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Podcasts are great. I currently keep about 5-8 subscriptions at any given time on my iPod. I’m a big fan of web development podcasts as I love to hear how others are doing day to day tasks like I do.

In no particular order here are some of my favorite web development podcasts:

Railscasts | http://www.railscasts.com
This is a video podcast, if you don’t have a video ipod you can watch it online at http://www.railscasts.com/ (or in iTunes itself)
Coolness factor: I’d easily give this one a 10/10. It’s updated 2-3 times a week with short (10 min or less) video lessons that cover various aspects of Rails development

Tech Note: iTunes occasionally tells me that it can’t copy some of the earlier episodes to my iPod, i think this is an encoding issue.

The Official Ruby on Rails Podcast | http://podcast.rubyonrails.org/

The official Ruby on Rails podcast from Geoffrey Grosenbach of the Topfunky Corporation. Audio Podcast

Coolness factor: 8/10. Updated fairly often, the topics cover more theory and industry related Rails themes, but still great nonetheless. Interviews with top Rails developers often inspire some inspiration in my personal work (+2 to the rating for Geoff’s super smooth DJ voice)

sd.rb Podcast | http://podcast.sdruby.com/

The San Diego Ruby Users Group puts out this podcast of their groups presenters. Wide variety of topics. The presenters typically walk you through their code and how/why they are doing things. Some are more theory/methodology based, some are more technical solutions based

Coolness factor: 6/10 Updated often, range of topics, sometimes the audio levels are fairly low and you really have to crank the volume to hear it.

TweakCast! | http://www.tweakcast.com/

Josh Iwata’s TweakCast is for the Creative Entrepreneur. He focuses on how to run your own full time/freelance business. Good ideas and insights from someone actually doing this full time. Not a huge emphasis on development, focuses more on process.

Coolness factor: 7/10 Josh is a perfect podcaster, he’s always prepared, very meticulous and is never flying blind. He has some great information and is always willing to take comments and suggestions from the user base.

That was only 4, but we’re going to count the next one even though it isn’t a podcast and it’s not free…

Honorable Mention:

Peepcode | http://www.peepcode.com

Also run by Geoffrey Grosenbach of the Topfunky Corporation. Peepcode episodes are screencasts that are $9.00 each. Trust me, they are worth about $200.00 each from the knowledge that is shared. This is very similar to the railscasts.com podcast, but Geoff goes in to alot more detail with most episodes running around an hour.

Well that’s my list, what’s yours? Feel free to suggest in the comments.

Thanks!