Blogs you have missed but probably should be reading
In this post I will share links to some of the blogs I am reading and subscribed to and I think you could benefit from reading them as well.
Most of the links point to the blogs of not so well-known developers, but in most cases one of those blogs contains more useful, better and more detailed information then all the blogs of so called "internet celebs" or other over-hyped blogs (you probably know what kind of blogs I am referring to here) together.
Unless of course, you never wrote a hello world program or you want to read benchmark reports comparing different PHP frameworks / <enter your favorite app / tool / framework / whatever name here> which totally miss the point and are irrelevant or not not applicable in the real world. The problem is that the author clearly doesn't know what he is doing (yes, comparing framework performance with outputing "hello world" or making one database query is very relevant to the application you are currently writing / working on).
Oh, and while am at it, if you haven't already you should read Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All.
Before complaining why XYZ blog which "is totally cool and contains a lot of useful information" is not listed here, keep in mind that is just a short list of good blogs I read.
There are (thankfully) many more valuable blogs on the internet, but I'm trying to keep this list short with primary emphasis on some of not so well-known and popular blogs (too bad it's hard and it takes too much time to filter good from the bad, hopefully guys dealing with the synpatic web will figure something out soon and computers will do all the filtering for us).
Anyway, I digress, so here we go.
Invisible to the eye (http://giorgiosironi.blogspot.com) - blog by Italian software engineer Giorgio Sironi
Contains many good posts about unit testing and software development in general.
CodeUtopia (http://codeutopia.net/blog/) - blog by Finish web developer Jani Hartikainen
Many posts about web development (mostly PHP and JavaScript) and some interesting posts about his Javascript browser based game TankWar.
Krondoblog (http://krondo.com/blog/) - blog written by great software developer Dave Peticolas
This blog contains excellent series of posts about asynchronous programming, reactor pattern and Twisted Python framework (a must read if you plan to do any kind of network programming with Python and Twisted framework).
Poo-tee-weet (http://pooteeweet.org) - written by web developer Lukas Kahwe Smith
You can find almost anything on this blog - from PHP and design patterns to Yahoo pipes.
The Playground of VinylFox (http://www.vinylfox.com) - blog written by the author of the Learning ExtJS book Shea Frederick
Contains some interesting posts about Ext JS.
Vaporware inc. - (http://mituzas.lt) - blog written by ex. Sun developer Domas Mituzas
Good posts about optimizing and scaling MySQL and MySQL internals.
MySQL Performance Blog (http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com) - blog written by multiple authors
This is a probably pretty well-known and popular blog but I still mention it here because it contains some great posts.
It is exactly opposite of the example I have written above - most of the guys on this blog actually know what they are doing so their performance analysis can be useful and relevant to real life data.
High Scalability - building bigger, faster, more reliable websites (http://www.highscalability.com/) - blog written by Todd Hoff
This is another probably pretty well-known blog, but it deserved its place in this post, because it contains some excellent posts about building scalable websites and systems.
Another good thing about this blog is, that you can find many posts which contain short excerpts and links to good posts from other blogs around the web.
James Carr (http://blog.james-carr.org) - Blog by James carr
Good blog about agile development and design patterns. Most examples are somehow related to Java but can easily be applied to other languages / frameworks / tools.
Akra’s DevNotes (http://akrabat.com/) - blog written by PHP developer Rob Allen from United Kingdom.
This blog is primarily about PHP and it contains some good posts about Zend Framework.
On Agile (http://on-agile.blogspot.com) - blog written by Empirica Software Solutions companyfounder Ryan Cooper.
Contains some good post about agile development and general software development practices.
dynaTrace blog - (http://blog.dynatrace.com) - blog written by dynaTrace developers
Most of the posts are related to web applications performance, scalability and architecture (mostly about JavaScript and AJAX).
It is true that most of the examples use their tool dynaTrace (they even have a free version but it only works in Internet Explorer, so most of the time I'll be sticking with Firebug), but findings can easily be transferred to other applications and technologies.
Rudimentary Art of Programming & Development (http://rapd.wordpress.com)
Contains some good posts about software development, Python and some other stuff.