Shorty Twitter Award Recommendations

For those of you who have not yet heard, the Shorty Awards are now open for nominations...

What is the Shorty Awards?

The best producers of short* content in 2008 *140 characters or less, on Twitter

The Shorty Awards honor the world's top Twitterers. You can nominate as many people for as many categories as you'd like until midnight December 31st.

How it works...

Here are some nominations that I recommend...

Categories

• Apps

  • Nominate Grader (Profile)
  • Nominate MrTweet (Profile)
  • Nominate TweetDeck (Profile)
  • Nominate TwitterFon (Profile)

• Finance

  • Nominate RSSDave (Profile)

• Programming

  • Nominate CoreyHaines (Profile)
  • Nominate CrazeeGeekChick (Profile)
  • Nominate Dmohl (Profile)
  • Nominate ElijahManor (Profile)
  • Nominate RickStrahl (Profile)
  • Nominate Shanselman (Profile)
  • Nominate SteveAndrews (Profile)
  • Nominate TheRealHoff (Profile)
  • Nominate Wbm (Profile)

• Startups

  • Nominate CaseyPicker (Profile)
  • Nominate Rootclip (Profile)

• Tech

  • Nominate TechCrunch (Profile)
  • Nominate Twitter_Tips (Profile)

Please leave a comment with your own recommendations...

... and again, if you've benefited from my blog or my tweets would you please consider nominating me for the #programming category in shorty twitter awards?

Thank you, and happy tweeting!

Customized .NET Coffee Cup

My wife and I went out on a much needed date after a dry spell of alone time. I thought either we could do the typical movie thing, or maybe we could do something more interactive in nature.

So, with the help of my tweeters we came up with the idea of Painting Pottery at All Fired Up in Nashville, TN.

Then comes the hard part what does a computer geek programmer paint on a piece of pottery? Ahh... well, computer geek terms of course!

Here are some pictures of the coffee mug that I painted. I plan to bring it to work and drink from it proudly :)

Although I am an avid coffee drinker... I think you can tell that I like to drink the .NET kool-aid too :)

The Next 20 People .NET Developers Should Follow on Twitter

My previous 20 People .NET Developers Should Follow on Twitter blog post seemed to have gained quite a bit of buzz around the Twitterverse. I initially had a hard time narrowing down my list to only 20 people, so I thought I would include the next 20 several people that I wanted to add, but didn't.

Note: My list of top 40 (last post and this one) aren't necessarily the most popular or famous twitter people around (although many of them are). Rather, they are top notch developers that I highly value their contribution and tweets and find them to be very beneficial in learning and my day to day work.

Here are the Top 21-40 .NET Developers You Should Follow on Twitter

Steve Andrews 386 Followers Jason Barile 82 Followers Jeff Blankenburg 520 Followers Marc Brooks 408 Followers Michael Feathers 698 Followers Justice Gray 322 Followers Steven Harman 677 Followers Evan Hoff 242 Followers Scott Koon 1,354 Followers Boyan Kostadinov 64 Followers

James Kovacs 222 Followers Dan Mohl 18 Followers Craig Murphy 398 Followers Chad Myers 431 Followers Ted Neward 516 Followers Tommy Norman 65 Followers Robert Pickering 53 Followers Matthew Podwysocki 413 Followers Alan Stevens 622 Followers Chris Woodruff 579 Followers

Ohh, and you are welcome to follow me as well on Twitter :)

20 People .NET Developers Should Follow on Twitter

I have been tweeting for quite some time now and I have found it to be a very interesting way to stay top of the technical pulse of .NET, jQuery, and numerous other technologies and tools.

For those of you developers that have recently started using Twitter, here is a brief list of 20 people that I think you would gain a lot of insight from by following.

Please understand that there are many others that I could list, but for brevity I chose only the top 20. The following individuals are in alphabetical order.

Please feel free to add a comment with your favorite top developer twitter individuals. I would love to follow them and I'm sure others would as well.

*Note: My interests mainly revolve around Microsoft ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET AJAX, other .NET Technologies, jQuery, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, XML, etc...

• Scott Allen
• Jeff Atwood
• Rich Campbell
• Dana Coffey
• Rob Conery
• Kevin Dente
• Scott Galloway
• Phil Haack
• Scott Hanselman
• *Corey Haines
• Michael Letterle
• Robert Martin
• Jeremy Miller
• Wallace McClure
• Roy Osherove
• Jeff Palermo
• John Resig
• Ben Scheirman
• Joe Stagner
• Rick Strahl