Developer Zone (dzone.com) : It’s good stuff!

21 Mar 2007

Previously my developer-centric (aggregated) feed of choice came from javablogs.com.  However it’s signal to noise ratio has been on a downward spiral as of late.  It’s increasingly difficult to find any useful nuggets amongst all the foreign (and graphic/non ascii character posts) and the off-topic ‘this is what my life is like’ posts.  I want concise, to the point tech discussions and *java.blogs *isn’t cutting it (I’ve been reading it less frequently the past couple months, perhaps it’s gotten better?).

Enter the DZone. 

I’ve been a subscriber for since it’s inception and although it got off to a bit of a rocky start, I’m quite impressed with the quality of the feed now.  It’s doesn’t specifically target Java and perhaps it is a bit too focused on ‘framework X vs. framework Y’, but it does generally deliver interesting aggregated content.

Check it out.

According to my Google Reader trends, java.blogs still has far higher daily traffic.  ~156 items/day vs. ~29 items/day.  In fact, that’s even higher than the digg feed (~103 items/day). 

*UPDATE:  *As pointed out by Rick in the comments, DZone is a community, not unlike digg, where users submit links and are able to vote on submissions.  Higher votes translates to a front page spot.  Java blogs is a basic aggregator where it will implicitly pickup all posts from any feed you provide.  Thanks Rick and Tim for commenting.