Turnleaf Design Ramblings of a junior developer

Resources

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ - An excellent with a focus on front end web development. Frequently updated with very well written articles.

http://www.alistapart.com/ - Another excellent website focusing on web development. However there is more of an emphasis of best practices, growing trends, and new ideas, instead of just the latest technologies.

http://www.javamex.com/ - A java site that does a really good job of getting down into the nuts a bolts of how Java works.

http://www.sixrevisions.com/ - A very active website that focuses on web design.

http://www.net.tutsplus.com/ - Has excellent tutorials on web design and development

http://java.sun.com/blueprints/corej2eepatterns/Patterns/index.html – An absolute must check out for all Java developers. Focuses on best practices for Java developers. Though I wouldn't recommend it for the very new as the concepts may be a bit advanced.

http://www.ohloh.net/ - A very good place to start if you are looking to contribute to an open source project.

http://www.coderanch.com/forums - A very friendly place with an active community dedicated to helping developers

http://www.webappers.com/ - Regularly updated with predominately open source software to help you do your job

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/ - Name says it all. A site that is dedicated towards web design.

http://www.javaworld.com/ - An excellent Java resource

http://onjava.com/ - A blog covering java (obviously) supported by O'Reilly Media

http://martinfowler.com/ - The website for one of the most respected voices in OO-development

http://sourcemaking.com/ - Co-authored by Martin Fowler, a bunch of useful information and best practices on this site.

http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/design-patterns -A wealth of information covering many different areas of programming. Definitely something here for everybody.

http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/ - A well established blog with hundreds of articles covering mostly Java.

http://www.codeigniter.com – An excellent and lightweight framework for developing PHP applications

http://sites.google.com/site/yacoset/ - I may not agree with everything the author says and frankly he probably doesn't care. But there is plenty of good information on his site none the less.

http://solitarygeek.com/ - If you like my site then you will probably love this one. Similar in writing style and purpose, just a more mature blog written by a more experienced developer.

http://www.developerart.com – A new blog like my own. While not a whole lot yet, the content that is on his site is of high quality.