NOOP.NL: Top 100 Blogs for Developers (Q1 2009)

Top 100 Blogs for Developers (Q1 2009)

Ladies and gentlemen, today I proudly present a brand new edition of the Top 100 Blogs for Developers! Just like the previous edition, this list shows you the 100 best software development blogs in the world.

I worked on this thing for a week. So I hope you enjoy it. And please digg, tweet and bookmark this post generously... ;-)

A couple of things are worth mentioning:

• As usual, this list is a weighed average of multiple rankings: Google page rank, Alexa rank, Technorati rank, Google hits, average number of comments, and Twitter rank.
• Only blogs dealing with (some) generic software engineering topics are allowed. This requirement resulted in the removal of three blogs from this edition: Paul Graham (no software development topics), Rough Type (no software development topics) and PragDave (posts are only about Ruby).
• I also removed a couple of blogs that didn't have any fresh content (= less than three months old, or anything later than November 2008).
• There are 19 new entries on this list. Some of them did not participate in the last edition, because nobody had told me about them at the time, which accounts for some very high new entries.
• The most remarkable change in this edition is Signal vs. Noise, moving from #67 to #5, which is largely due to their Google page rank having been upgraded from 4 to 7 since last time. Quite an achievement!
• Some other great performers in this edition are: Regular Geek, Mike Cohn, James Bach, Software by Rob, and Agile Software Development. I congratulate them all!
• Unlike last time, I did not include FeedRank in the calculations. The FeedRank statistics turned out to be more erratic than Alan Greenspan's economical predictions. So I discarded them.
• However, unlike last time, I now included Twitter rank in the calculations. Micro-blogging is a logical extension of the activities of many bloggers. Therefore their performance in micro-blogging is now part of the overall blog ranks.
• You can click the names in the Author/Twitter column to find and follow blog authors on Twitter.
• Shall I say it? No... Yes... No, I shouldn't... Of course I can... No, not now... Ah, what the hell. My blog is at #24. As of today, my own blog has joined the ranks of most popular 25 software development blogs in the world. Yay!!
• If you want to be included on this list, then send me an email and make sure you earn high ratings on Google, Alexa, Technorati and Twitter. Please note that I only track blogs with a Google page rank of at least 3. (And there are just three blogs with page rank 3 on the top 100 list. All others have page rank 4 or higher.)
• There is an OPML file available if you want to import the complete top 100 list (+25 extra) into your feed reader.
• There is also a spreadsheet available with 200 blogs, incuding the individual rankings on Google, Technorati, Alexa, and Twitter.

Here is the full list. Enjoy...

