   How do you keep up-to-date?
  Hey,I was wondering what you guys'n'gals do to keep your programming, game and hardware knowledge up-to-date.I, for one, visit this site multiple times each day, have a look at SlashDot daily and check out GamaSutra on a daily basis as well.Magazine-wise I recently got a problem: C/C++ Users Journal is no longer being published. [sad]  For me, DDJ has far to many 'articles' of people 'discussing' their companies product; the ad-ooze seems to be dripping off of those, so I cancelled DDJ.So, what do you read daily, weekly or monthly, to keep up with current affairs?cu,CipherCraft   
  I visit GameDev.Net.   ;  I visit here too much for my own good (though it isn't my homepage... yet). I also have RSS feeds of cnet and slashdot, though I rarely read anything from them. I used to be on anandtech quite a bit while i was planning and finally built my own computer, but I haven't been there in a while.I'd say just hanging around here, occasionally venturing to the lounge keeps me fairly up to date. I can view the current political battles being waged, current hardware prices/specs, and get news on new innovations. Believe it or not the occasional useful thread pops up here...   ;  I code.   ;  gamedev.net, ##C++ and google   ;  Keep up-to-date?  I don't.  When a problem comes up that what I'm currently using can't solve, I go looking for what's out there.  Other than that, I have a peripheral awareness of what's going on from this forum and Google News (my homepage).On the other hand, computers are no longer something I drool over.  I've changed from computers to banjos (and, to a lesser extent, a few other instruments).  I keep up-to-date in those worlds by reading forums and drooling over banjos.So, really, I don't do anything to keep up-to-date, it just happens.  If it's your job, you'll keep up-to-date by meeting requirements.  If it's your hobby, you'll keep up-to-date by doing what hobbyists naturally do.;Quote:Original post by TheveninI visit GameDev.Net.Quote:Original post by SanderI code.for user in (Thevenin, Sander):  self.agree(user);  I often take time out to catch up on any conference material. GameFest/Meltdown/WinHEC/PDC for the Microsoft stuff (I also get various MVP-only stuff that helps) and more general conferences like SIGGRAPH and GDC for other stuff.Even just a case of flicking through the PDF/PPT slide-decks keeps me up to speed on roughly whats going on.I figure that a combination of targetted searches (e.g. specifically digging into MSDN) and general google-search can find most information when I need it..I'm looking at buying some general software engineering books to read over the summer. I dont tend to buy books specific to a particular API/version.Jack   ;  I read industry gossip sources since the fastest way to figure out what's going on in the games industry is to find out what's being complained about.   ;  Set up a portal for your home page, with all the portlets for tech news, world news, links, email inbox, weather, search and things like that?http://www.google.com/ig