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Our Top Pick for Web Developer Resources

The Coach — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:00:45 +0000

In our day to day travels across the web, it is refreshing when we find a resource that overwhelms us with valuable, useful content. Hence the topic of today’s post on our top pick for online magazines, Smashing Magazine.

This is one of our favorite sites for many reasons. The quite often offer freebies in the form of icon sets, WordPress Themes, and so much more. There is so much valuable content on this blog style, online magazine, that a single blog post can’t possibly do them justice.

When you visit their site, start with the menu bar at the top of the home page and work your way through each item. We guarantee you will not get bored easily and the wealth of information you find will keep you coming back. One of our favorite areas in the Developers toolbox.

Leave us a comment and let us know what you think of their site.

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Digital Web Online Magazine

The Coach — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:00:13 +0000

The Digital Web Magazine is another great resource for web developers and designers. This is primarily because their content is updated frequently and relates to current issues and trends in the industry.

The main portion of the home page is dedicated to weekly updates, while the information on the right hand side relates to current events, updates and news which is, at times, updated daily. They also offer several methods to have a look back at the previous content, organized by author, date, topic, title or type.

This is a very easy to read site, and therefore extremely easy to navigate and find what you need. Their goal, as quoted from the About Us page states;

The idea is to encourage designers to be creative, developers to innovative, IAs to strategize, and overall be well versed in the web environment.

They certainly have kept to their promise and we feel this magazine is worth being added to a web developers arsenal of resources.

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SDTimes Online Development Magazine

The Coach — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:00:14 +0000

The online magazine SD (Software Development) Times is the flagship publication of BZ Media LLC from Huntington, New York with a subscription base of 60,000 in more than 130 countries. It was launched in February 2000, and has been followed by the launch of other BZ Media publications such as Software Test & Performance and Systems Management News.

This magazine is also available in a printed format as well as in a digital format, and is geared more at software development in general. But it still covers a lot of topics relating to online web development and comments on the latest news and events in such areas.

Another real asset that this online magazine has for developers in an online Job Board that seems to be very much up to date. Many of the job postings were for opportunities in the United States, but there were still plenty of postings in the UK and Europe, and we even noticed quite a few in Bangalore.

While one of the most Global speaking online magazines we have yet seen, it did fail in one small aspect of maintaining its global appeal. In the Events Calendar, there was an extensive list of upcoming events relating to the industry, unfortunately, all of the events we saw were in the US. Perhaps this is because there are so few events outside the US, but maybe this highlights an opportunity.

But this small item was not enough to deter us and we feel that SDTImes is well worth a regular visit to keep the most enterprising developer informed.

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Website Magazine Online

The Coach — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:00:27 +0000

This web magazine is available in both a print version and in a digital format. It is published monthly and requires a subscription. For those in the US and Canada, the print version is free, all others need to pay $49 or, choose the option to receive the digital version, which is also free. You may also choose to subscribe to their weekly, or daily updates via email.

The digital version of the monthly magazine is delivered in an eBook format, with the look and feel of reading a print magazine and is very easy to navigate. The site itself is chocked full of blog articles and forum posts to assist with the most difficult of tasks.

The team at Website Magazine has done a great job at managing that divide between the printed and digital world. We highly recommend this resource to all web developers.

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PHP, AJAX Online Magazines

The Coach — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:59:32 +0000

This is the first of a series of articles on online magazines. There are many resources out there for web developers, but we thought we would point you to some of the top content available.

The first magazine is actually a set of two online magazines; PHP Magazine for PHP developers and AJAX Magazine for AJAX developers. Both online magazines follow a similar blog style format and are kept current with the latest in tutorials and new releases for both forums. They both take advantage of their extensive network of sites to offer readers access to a wide variety of resources and other information that is very beneficial for developers.

Both magazines also provide access to an extensive forum for valuable interaction with other like minded developers. We liked the shop link provided by both site with relevant books from Amazon on related topics. But our favorite feature of both magazines was the mobile web page that both sites provided. The mobile PHP Magazine is here and the mobile AJAX Magazine is here.

We definately rrecommend both of these sites for developers who are interested.

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