Developers I follow and so should you

I have recently added a few bloggers/developers to my “Fellow Bloggers” section.  Just so everyone knows I do read all these blogs and I do not blindly add people to this list.  I’ve decided to let everyone know why I follow them and why you should too!

Jonathan Snook
Jonathan Snook is an author/co-author/blogging machine.  He focuses in front end development (XHTML/CSS/Javascript), but also has a lot of love for PHP Cake, I’m not a huge fan of Cake….but that’s a whole other issue.  Jonathan constantly updates his blog and interacts with all his visitors/commentors.  Also, be sure to check out his “Delicious-ly Linked” section for new articles that he has read and deemed good enough to share.

Chris Cornutt
Chris is the guy behind such sites as phpdeveloper.org and joind.in.  He is also a fellow member of Dallas PHP.  He has been around the community for some time now, and was also on the php advent calendar this year.  He will be speaking at PHP|Tek this year….dicussing everyones favorite topic of “PHP Frameworks”.  If you haven’t already started reading his latest series, Working Towards Better Deployment, then you’re missing out my friend.

Cal Evans
If his witty blog posts weren’t enough to attract you then maybe taking a read on some of his books will.  I started following Cal after I read his book, Guide to Programming with Zend Framework.  The reviewers of the book failed to realize a few things.  This book is for experienced php developers who understand MVC Frameworks and it’s a introduction to the framework, I’m sorry it isn’t the Zend Framework Bible reference guide you were hoping for.  At the time I believe it was the only Zend Framework book, but don’t quote me on that.

Sean Coates
I just recently started following Sean.  I don’t know if anyone else constantly reads Smashing Magazine like I do, but their PHP articles have been extremely lacking in value.  One particular article was so poorly received that Chris Shiflet and Sean Coates “Revisited” the article.  You can always expect PHP to be talked about, and recently some Adobe AIR discussion.  If you’re real lucky he may drop some tips on Brewing your own beer!
Well guys I hope this clarifies why I added these developers/bloggers to my “Fellow Bloggers” list and I hope you too will follow and heckle them on their blogs.

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