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Blogging & Tech Stuff
By Robert | October 18, 2006
Apparently, the first rule about blogging is to write about blogging.
I don’t know how guys in my profession can just write informatively, pleasantly, or incessantly about web development, be it “web standards,” JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, the best implementation of X, or the most elegant way of doing Y even though I can ramble and complain at the office about all sorts of technical crud. What becomes apparent during these monolgues is that I’m not a CS guy, nor do I play one on TV.
I’m the type of developer that just builds stuff, and outside the practice of documenting one’s work I tend to drift over to the next project and rarely look back. I used to post stuff like personal news updates, a bad piece of poetry, or a restaurant review up on my website, but that was back in 1997. That part of my brain has decayed substantially, so I’m giving this another try. Maybe it’ll be better the second time around.
What is notably bothersome is that this stuff tends to get archived on search engines, where years down the road, I’ll run a query against myself, find this post, and say “now that was stupid,” which implies that I may have improved.
There are plenty of smarter guys out there building this web stuff and explaining it at the same time… and doing a good job at it. Go them.
In the meantime, I’m just gonna post some random junk here to see what evolves. Go me.
Topics: Software Development |