Google is a great search engine and it has helped me very often to find the information I needed at that very moment. But filtering all the results presented by Google can soon become a tedious task. Not always are the best results for what is wanted presented at the top of the search results. So I always try to find (and bookmark) pages that provide a good overview. And so recently I found two (well, one was presented at SlashDot :) )

The first one is a link to IBM’s DeveloperWorks that shows a ‘reading list’ for PHP developers. The title is a bit misleading because they provide links to common tools, articles, web-pages and yes, even books. I wish they had created this page a month ago. It would have saved a lot of searching.

The second link surprised me a bit. But is really a Microsoft owned page linking to a lot of tools that can be used for .NET development. And the part that surprised me is that they also link to 3rd party tools and even Open Source projects. Do I hear the sound of an air born pig in the distance?