You can see other peoples blogs im interested in on my google reader shared items (a selection are presented here) :
Michel Wermelinger – Interested in code evolution.
Ruby on rails demo This ROCKS!
Check out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-should-read for a great list.
Refactoring : Improving the design of existing code (Martin Fowler)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-Technology/dp/0201485672/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258121999&sr=1-1
Clean Code (Bob Martin – “Uncle Bob”)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0132350882/ref=nosim/coffeeuk100236-21
Effective Java (Joshua Block)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Effective-Java-Second-Joshua-Bloch/dp/0321356683/ref=pd_sim_b_7
Emergent Design (Scott Bain)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emergent-Design-Evolutionary-Professional-Development/dp/0321509366/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242382500&sr=1-1
Test Driven Development (Kent Beck)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Test-Driven-Development-Addison-Wesley-Signature/dp/0321146530/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242382559&sr=1-1
Domain Driven Design (Eric Evans)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Domain-driven-Design-Tackling-Complexity-Software/dp/0321125215/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c
Patterns of Enterprise Architecture (Martin Fowler)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Enterprise-Application-Architecture-Addison-Wesley-signature/dp/0321127420/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
Design Patterns (Gang Of Four)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Design-patterns-elements-reusable-object-oriented/dp/0201633612/ref=pd_sim_b_5
Clean Code – Bob Martin
OO – Thanks Felix!
S.O.L.I.D. OO principles.
Jim Webber, Savas and Ian Robinson on ow to GET a cup of coffe excellent REST intro.
The old Post Redirect Get Pattern
Terence Parr on Model View Seperation
Martin Fowler and Dan North on the Yawning Crevasse Of Doom
Ed Kirwan Some interesting papers about analyzing code complexity.
Domain Driven Design the book.
leaky abstractions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction
convention vs configuration :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction
http://www.memestorm.com/blog/spring-binding-and-validation-introduction/
CSS Stuff:
some QA TOOLS: