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Become a Better Web Developer Using RSS

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Becoming a better web developer each and every day is something that I constantly strive for.  I hate the thought of the extremely talented web developers out there that don’t keep learning as they work.  On the other hand, as all busy developers know; you just don’t have time to learn new things.  You have a project to work on that has to meet tight deadlines, so why would you invest many hours doing it a new way when you could use your existing knowledge.

Well, I believe that I have finally found the best way to learn constantly but as well not spend hours searching for some good content.  I’m sure some of you used to go between a couple of your favourite sites and checked if they had any new content.  Well this is a pain in the fact that you have to type in the url of each site you wish to go to, and there is no guarantee it will be worth it.

As many of you know RSS Feeds solve this problem.  You can add a live bookmark to Firefox that you can now click on to view all the posts, without going to their homepage.  This is still a slight pain as you don’t know if a live bookmark has new content yet.  There are many RSS Readers out there that make this process simpler, but the one I currently use is a Firefox plug-in called “Sage”.

Sage is a little sidebar that you can add RSS feeds to and when you click refresh, it will go to each feed and check for new content.  Then it will bold a particular feed, which you can click on to view its items.  It even goes as far as showing you which items you have viewed and gives you a preview in the Firefox browser as to what that item contains.

Below I will leave you with some of my favourite web developer feeds.  Please share yours in the comments.

Dzone – fresh links for developers
Nettuts – Web Development & Design Tutorials
Smashing Magazine – we smash you with the information that will make your life easier. really.
WebAppers – Hunting the Best Open Source Resources for Web Developers
Ajaxian – Cleaning up the web with Ajax
WebResourcesDepot – Free Web Resources Everyday
Six Revisions - Web Development and Design Information
CSS Globe – Web Standards Magazine
CSS Tricks – Tips, Tricks, and Techniques on using Cascading Style Sheets.
Help Developer – Graphic and Web Design Blog with Collections, Freebies, Tutorials and Forums
The Daily App – One a day. Every day.
Script & Style – Grow as a designer and developer.

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