People it is worth following

Among software development there are a lot of resources, a lot of people worth of looking at it, but to find out who is good enough to follow may take some time. That's why's I'm summarizing the people I enjoy reading/listening to in any topic related to software engineering and development in general.

Robert C. Martin
The 'Master Craftsman', I've read some of his books and are pure gold, his experience and knowledge are outstanding, and you can still see him coding!

• Old blog http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob (it has some very interesting posts)
• New blog http://blog.objectmentor.com
• Clean coders http://www.cleancoders.com/, a bunch of great software development resources

Joel Spolsky
One of the heads behind StackOverflow, a hardcore developer that has been doing really cool things for more than a decade. His blog posts are extremely interesting and very, but very useful.

• Blog http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
• Hg init tutorial http://hginit.com/
• The Joel test 
• StackExchange http://www.stackexchange.com/ 

Jeff Atwood
Another of the heads behind StackOverflow, a very skillfull developer that has been delivering lots of tips, principles and advices for years.

• Coding horror http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
• StackOverflow podcast http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/

Miguel de Icaza
He is the mind behind the initial Gnome project, started with Mono and now it's driving his own company called Xamarin. He might be controversial at times, but for sure it is worthy to follow him.

• Blog http://tirania.org/blog
• Xamarin http://xamarin.com/
• Mono http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

Scott Hanselman
One of the most productive developers I've seen, he's a .Net evangelist with years of expertise. His projects and blog are just amazing. Besides that he's a podcaster with various memorable recordings.

• Blog http://www.hanselman.com/blog/
• Hanselminutes http://www.thisdeveloperslife.com/
• This developer's life http://hanselminutes.com/

Podcasts I enjoy listening

Precedents
While going to work or when I'm walking from work to the university, I tend to get bored. A year ago I got an iPod due to some obscure business, but that's not the point of this story, and I got reallz interested in its Podcast feature.

Although it's just a radio program meant to be played in a mobile device, it is an amazing source of entertainment and information. I started listening podcasts about technology and engineering because of my English-level. But after some weeks of practice I started listening to some programs that I considered "advanced".

In summary, here they are:

• FLOSS weekly, an amazing show about open source projects. Randal Schwartz and his friends fill my Wednesdays with lots of information (you can check an outdated list of my favorites episodes in Floss weekly favourite episodes).
• Software engineering radio, great program about software engineering and technology.
• This Developer's Life, a very well produced show with very interesting topics, although in the last months there haven't been so many episodes, the existing ones are great.
• This American Life, who is not listening to this show around the world right now?.
• SModcast network, I'm a huge fan of Kevin Smith's work and his network of podcasts is just astonishing.
• Smodcast, Kevin and Scott Mosier.
• Hollywood Babble-on, Kevin and Ralph Garman.
• Jay and Silent Bob get old, Kevin and Jason Mewes.

FLOSS Weekly favourite episodes

Since last year I am loyal listener of FLOSS Weekly podcasts, Randall Schwartz and his guests give us hours and hours of very useful information in an interesting way.

As I am a software developer, I rather prefer some episodes related to certain issues, like frameworks and development tools and not so much with hardware-related issues.

So, based on that, this is my selection of must listen episodes of this great show (* recommended):

• Episode 3: Mozilla Firefox with Ben Goodger
• Episode 5: GNOME, Mono with Miguel de Icaza *
• Episode 9: Perl with  Randal Schwartz *
• Episode 11: Python with Guido van Rossum
• Episode 26: SQLite with D. Richard Hipp *
• Episode 34: Django with Jacob Kaplan-Moss
• Episode 49: XMPP with Peter Saint-Andre
• Episode 55: JQuery with John Resig
• Episode 58: ZFS with Aaron Newcomb, David Brittlel
• Episode 73: O'Reilly Media with Tim O'Reilly *
• Episode 79: Ruby on Rails with David Heinemeier Hansson *
• Episode 87: Extreme Programming with Kent Beck *
• Episode 88: Linux with Linus Torvalds *
• Episode 122: Mercurial with Matt Mackall