I learned about Rob Walling through his technical articles in asp.netPRO magazine. I saw on the site that he has a blog so I subscribed straight away. His blog reminds me of CodingHorror at times - he writes on technical and coding topics in his magazine articles but has articles about being a software developer and the work life that we live and deal with.
Just check out some of these titles:
One article in particular that I've printed out and read more than once happens to be #1 on this list - Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money. Awesome article and any manager who wants to know how good developers think should read this article and see how they score. If you're a developer then look for these characteristics in your next job. Apparently he was contacted by quite a few managers.
“After publishing Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money late last year, I received several requests for something that could provide more specific information than the 1-9 score on Rob's Criteria for Keeping Your Developers Happy. In other words, managers want to know which of the nine areas to focus on, and most who wrote suggested I create a survey they could give anonymously to their developers.”
Rob answered and gave them a 29-question survey that managers could give to their developers. If I was a manager this is what I would want to know so I could do my best in keeping my good developers around. As a developer, this is the survey I would take and see if it was time to look for something new. Nice work Rob!