Steven Rockarts - Explaining my BlogRoll

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

I updated my blogroll on the right hand side today with sites that I read daily. Since a lot of people don't have time to individually go to each one I thought I would explain each one here and if you like them you can go look for yourself. Please let me know in the comments what websites you read every day. Maybe there are some cool ones that I have missed that I would be interested in.

“Caution” a lot of them are stuff only a developer/geek would enjoy.

.NET Rocks!

.NET Rocks! Full WMA Downloads

.Net Rocks is a internet audio talk show that has a new guest on each week to talk about .NET

Alberta.ca News

Press releases from the government of Alberta. This site has been getting tons of updates on the recent flooding here in Alberta.

Ars Technica

A technology news site that I think has the best unbiased coverage.

Book Club

Ken's blog more than the book club. I was in a virtual computert book club that Ken was kind enough to put on. It is now ended but I am sure we will all stay in touch.

Bug Bash

A cool technology comic strip that comes out every Monday.

Carl Franklin

The host of .Net rocks.

Catherine Jane

My girlfriend's blog "blush"

CodeBetter.Com

An aggregate of a bunch of passionate developers who like to help other developers "code better". I like a lot of the topics these people post about.

ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman's Weblog

Probably my favorite blog I read. Scott put out a Ultimate Tools list for your computer that will never be matched. He is also one of the developers that works on DasBlog. The weblog engine that powers my blog.

Engadget

This is the best technology website/coverage out there hands down.

ESPN.com - NHL

ESPN/NHL news feed.

Geekswithblogs.net

The title explains it all. I have a blog on here but so far the post count is 0.

Google Blog - Live

Pretty much just marketing bullshit from google. I don't know why I still read it.

hack a day

These guys post cool projects that I like to attempt and then never finish.

Joel on Software

Joel is probably the most influential software blogger out there.

Joystiq

Video game news site.

Ken Lefebrve

Ken's blog from the book club. One of the nicest people you will ever meet virtually haha.

LiquidTrout

My cousin Chris' production company. I design and maintain the site.

Luke Hutteman's Weblog

Luke is the creator of my RSS aggregator SharpReader. He never posts though.

MAKE: Blog

Make also has cool projects that I like to start and then never finish.

Mark's Sysinternals Blog

Sysinternals is a really cool tool to use that shows a lot of detailed information. Mark usually posts cool little investigations he has done into processes running on his computer.

Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet

Chris Sells is a funny/smart developer whose opinion I hold in high regard.

Microsoft Forums: Visual C# General

Microsoft Forums: Visual C# Language

Mostly just beginners post here but your question is always answer in record time.

Microsoft PressPass - Press Releases

Pretty much just marketing bullshit from Microsoft. I don't know why I still read it.

Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley

Mary Jo has the latest information on upcoming Microsoft products and what is going on with the company in general.

Microsoft WebBlogs

This is an aggregation of Microsoft employees blogs. My favorites are Larry Osterman's blog and Heather Leigh's blog.

Most Recent KBs for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1

Believe it or not even Microsoft writes code with bugs in it. This is the newest articles from Microsoft support.

MSDN Canada Presents Community Radio

Radio from the MSDN Canada team.

MSDN Just Published

MSDN: Coding4Fun

MSDN: Visual C#

New articles posted on the Microsoft developer network. Coding4Fun is actually a lot of fun.

Neopoleon.com

Rory Blyth's blog. Rory is a former developer turned Microsoft employee but you don't necessarily have to be a developer to read his blog. He is a liquid out your nose funny guy. Probably my 2nd favorite blog.

Pluralsight Blogs

Pluralsight trains Microsoft employees, enough said.

Podcasts

Pretty crappy name that I should probably change but this is the Engadget podcast where they talk about the latest news to come out of the world of technology.

Richard Campbell Blogs Too

Richard is the cohost of .Net Rocks and he is Canadian so that doesn't hurt.

Rockford Lhotka

Rocky is the man when it comes to business objects and writing object oriented code. He is very very smart.

Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger

Scripting News

If you read Scoble and scripting news you are on the cutting edge of what is happening with blogs and rss.

shahine.com/omar/

Omar is another developer who works on DasBlog.

Steven Rockarts

Steven is a developer from Edmonton who seems to have the same name as this website.

The Daily WTF: The Daily WTF