Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q3 2009)

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September 28, 2009

This is a great day!

From today NOOP.NL can claim to be the #1 software development-related blog in Europe.

Well, that’s nice.

And some other people are also doing well on this new edition of the Top 200 Blogs for Developers. Jeff Atwood has replaced Scott Hanselman, meaning that he now has the #1 Development Blog in the world! And look at Scott Berkun, shooting up to the #3 spot. How does he do that? He’s not even a developer! Plus, we have no less than 21 new entries on the list. I’m sure there’s something for everyone here.

Like before, I created this list using Google PageRank, Technorati Authority, Alexa Rank, Google links, Twitter Grader Rank, AideRSS PostRank and the Mongolian Stock Exchange. (For more information see: How to Make a Top Blog List.) And like before, I hope you will tweet, digg, bookmark, and comment the hell out of this article! It was, as usual, a tremendous amount of work.

I have updated a significant number of Twitter names in this list, and I’m confident that this is now the best list of software development twitterers in the world. Use it to connect with all soft dev gurus and celebrities. And don’t forget to follow me as well: @jurgenappelo. I try no to be boring. Usually.

If you want to import all feeds in your reader, grab the OPML file here.

(Note: The list does not contain blogs where the authors exclusively write about specific tools or technologies, like .NET, or Java. Every blog should have at least _some_ content that is of interest to every developer regardless of technical background.)

