Life. Or Something Like It.

A couple weeks ago, Darren Rowse of Problogger fame challenged his readers to write a ‘bloggers to watch’ list. Up for another blogging challenge, I am including the top 20% of bloggers and twitter people I follow.

So, in no particular order, here are the people I read regularly. Drumroll, please…

Jurgen Appelo – NOOP.NL

http://www.noop.nl/

@jurgenappelo

Favorites

• The Perfect Job Interview Question
• Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q3 2009)

Joel Spolsky – Joel on Software

http://www.joelonsoftware.com

Favorites

• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
• The Absolute Minimum Ever Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
• Human Task Switches Are Considered Harmful

The Hacker Chick Blog

http://www.thehackerchickblog.com/

@hackerchick

Favorites

• Your Unit Tests Should Mind Their Own Business
• Religious War #48,293: Single Vs. Multiple Returns

Lisa Crispin – Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin

http://lisacrispin.com/wordpress/

@lisacrispin

Favorites

• A Learning Culture
• Independent Testers? Or Independent Thinkers?

Mike Cohn – Succeeding With Agile

http://blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com/

Favorites

• The Role of Leaders on a Self-Organizing Team

Neal Ford – Meme Agora

http://memeagora.blogspot.com/

@neal4d

David Hussman

@davidhussman

DZone – Agile

http://www.dzone.com/links/tag/agile.html

DZone – Methodology

http://www.dzone.com/links/tag/methodology.html

MinnPics – Minnesota Pictures: Photos That Define Minnesota

http://minnpics.blogspot.com/

Favorites

• Orange-ish
• Hopping Across the Mississippi

Mitch Rossow – mitchster.com

http://www.mitchster.com/

Favorites

• Light Rail to Target Field
• Morning Freight Run Over the Mississippi

Digital Photography School

http://digital-photography-school.com/

@digitalps

Favorites

• Weekly Assignments

Darren Rowse

@problogger

So who is in your top 20%?