Which websites do you frequent?

DT4K

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I've seen similar posts on AT, but most of those topics seem to focus on hardware sites.

I'm more interested in which websites you developers visit.

I've been doing MS software development (mostly .Net and SQL) for the past 8 years, but I feel like I need to spend a little more time keeping up to date on new technology and industry news. Given my background and my job, I'm most interested in sites with a lot of info on MS development, but I'd also like to keep up with news about other development technology, and other general IT stuff.

So where do you spend your time on the web?
 

Ka0t1x

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Not too keen on MS Development but.. in other aspects..

LifeHacker
Gizmodo
Engadget
SmallNetBuilder
MacRumors.com -- Apple
HardMac.com -- Apple

http://railsenvy.com/ -- Rails
http://railscasts.com/ -- Rails

I have a subscription to a lot of free development podcasts/screencasts too, but those are at home and I'm at work currently. If you have iTunes I'd check the podcast section there too, especially the iTunes U programs.
 

degibson

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www.cppreference.com

I develop mostly on Linux and Solaris, so I google 'man whatever' a lot.

I find that IBM's STL reference is also pretty good, and occasionally the MSDN has some good non-MS-specific snippets.
 

PhatoseAlpha

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I use MSDN quite frequently for development help. But when it comes to new technology, I'd like to include the opinions of people who aren't selling the stuff.

You'll be waiting a long time then. It only comes in three flavors - people selling the stuff, people selling stuff made with the stuff, and people giving you the stuff for free to charge you an arm and a leg for support.
 

DT4K

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You'll be waiting a long time then. It only comes in three flavors - people selling the stuff, people selling stuff made with the stuff, and people giving you the stuff for free to charge you an arm and a leg for support.

So on the hardware side, which of these flavors would you consider Anandtech, ExtremeTech, PCWorld ?

I'm looking for sites similar to those, but focused more on software and development.
 

PhatoseAlpha

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Anandtech is in the second category. A review of hardware is still made with the hardware, and while the payments you make are in the form of advertising exposure instead of cash, they are payments all the same.
 

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I usually just google stuff for coding, but I find myself on cplusplus.com a lot and php.net for php. I wish there was a php.net like site for C++ though, I find php is so well organized and easy to find info. cplusplus.com is the closest thing that I've found but is mostly geared towards STL. Something that has 3rd party library information very well laid out would be nice too.

I find myself on MSDN sometimes too, though I'm not that big on MS based coding, most of my coding is in Linux. I do have a big C# app I manage so I do use MSDN for that mostly but normally just use google then land on MSDN from there.