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Your Favorite .NET Resources?

Last post 03-19-2008, 9:46 PM by The Cowboy. 5 replies.
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  •  08-15-2006, 7:41 AM 20825

    Your Favorite .NET Resources?

    What are your favorite .NET resources (books, magazines, blogs, etc)?

    I usually start my morning with Mike Gunderloy's Larkware [1].  It's all the .NET news you need to know, or at least most of it.  I don't bother sifting through numerous RSS feeds anymore.  I let Mike do that.  He's pretty good at separating the wheat from the chaff.

    As for books, I'm patiently awaiting the relase of Fritz Onion's ASP.NET 2.0 book [2], due in September.  His first book on ASP.NET 1.1 was one of the best written on the topic.

    If audio is your favorite medium, check out both the .NET Rocks show [3] and Mondays [4].  .NET Rocks (dnr) is hosted by Carl Franklin and usually has great .NET related content, not to mention content-heavy interviews with the who's who of .NET programming.  Mondays cannot be explained, it's something you have to hear.  I recommend listening in the privacy of your own home, so you don't look like a jackass when you bust out laughing.  Finally, Millahseconds [5] (with Mark Miller from Mondays) looks like it's almost ready to launch.  Can the world handle this unfiltered dose of Mark Millah!?

    So, what books, blogs, etc are you down with?



    [1] http://www.larkware.com/
    [2] http://pluralsight.com/blogs/fritz/default.aspx
    [3] http://www.dotnetrocks.com/
    [4] http://mondays.pwop.com/
    [5] http://www.millahseconds.com/





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  •  08-16-2006, 11:40 AM 20893 in reply to 20825

    Re: Your Favorite .NET Resources?

    Actually my most used .NET resource is... Google.
  •  08-16-2006, 1:37 PM 20905 in reply to 20825

    Re: Your Favorite .NET Resources?

    Jeff Richter's book.
    "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." - Tweedledee
  •  08-17-2006, 4:14 PM 20948 in reply to 20893

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    Re: Your Favorite .NET Resources?

    +1

    In fact google is pretty much my go-to reference book these days.

    I've had coworkers asking me this week about obscure AIX linkage errors with the latest version of GNU C. I know nothing about AIX, obviously I just look helpful.

    I just keep directing em to google (paste the linkage error in and see what you get). It's worked every time so far, and some of em have been seriously wacky.

  •  03-18-2008, 11:48 AM 29987 in reply to 20825

    Re: Your Favorite .NET Resources?

    I always start the day with a good game!  Gameroom has thousands!
    http://www.gameroom.com
  •  03-19-2008, 9:46 PM 30002 in reply to 20825

    Re: Your Favorite .NET Resources?

    1. .NET Rocks
    2. MSDN/Code magazines
    3. Rocky Lhotka's CSLA book (don't have the new one yet)
    4. 4GuysFromRolla (frequent useful stuff)
    5. Channel 9
    6. Google, which led me to Buck Hodges' blog while I was creating our daily build with Team Build.  That was invaluable. 

    Thanks for the tip on Fritz Onion's book.  I've just gotten back into ASP.Net after a year and a half of smart client work, and was looking for a resource  (or about to look for a resource, at any rate).

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