TT	LT	Site	Author	Twitter
1	2	Coding Horror	Jeff Atwood	codinghorror
2	1	Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen	Scott Hanselman	shanselman
3	12	The Berkun Blog	Scott Berkun	berkun
4	4	Lambda the Ultimate	(various)
5	5	UIE Brain Sparks	Jared Spool	jmspool
6	11	Bokardo: Social Design	Joshua Porter	bokardo
7	7	Dr. Dobb's CodeTalk	(various)
8	15	Stack Overflow	Jeff Atwood
9	10	Joel on Software	Joel Spolsky	spolsky
10	13	CodeBetter.Com	(various)	codebetter
11	9	Martin Fowler's Bliki	Martin Fowler	martinfowler
12	6	Raible Designs	Matt Raible	mraible
13	21	Artima Weblogs	(various)
14	40	Signal vs. Noise	(various)	37signals
15	17	Object Mentor Blog	(various)
16	8	Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life	Dare Obasanjo	carnage4life
17	16	Jon Udell	Jon Udell	judell
18	19	The Daily WTF	(various)	dailywtf
19	14	Rands in Repose	Michael Lopp	rands
20	23	NOOP.NL	Jurgen Appelo	jurgenappelo
21	29	A Software Insiders Point of View	R "Ray" Wang	rwang0
22	22	Regular Geek	Rob Diana	robdiana
23	18	Project Shrink	Bas de Baar	projectshrink
24	--	Atlassian Developer Blog	(various)	atlassian
25	--	The Endeavour	John D. Cook	JohnDCook
26	3	High Scalability	Todd Hoff
27	24	Jeffrey Palermo (.com)	Jeffrey Palermo	jeffreypalermo
28	38	Google Testing Blog	(various)
29	44	Contrast \| The Blog	(various)
30	56	Leading Agile	Mike Cottmeyer	mcottmeyer
31	36	Alex Payne	Alex Payne	al3x
32	31	Agile Management Blog	David Anderson	agilemanager
33	37	It's Just a Bunch of Stuff That Happens	Eric Burke	burke_eric
34	25	Pure Danger Tech	Alex Miller	puredanger
35	57	Blankenthoughts	Jeff Blankenburg	jblankenburg
36	65	Chris Spagnuolo's EdgeHopper	Chris Spagnuolo	chrisspagnuolo
37	39	Elegant Code	(various)	elegantcode
38	32	secretGeek	Leon Bambrick	secretgeek
39	--	Pathfinder	(various)
40	84	Evolving Web	Jim Benson	ourfounder
41	43	CodeThinked	Justin Etheredge	justinetheredge
42	30	Ted Leung on the Air	Ted Leung	twleung
43	72	Agile Blog	(various)	agileblog
44	91	Alistair Cockburn	Alistair Cockburn	totheralistair
45	52	Managing Product Development	Johanna Rothman	johannarothman
46	81	Software application development	Adrian Bridgwater	abridgwater
47	34	Devlicio.us	(various)	devlicious
48	42	Aligning Technology, Strategy, People & Projects	Eric Brown	ericdbrown
49	54	Business of Software Blog	Neil Davidson	neildavidson
50	90	Agile Software Development Made Easy	Kelly Waters	allaboutagile
51	26	Interoperability Happens	Ted Neward	tedneward
52	94	The Cutter Blog	(various)	cuttertweets
53	69	Testing at the Edge of Chaos	Matthew Heusser	mheusser
54	71	James Shore: The Art of Agile	James Shore	jamesshore
55	59	Agile Software Development	(various)	agileartem
56	58	JUnit Max	Kent Beck	kentbeck
57	20	J.D. Meier's Blog	J.D. Meier
58	47	Shanine.com / omar /	Omar Shahine	omarshahine
59	46	Otaku, Cedric's Weblog	Cedric	cbeust
60	51	{Codesqueeze}	Max Pool	mpool
61	53	James Bach’s Blog	James Bach	jamesmarcusbach
62	49	PMThink!	(various)
63	76	Meme Agora	Neal Ford	neal4d
64	62	Mark Needham	Mark Needham	markhneedham
65	28	Better Projects	Craig Brown
66	41	Exploration Through Example	Brian Marick	marick
67	--	Scrum Log	Jeff Sutherland	jeffsutherland
68	61	Relevance Blog	(various)
69	66	/\ndy	Andy Hunt	pragmaticandy
70	74	Mike Cohn's Blog: Succeeding with Agile	Mike Cohn	mikewcohn
71	45	The Third Bit	Greg Wilson
72	86	Curious Cat	John Hunter	curiouscat_com
73	64	Herding Cats	Glen Alleman
74	77	Object Technology	Jeff Sutherland	jeffsutherland
75	89	Tyner Blain	Scott Sehlhorst	sehlhorst
76	78	StevenHarman.net	Steven Harman	stevenharman
77	85	The Mendicant Bug	Jason Adams	ealdent
78	122	Jbrains.ca	J.B. Rainsberger	jbrains
79	79	Implementing Scrum	Mike Vizdos	mvizdos
80	103	You'd think with all my video game experience...	Jason Yip	jchyip
81	99	Petzold Book Blog	Charles Petzold
82	67	Lean Software Engineering	Corey Ladas	corey_ladas
83	111	Quality through Innovation	Adam Goucher	adamgoucher
84	55	Gray's Matter	Justice Gray	justicegray
85	102	Lazycoder	Scott Koon	lazycoder
86	--	The Agile Executive	Israel Gat	agile_exec
87	73	Agile Advice	(various)
88	96	Test Obsessed	Elisabeth Hendrickson	testobsessed
89	--	Agile Buddy Blog	Jack Milunsky	agilebuddy
90	33	Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight...	James McGovern	mcgoverntheory
91	140	Scott Bellware	Scott Bellware	bellware
92	48	Eric.Weblog()	Eric Sink
93	50	Reforming Project Management	Hal Macomber	HalMacomber
94	70	Agile Testing	Grig Gheorghiu
95	114	MrDave's (David Yack) Blog!	David Yack	davidyack
96	92	Insights You Can Use	Esther Derby	estherderby
97	75	Agile Developer Venkat's Blog	Venkat Subramaniam	venkat_s
98	124	Codemonkeyism	Stephan Schmidt	codemonkeyism
99	107	Software Project Management	Pawel Brodzinski	pawelbrodzinski
100	109	DevelopSense Blog	Michael Bolton	michaelbolton
101	112	Crazeegeekchick.com	Dana Coffey	crazeegeekchick
102	121	Good coders code, great reuse	Peteris Krumins	pkrumins
103	87	Coding the Architecture	(various)
104	119	Effective Software Development	Dave Nicolette	davenicolette
105	125	Cory Foy	Cory Foy	cory_foy
