How to share recommended readings between fellow programmers

Question

I am working with team of 7 programmers and keep searching good articles on software design and best practices. whenever I come across a good article I mail them.

So I just want to know: Is there any better way to share recommended readings with fellow programmers?

It would be great if it can be searched later for future references.

Answer 1

We share it via an internal wiki.

Answer 2

there are scads of ways to do this. Here are just a couple....

1. Twitter
2. Mailing list
3. Website
4. Bulletin board (old-school or electronic)
5. Sharepoint website
6. old-school list on paper
7. Facebook
8. News Group
9. RSS Feed

Answer 3

If it is just links that you're trying to share, you could use a google document to store the links, and then simply give viewing access to each person who needs it.

You could try dropbox - I use it to sync all manner of reference documents between fellow developers. The interface on dropbox.com allows you to search those documents, and I believe it searches their contents as well (as opposed to just their filenames).

If it is feasable, you could also use a distributed version control system to do the same thing.

Best of luck.

Answer 4

foreach friend in (friends & developers)
do
  write link on post-it
  duct tape to rock
  throw rock at friend
done

Best way I know.

Answer 5

Twitter to share I use twitter a lot for sharing it has as an extra bonus that if people find your links interesting they will follow and you will share with more people and you could get valuable insights or additions from your new followers.

Twitter isn't that good for your searchable criteria, ther are ways but I don't find any of the good enough (although sometimes tweets show up at google :) )

StartAid to store and search I would suggest you see storing and searching as a different thing. share through twitter and keep and search in another app (you probably don't want to search which links you sent to whom, but you probably just want to search the links you thought to be interesting) For keeping and searching I use a firefox add-in StartAid. It has as a bonus that it synchronizes the links between any machine you use StartAid on. StartAid also can share links but I haven't used it yet.

Answer 6

del.icio.us is excellent for sharing recommendations. It is a social bookmarking service. When you find an article you like, you bookmark it and tag it with appropriate keywords. Then your colleagues can check you profile and see what you have bookmarked. You can also follow the tags to find other resources about the same subjects.

You will also discover other users that share your interests, and they will often link to new and interesting material on the same subjects.

Answer 7

Sharing links is okay, but many people are suffering from information overload. One more thing to keep track of may be one thing too many. Consider starting a once-a-month-geek-out meeting. Get together at a coffee shop or pub (despite popular belief, booze and code are great together). At each meeting, have one or two people present a focused topic - Clojure, the cloud, ergonomics, game theory, hydraulics... you get the idea. Set aside a little free form discussion time as well.

When we receive information face-to-face in a meaningful context, we're much more likely to retain and appreciate it. The problem with making reference sharing too easy is that we're likely to share things that aren't ultimately significant. The burden is put on the information consumer versus the information sharer. An informal but directed meeting makes us filter through everything we've read in the last month and present an analysis versus presenting raw information.

As an added benefit, coffee shops and pubs are great places to meet dates for the weekend. Don't wear your "Pwned by Gandalf" t-shirt.

Answer 8

del.ici.ous is the best one out there you can also try goodreads

A wiki similar to del.ici.ous will be very useful if created here as stackexchange is flourished with some very good programmers