TT LT Blog / Site Author / Twitter 1 1 Joel on Software Joel Spolsky 2 3 Coding Horror Jeff Atwood 3 6 Martin Fowler's Bliki Martin Fowler 4 11 The Daily WTF (various) 5 67 Signal vs. Noise (various) 6 5 Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen Scott Hanselman 7 10 Rands in Repose Michael Lopp 8 7 Bokardo: Social Design Joshua Porter 9 8 Stevey's Blog Rants Steve Yegge 10 19 Stack Overflow Jeff Atwood 11 12 Eric.Weblog() Eric Sink 12 9 Lambda the Ultimate (various) 13 13 Raible Designs Matt Raible 14 14 Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life Dare Obasanjo 15 17 Jon Udell Jon Udell 16 15 UIE Brain Sparks Jared Spool 17 23 ThoughtBlogs (various) 18 27 CodeBetter.Com (various) 19 25 High Scalability (various) 20 28 Object Mentor Blog (various) 21 41 Regular Geek Rob Diana 22 21 Otaku, Cedric's Weblog Cedric 23 47 Mike Cohn's Blog: Succeeding with Agile Mike Cohn 24 37 NOOP.NL Jurgen Appelo 25 18 The Berkun Blog Scott Berkun 26 38 Good coders code, great reuse Peteris Krumins 27 61 James Bach’s Blog James Bach 28 20 Artima Weblogs (various) 29 33 Google Testing Blog (various) 30 22 J.D. Meier's Blog J.D. Meier 31 -- Alex Payne Alex Payne 32 26 10x Software Development Steve McConnell 33 29 secretGeek Leon Bambrick 34 -- Business of Software Blog Neil Davidson 35 -- Contrast | The Blog (various) 36 34 Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight... James McGovern 37 43 Project Shrink Bas de Baar 38 45 StevenHarman.net Steven Harman 39 24 Shanine.com / omar / Omar Shahine 40 66 Software by Rob Rob Walling 41 57 Agile Testing Grig Gheorghiu 42 36 Alistair Cockburn Alistair Cockburn 43 77 Agile Software Development (various) 44 56 Tyner Blain Scott Sehlhorst 45 44 Interoperability Happens Ted Neward 46 48 Pure Danger Tech Alex Miller 47 39 Managing Product Development Johanna Rothman 48 64 Elegant Code (various) 49 58 Coding the Architecture (various) 50 -- Ted Leung on the Air Ted Leung 51 -- Relevance Blog (various) 52 49 Reforming Project Management Hal Macomber 53 46 James Shore: The Art of Agile James Shore 54 59 Knowing.NET Larry O'Brien 55 -- Blankenthoughts Jeff Blankenburg 56 79 David Chelimsky David Chelimsky 57 82 Aligning Technology, Strategy, People & Projects Eric Brown 58 40 It's Just a Bunch of Stuff That Happens Eric Burke 59 30 Dr. Dobb's CodeTalk (various) 60 50 Better Projects Craig Brown 61 75 Lean Software Engineering Corey Ladas 62 51 {Codesqueeze} Max Pool 63 68 /\ndy Andy Hunt 64 69 All About Agile Kelly Waters 65 72 Herding Cats Glen Alleman 66 97 Exploration Through Example Brian Marick 67 42 Object Technology Jeff Sutherland 68 55 Implementing Scrum Mike Vizdos 69 52 Agile Management Blog David Anderson 70 96 Bit-Player Brian Hayes 71 -- The Mendicant Bug Jason Adams 72 -- Software Project Management Pawel Brodzinski 73 -- A Software Insiders Point of View R "Ray" Wang 74 71 Meme Agora Neal Ford 75 85 Word Aligned Thomas Guest 76 84 Chris Spagnuolo's EdgeHopper Chris Spagnuolo 77 65 Evolving Web Jim Benson 78 53 The Braidy Tester Micahel 79 -- Tester Tested! Pradeep Soundararajan 80 86 The Cutter Blog (various) 81 74 Jeffrey Palermo (.com) Jeffrey Palermo 82 93 Test Obsessed Elisabeth Hendrickson 83 -- averyBlog James Avery 84 -- GrokCode Jess 85 -- Wide Awake Developers Michael Nygard 86 -- Notes from a Tool User Mark Levison 87 60 Petzold Book Blog Charles Petzold 88 87 Agile Developer Venkat's Blog Venkat Subramaniam 89 95 Creative Chaos Matthew Heusser 90 -- Moserware Jeff Moser 91 -- Codemonkeyism Stephan Schmidt 92 88 Collaborative Software Testing Jonathan Kohl 93 90 Jeff Patton's Holistic Product Design & Development Jeff Patton 94 32 Curious Cat John Hunter 95 -- Yourdon Report Ed Yourdon 96 81 LeadingAnswers Mike Griffiths 97 99 Silk and Spinach Kevin Rutherford 98 -- Lazycoder Scott Koon 99 92 Clarke Ching - More Chilli Please Clarke Ching 100 -- Raven's Brain Raven Young

Legend
TT = Position this time
LT = Position last time
-- = New entry on the list
$$ = This author bribed me

You can find a full description of how this top 100 was calculated here: How to Make a Top Blog List.