106	60	10x Software Development	Steve McConnell
107	105	Ruminations of a Programmer	Debasish Ghosh	debasishg
108	148	Cthulhu and Other Crazies	Swizec	swizec
109	108	Moserware	Jeff Moser	jeffmoser
110	127	Thought Clusters	Krishna Kumar	krishami
111	113	Wille Faler's Buzzword Bingo	Wille Faler	wfaler
112	129	AvailAgility	Karl Scotland	kjscotland
113	104	Agile Software Process Improvement	Jason Gorman	jasongorman
114	101	The Working Geek	Andy Lester	petdance
115	123	Tester Tested!	Pradeep Soundararajan	testertested
116	93	Clarke Ching - More Chilli Please	Clarke Ching
117	132	Information Technology Dark Side	David Christiansen	aldos
118	116	LeadingAnswers	Mike Griffiths
119	--	Sceners.org	Alek	sceners
120	128	Focused Performance	Frank Patrick	fpatrick
121	88	Software by Rob	Rob Walling
122	82	My Secret Life as a Spaghetti Coder	Sammy Larbi	codeodor
123	83	Bit-Player	Brian Hayes
124	151	fede.carg ( blog )	Federico Cargnelutti	fedecarg
125	--	The Secrets of Consulting	Gerald M. Weinberg	jerryweinberg
126	131	Notes from a Tool User	Mark Levison	mlevison
127	27	Hot Needle of Inquiry	Ron Jeffries	ronjeffries
128	--	Successful Software	Andy Brice	successfulsw
129	133	Agile Chronicles	(various)
130	130	Word Aligned	Thomas Guest	thomasguest
131	68	averyBlog	James Avery	averyj
132	117	Antony Marcano's Blog	Antony Marcano
133	157	Legends of the Sun Pig	Martin Sutherland	sunpig
134	142	NetObjectives	(various)
135	163	Thinking Tester	Shrini Kulkarni	shrinik
136	63	The Braidy Tester	Micahel
137	100	Agility@Scale	Scott W. Ambler	scottwambler
138	161	LitheSpeed's LitheBlog	(various)
139	--	Scrum 4 You	Boris Gloger	borisgloger
140	118	Wide Awake Developers	Michael Nygard	mtnygard
141	146	Silk and Spinach	Kevin Rutherford	kevinrutherford
142	150	Me.Andering	Willem van den Ende	most_alive
143	156	Agile in Action	Simon Baker	energizr
144	144	8th Light Blog	(various)
145	98	Edge of Chaos	Michael Dubakov	mdubakov
146	115	Scaling Software Agility	Dean Leffingwell
147	194	Agile Development Thoughts	Damon Poole	damonpoole
148	178	Jimmy Nilsson's Blog	Jimmy Nilsson	jimmynilsson
149	141	Peripatetic Axiom	Keith Braithwaite	keithb_b
150	--	Corporate Coder	Eric Landes	ericlandes
151	--	The Build Doctor	Julian Simpson	builddoctor
152	106	From the Editor of Methods & Tools	Martinig
153	135	I.M. Wright’s “Hard Code”	Eric Brechner
154	110	Collaborative Software Testing	Jonathan Kohl
155	--	Code Justin	Justin
156	138	David Chelimsky	David Chelimsky	dchelimsky
157	143	@Kirkk.com	Kirk Knoernschild	pragkirk
158	137	Enterprise Architecture & Other Enterprise Topics	Mike Kavis	madgreek65
159	192	Hicks-Wright.net	Tyler Griffin Hicks-Wright
160	167	Jonathan Babcock	Jonathan Babcock	jonbab1
161	147	PierG	Piergiorgio Grossi	pierg
162	139	/var/log/mind	Dhananjay Nene	dnene
163	168	Agile Game Development	Clinton Keith
164	145	Steve Rowe's Blog	Steve Rowe	steve_rowe
165	170	Cauvin	Roger L. Cauvin	rcauvin
166	174	Sander Hoogendoorn	Sander Hoogendoorn	aahoogendoorn
167	162	Intergen Blog	(various)	teamintergen
168	136	Shaping Software	J.D. Meier
169	153	Requirements Defined	(various)	seilevel
170	184	Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises	Roger Sessions	rsessions
171	172	Chris McMahon's Blog	Chris McMahon	chris_mcmahon
172	160	Agile Artisans	Jared Richardson	jaredrichardson
173	--	Agile Web Operations	(various)	mmarschall
174	175	Jcooney.NET	Joseph Cooney	josephcooney
175	164	Partnership & Possibilities	Diana Larsen	dianaofportland
176	--	Agile Anarchy	Tobias Mayer	tobiasgmayer
177	--	Paircoaching's Weblog	Yves Hanoulle	yveshanoulle
178	180	James Grenning’s Blog	James Grenning	jwgrenning
179	158	George Dinwiddie's Blog	George Dinwiddie	gdinwiddie
180	166	On Software Development, Agile, Startups, and Social Networking	Isaac Sacolick	nyike
181	169	Rob Bowley	Rob Bowley	robbowley
182	--	Caffeinated Coder	Russell Ball	caffeinatedtwit
183	195	Mult.ifario.us	Paul R. Brown	paulrbrown
184	173	It's Common Sense, Stupid	Soon Hui Ngu
185	196	Matt O’ Rama	Matt Grommes	mattgrommes
186	--	Under the Wire	(various)
187	126	Project Management 2.0	Andrew Filev	andrewsthoughts
188	185	Bartosz Milewski's Programming Cafe	Bartosz Milewski	BartoszMilewski
189	149	Steve Freeman	Steve Freeman
190	179	Agile CMMI Blog	Hillel Glazer	hi11e1
191	--	Agile Elephant	Jordan Haberfield	jordanhaber
192	152	Musings of a Software Development Manager	Ed Gibbs	edward_gibbs
193	183	Engineering Game Development	Lee Winder	spreetree
194	187	Technology Architecture & Projects	Robert McIlree	rmcilree
195	--	The Hacker Chick Blog	Abby Fichtner	HackerChick
196	197	A Test Guy	Dave Liebreich	atestguy
197	--	Kallokain	Henrik Mårtensson	Kallokain
198	182	Rebecca's Blog	Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
199	177	Ytechie	Jason Young	ytechie
200	188	DrunkenPM	Dave Prior	mrsungo

Legend
TT = This Time
LT = Last Time

Note: for some of the statistics I happily used the script that was kindly supplied by Steven Machtelinckx. This saved me a lot of time... Thanks Steven!

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