technorati and Twitter. Please note that I only track blogs with a Google page rank of at least 3. (And there are just three blogs with page rank 3 on the top 100 list. All others have page rank 4 or higher.)
  • There is an OPML file available if you want to import the complete top 100 list (+25 extra) into your feed reader.
  • There is also a spreadsheet available with 200 blogs, incuding the individual rankings on Google, Technorati, Alexa, and Twitter.

Here is the full list. Enjoy...

TT LT Blog / Site Author / Twitter
1 1 Joel on Software Joel Spolsky
2 3 Coding Horror Jeff Atwood
3 6 Martin Fowler's Bliki Martin Fowler
4 11 The Daily WTF (various)
5 67 Signal vs. Noise (various)
6 5 Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen Scott Hanselman
7 10 Rands in Repose Michael Lopp
8 7 Bokardo: Social Design Joshua Porter
9 8 Stevey's Blog Rants Steve Yegge
10 19 Stack Overflow Jeff Atwood
11 12 Eric.Weblog() Eric Sink
12 9 Lambda the Ultimate (various)
13 13 Raible Designs Matt Raible
14 14 Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life Dare Obasanjo
15 17 Jon Udell Jon Udell
16 15 UIE Brain Sparks Jared Spool
17 23 ThoughtBlogs (various)
18 27 CodeBetter.Com (various)
19 25 High Scalability (various)
20 28 Object Mentor Blog (various)
21 41 Regular Geek Rob Diana
22 21 Otaku, Cedric's Weblog Cedric
23 47 Mike Cohn's Blog: Succeeding with Agile Mike Cohn
24 37 NOOP.NL Jurgen Appelo
25 18 The Berkun Blog Scott Berkun
26 38 Good coders code, great reuse Peteris Krumins
27 61 James Bach’s Blog James Bach
28 20 Artima Weblogs (various)
29 33 Google Testing Blog (various)
30 22 J.D. Meier's Blog J.D. Meier
31 -- Alex Payne Alex Payne
32 26 10x Software Development Steve McConnell
33 29 secretGeek Leon Bambrick
34 -- Business of Software Blog Neil Davidson
35 -- Contrast | The Blog (various)
36 34 Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight... James McGovern
37 43 Project Shrink Bas de Baar
38 45 StevenHarman.net Steven Harman
39 24 Shanine.com / omar / Omar Shahine
40 66 Software by Rob Rob Walling
41 57 Agile Testing Grig Gheorghiu
42 36 Alistair Cockburn Alistair Cockburn
43 77 Agile Software Development (various)
44 56 Tyner Blain Scott Sehlhorst
45 44 Interoperability Happens Ted Neward
46 48 Pure Danger Tech Alex Miller
47 39 Managing Product Development Johanna Rothman
48 64 Elegant Code (various)
49 58 Coding the Architecture (various)
50 -- Ted Leung on the Air Ted Leung
51 -- Relevance Blog (various)
52 49 Reforming Project Management Hal Macomber
53 46 James Shore: The Art of Agile James Shore
54 59 Knowing.NET Larry O'Brien
55 -- Blankenthoughts Jeff Blankenburg
56 79 David Chelimsky David Chelimsky
57 82 Aligning Technology, Strategy, People & Projects Eric Brown
58 40 It's Just a Bunch of Stuff That Happens Eric Burke
59 30 Dr. Dobb's CodeTalk (various)
60 50 Better Projects Craig Brown
61 75 Lean Software Engineering Corey Ladas
62 51 {Codesqueeze} Max Pool
63 68 /\ndy Andy Hunt
64 69 All About Agile Kelly Waters
65 72 Herding Cats Glen Alleman
66 97 Exploration Through Example Brian Marick
67 42 Object Technology Jeff Sutherland
68 55 Implementing Scrum Mike Vizdos
69 52 Agile Management Blog David Anderson
70 96 Bit-Player Brian Hayes
71 -- The Mendicant Bug Jason Adams
72 -- Software Project Management Pawel Brodzinski
73 -- A Software Insiders Point of View R "Ray" Wang
74 71 Meme Agora Neal Ford
75 85 Word Aligned Thomas Guest
76 84 Chris Spagnuolo's EdgeHopper Chris Spagnuolo
77 65 Evolving Web Jim Benson
78 53 The Braidy Tester Micahel
79 -- Tester Tested! Pradeep Soundararajan
80 86 The Cutter Blog (various)
81 74 Jeffrey Palermo (.com) Jeffrey Palermo
82 93 Test Obsessed Elisabeth Hendrickson
83 -- averyBlog James Avery
84 -- GrokCode Jess
85 -- Wide Awake Developers Michael Nygard
86 -- Notes from a Tool User Mark Levison
87 60 Petzold Book Blog Charles Petzold
88 87 Agile Developer Venkat's Blog Venkat Subramaniam
89 95 Creative Chaos Matthew Heusser
90 -- Moserware Jeff Moser
91 -- Codemonkeyism Stephan Schmidt
92 88 Collaborative Software Testing Jonathan Kohl
93 90 Jeff Patton's Holistic Product Design & Development Jeff Patton
94 32 Curious Cat John Hunter
95 -- Yourdon Report Ed Yourdon
96 81 LeadingAnswers Mike Griffiths
97 99 Silk and Spinach Kevin Rutherford
98 -- Lazycoder Scott Koon
99 92 Clarke Ching - More Chilli Please Clarke Ching
100 -- Raven's Brain Raven Young

Legend
TT = Position this time
LT = Position last time
-- = New entry on the list
$$ = This author bribed me

You can find a full description of how this top 100 was calculated here: How to Make a Top Blog List.

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October 08

Chat with me!

 
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September 17

Imp. e-books

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June 04

Profiling your .NET code

Profiling gathers information about an executing application, allowing you to determine those improvements that are required in your application.
Ten reasons why you should bother profiling your .NET code
1) Focus on portions of your .NET code that really require attention
2) Identify code blocks with performance issues
3) Compare alternative approaches
4) Get accurate code execution response times
5) Avoid guessing performance issues
6) Visualize performance and memory usage
7) Track the lifecycle of your .NET objects
8) Avoid unnecessary loading or initialization of your program
9) Optimize your looping constructs in .NET
10) Identify memory leaks in your application

How to profile your .NET code?

  • CLR Profiler
  • Using PerfMon
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May 24

Problem opening report solution: Project item '#itemn°#' does not represent a file.

Today I had some problems with a report solution created in Visual Studio 2005:
After I got the latest version out of SourceSafe, I could not open it anymore. The error message was "Project item '4294967294' does not represent a file."
Searching for this error on the internet I came to this solution:

- Open the .rptproj file in notepad (or another text editor) and delete the line that begins with "<State>$base64$"

       Sometime in notepad you may not view complete data, so try to open in CMD -> Edit window.
- Open the solution
- Delete the source control bindings
- Add it to source control again
- Done!

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May 20

Visual studio 2005 Asp.net Issue

Yesterday I got this error message while running Asp.net application in Visual studio 2005

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ASP.NET Development Server
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ASP.NET Development Server failed to start listening on port 1085.
Error message:
An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions
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OK  
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By default the web application uses ASP.NET development server not the IIS. We
can change it to IIS by selecting Project Properties->Web Tab. There we can
create the virtual directory too.
The error must be specifying some port. I try to use some tools like TcpView from
Sysinternals (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/TcpView.html) to check that
port is used by some other process. Normally development server will take the
free port while running the application.

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