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So my last posting on feeds was everything but my Ruby/Rails RSS feeds and engineering feeds.

Here are my biggies.

General engineering / software / project management

• Rands in Repose (Already mentioned)
• Joel on Software - (Also on Amy’s list.) This was one of the first blogs to sum up a body of common knowledge regarding software, project manager, and software business practices. No one thing Joel Spolsky said was particularly astounding, but the general strand of good sense was highly valuable. Among other things, Spolsky has well-defended the idea that great developers need great offices, great tools, decent pay, and the right amount of work. Not much new stuff from Joel recently.
• That’s really it.
• There are some other bloggers that I’ve been avid for in the past, such as Jeremy Zawodny, Matt Raible, Phil Windley, James Gosling, Cameron Purdy, Eric Sink, and others, but it’s amazing how a lot of these folks have cooled off. Also, sometimes bloggers become quasi-famous, and then they think they can blog about whatever they want. But guess what, I was interested in their core competency. So they get unsubscribed.

Ruby and Rails

• Amy and I both subscribe to Err the Blog, Rails Envy, Jamis Buck, Amy Hoy, Nuby on Rails, Riding Rails, and Loud Thinking. See Amy’s post to get those URLs.
• Headius, Charles Nutter’s blog on JRuby.
• Ruby Inside, the blog of Peter Cooper, author of Beginning Ruby.
• Ola Bini’s blog; Ola is a developer at ThoughtWorks who contributes to JRuby. Ola seems to be one of the smartest bloggers out there. I learn something from every post.
• O’Reilly Ruby. The best posts are by Greg Brown, who has talked to the Boston Ruby Group.
• Rubylution - This one has a nice post on operator precedence that builds on what I warned you about regarding and, &&, &.

That’s enough for now. Let the group know if you find any interesting blogs that are relevant to the course.