Joining Twitter was an intimidating experience for me. I felt like the new
kid in school where everyone had already formed into their own little cliques The thought of tweeting about .NET development,
or anything really, felt ridiculous when the only person following me was my wife.
And while I still don't have many followers on Twitter, I have found that the experience
became much easier once I started following twitterers who tweet often and take the time to respond to your replies.
Personally, I don't think I truly appreciated what Twitter had to offer until I witnessed one twitterer tweeting a tough programming problem he was stuck on, only to be flooded with solutions minutes after by his followers. You just don't get that kind of instantaneous and interactive feedback from message boards, books, or Google searches.
With that said, here is my list of twitterers I think every ASP.NET developer should
be following. Please feel free to leave your suggestions for this list in
the comments!
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Scott Hanselman
This one is a no brainer. Scott is a senior program manager at Microsoft and was one of the authors of the Professional ASP.NET 3.5 book. His
blog and podcast are both
widely followed by .NET developers and his Twitter feed should be too.
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Phil Haack
Another no brainer. Phil, like Scott, is also a senior program manager at
Microsoft in addition to being one of the leads on the new ASP.NET MVC framework
and the creator of the open source .NET blogging engine,
Subtext. His blog is an excellent
resource for .NET developers, especially those interested in the MVC framework.
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Rob Conery
Rob is the creator of SubSonic, an open-source
object relational mapper
that, in my opinion, is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Rob was recently
hired by Microsoft to work on the new ASP.NET MVC framework. He is also the
author of the
MVC Storefront series, a series of video clips detailing his creation of
a web-based storefront using the new MVC framework. Like the rest of the twitterers
on this list, Rob also updates his blog
frequently.
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Jeff Atwood
The infamous author of CodingHorror,
an absolutely ridiculously popular blog on programming. Jeff doesn't post
much on .NET development specifically, but he does offer very intelligent insight
on programming with an emphasis on the social aspect of it. He is also one
of the creators of the much anticipated StackOverflow
site. His blog posts are always insightful, easy to read, and funny.
Jeff is also a Twitter *fiend*. He tweets constantly throughout the day and
will respond to replies.
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Jeremy Miller
Jeremy is the creator of StructureMap,
an open source dependency injection framework. He's also an avid
blogger whose posts are almost always informative.
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Rick Strahl
Rick is a .NET developer whose blog
always seems to be filled with useful information for normal developers.
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Steve Harman
Like Rick Strahl, another .NET blogger who
I have followed for awhile.
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Kevin Pang
I couldn't resist. I don't work for Microsoft, I haven't authored
any books, and I don't have an amazing open source project to call my own.
But that doesn't mean I can't or won't. I have been known for
an occasional
flash of brilliance and people seem to enjoy what few things I have written.
If you follow me, I promise not to fill your twitter logs with
drivel, which is more than I can say for a lot of twitterers out there.
:-)
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