I am writing this article as a sequel to the Measuring Programming Progress By Lines Of Code article. As I already stated there, software Managers want to have some metric to estimate their workers. They are always seeking for a a precise and measurable way to know the programming progress and the developers productivity and performance. If you read the previous article, you know that I don’t think that counting the lines of the program source code is an efficient metric at all. Let me please talk about another common metric - measuring the amount of extra hours a software developer has done.

In this post I do not intend to make a list of the best programmers web sites, but to share with you some you might not know:

CodeFetch - Search for source code in programming books. Their mission is to connect programmers with authors and is uses and support open source. If we are talking about code search I am sure you are familiar with Koders - top search engine for code.

FreeTechBooks - Free Online Computer Science and Programming Books, Textbooks, and Lecture Notes.

QuickRef - interactive programming documentation, allows you to keep many docs and remember them.