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This is really a question for developers, but how do you prefer to keep up to date with what's going on in the world of software? Magazines? Websites? Books?
It seems like there's so many sources of information out there one could spend all day every day just reading about new technologies and ideologies and never actually do any work.
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Who the heck reads magazines any more?
"Hello" readers excepted...
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Sheep digest Weekly" readers excepted...
FTFY as I can only assume there is not WIFI out in them there hills. 
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Simon_Whale wrote: "Sheep digest Weekly"
Is that about the sheep digestion system or about people digesting sheep[^]? 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Who the heck reads magazines any more?
I still find paper/print media easier to read than off screens..
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But...it's so bulky, and heavy, and you can't take it all with you! So half the time when you need it, or you have a chance to read it you haven't got it there.
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Yeah! And try to find something you read a few months ago without a Search button!
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Me personally I read a few tech blogs also I look at the insider news here on Code Project as that a bit more wide spread that the tech / software that I currently use both inside and outside of work
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Have you got any recommendations for blogs you read?
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Jammo sorry for taking so long to reply.
These are the blogs that I regularly read.
c# blogs
eric lippert[^] - this one makes you think more than show off some new techniques.
sacha barber[^] - he shows off some good demo's and also does a good write up
Angular
dave kerr[^] - lots of good angular demos and write ups
ng newsletter[^] - collection of many blogs and how tos
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Colleagues usually, and when i encounter a problem during programming i often get side tracked to new frameworks and such .
So i guess internet is my major source.
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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Why, I use CP - ask and Bob shall provide.
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The Internet, I would say. This[^] is one of the first things I read in the morning. 
I ain't got no signature.
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I let Kent Sharkey do it for me here on CodeProject ... actually I do subscribe to a few e-mail newsletters in addition to CodeProject newsletters, including: The Register, ReadWrite Web, Robert X Cringely, ExtremeTech, Scott Hanselman, JetBrains, How-To-Geek, and some of the Stack Exchange newsletters, like the Programmers' Weekly.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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I read the CodeProject newsletter each morning... Well, read is a big word, scan is more like it 
And I read blogs and articles I come across on CP and Twitter.
Don't try to keep 'too up' with technology though, because, as you say, it's a day job!
I keep up with what I need to know, and even there I'm lagging behind sometimes.
And I check out some new stuff from time to time. For example, Node.js is pretty popular so I'm checking that out for fun even if I don't need it.
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Wastedtalent wrote: but how do you prefer to keep up to date with what's going on in the world of software?
The vast majority of what's out there is irrelevant to me, and even if it were, it's usually some half-baked here today, gone tomorrow flash in the pan that the media gloms into for a picosecond of fame.
The only time I care is when someone I respect shares something useful, the most recent being Git Extras[^]
Marc
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My secretary prepares a set of punch cards for me every Christmas whether there's any significant news or not!
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Rules were broken when (s)he was shipwrecked with titanium duck poles (10)
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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titanium duck poles - I now have an image stuck in my head, call it a head-worm, of 100 ducks sitting on top of 100 shiny metal poles.
What can I do to get rid of them?
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Display Name Taken wrote: What can I do to get rid of them?
Worry about getting an alternate display name.
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"Violations"? 
At least the "tions" part must be correct. 
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Correct, why the first bit?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I am not sure, but Google yields this[^] where it says - "Viola (who is disguised as a boy) falls in love with Duke Orsino." So maybe that's the reference in the clue?
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Yes, from Twelfth Night, Viola was shipwrecked and took the identity of a boy.
It's the only Shakespeare I read at school, although I prefer the film version She's The Man.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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My favourite Shakespeare is his political plays like "Love, Labour's Lost!"
veni bibi saltavi
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