Blogging a year later and 18 months ago.
Well, it's been a year since I set up this blog. I have posted 6 entries, including the original test entry, four of which were in the last month. So I'm starting to use this more. I even have an entry about my new favorite game, "Rocketmen" in draft-mode now.
I've been thinking of this as a way to keep track of my frame of mind at a given point, so when I found an old set of "notes to self" from a year and a half ago about my transition from Java to Ruby I found myself wishing I had been blogging back then. I have a dated list of journal entries in a text file chronicling my frame of mind from before the 2004 Ruby Conference until a week or two after it. It's really interesting for me to read it and just see how much my impressions of things have changed since then.
So I started thinking about starting a new blog, just for code or other technology-related stuff. It'd be great 'cause I could jumpstart it with these old journal entries, but I needed a way to backdate my posts so everything made more sense. Problem was I couldn't figure out how to backdate posts on Blogger.com. I did some googling and everyone said you could do it, but I couldn't see how. Then I found an entry in the Blogger.com knowledge base. My screen did not look like that screenshot. Oops, I was using Safari. So I opened it up in Firefox, and voila, backdate controls plain as day. And a lot of other nice controls I didn't have before. I really should switch to Firefox shouldn't I?
So, now that I have that little thing figured out, I'm launching my new technical blog called: Words 4 Nerds
I know, it's cheezy, but I'm not nearly as clever as my buddy Rich and I'm tired of trying to think of something better. That blog will start about 18 months ago and I'll attempt to fill in the blanks since then with my views of Java, Ruby, Actionscript, Hibernate, Tapestry, Ruby on Rails and whatever else I know a little bit about.
I'll post the new address here once it's up, so look for that tonight or tomorrow. Don't fret though, I'll still be blogging on all matter of other things here. (Who am I kidding? I'm the only one who reads this!!!)
I've been thinking of this as a way to keep track of my frame of mind at a given point, so when I found an old set of "notes to self" from a year and a half ago about my transition from Java to Ruby I found myself wishing I had been blogging back then. I have a dated list of journal entries in a text file chronicling my frame of mind from before the 2004 Ruby Conference until a week or two after it. It's really interesting for me to read it and just see how much my impressions of things have changed since then.
So I started thinking about starting a new blog, just for code or other technology-related stuff. It'd be great 'cause I could jumpstart it with these old journal entries, but I needed a way to backdate my posts so everything made more sense. Problem was I couldn't figure out how to backdate posts on Blogger.com. I did some googling and everyone said you could do it, but I couldn't see how. Then I found an entry in the Blogger.com knowledge base. My screen did not look like that screenshot. Oops, I was using Safari. So I opened it up in Firefox, and voila, backdate controls plain as day. And a lot of other nice controls I didn't have before. I really should switch to Firefox shouldn't I?
So, now that I have that little thing figured out, I'm launching my new technical blog called: Words 4 Nerds
I know, it's cheezy, but I'm not nearly as clever as my buddy Rich and I'm tired of trying to think of something better. That blog will start about 18 months ago and I'll attempt to fill in the blanks since then with my views of Java, Ruby, Actionscript, Hibernate, Tapestry, Ruby on Rails and whatever else I know a little bit about.
I'll post the new address here once it's up, so look for that tonight or tomorrow. Don't fret though, I'll still be blogging on all matter of other things here. (Who am I kidding? I'm the only one who reads this!!!)
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