blogging
I met Jon Udell this year at MIX. I was reading through his excellent blog to flesh out some of the topics we talked about, when I was struck by the powerful message of this particular entry: When people tell me they’re too busy to blog, I ask them
programming languages
I’ve been reluctant to respond to the Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me meme. I generally take Kathy Sierra’s advice when it comes to describing my background: How many talks do you see where the speaker has multiple bullet points and slides just on their background?
blogging
You might read a post on this blog and decide I’m full of crap. That’s fine. I often am full of crap. I encourage you to leave a comment explaining why you feel this way. And, while you’re at it, feel free to point out any errors
blogging
I’ve recently been approached by several different people to inquire about advertising on my blog. It doesn’t cost me anything to run this blog. I used to host it myself on my cable modem, and my employer, Vertigo Software, generously donated hosting when I outgrew the limited upstream
programming languages
Scott Hanselman was kind enough to sing the praises of my blog a few months ago, completely unprompted. I finally met Scott in person at TechEd this year, and I can assure you that if you suck, Scott will be the first person to tell you that you suck.* That’
blogging
James Bach responded to my recent post, Are You Following the Instructions on the Paint Can?, with Studying Jeff Atwood’s Paint Can. I didn’t realize how many assumptions I made in that post until I read Mr. Bach's pointed response. The most amusing assumption I made
writing
When I meet people that have something to say, and an interesting way of saying it, I encourage them to blog. But there’s one big hurdle many people simply never get past: the actual writing. I can respect that. Writing is hard. People spend their entire lives learning how
blogging
Jakob Neilsen may not be today’s hip and trendy Web 2.0 fixture, but he’s still dispensing solid advice. Check out his Top Ten Blog Design Mistakes: 1. No Author Biographies 2. No Author Photo 3. Nondescript Posting Titles 4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go 5.
software development
I picked up a copy of The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky. It’s essentially just a collection of Joel’s favorite blog entries from the last few years. But it’s Joel, so you know they’re going to be good ones. In the
blogging
Like Steve Broback, I spent many of my formative years in computing reading John Dvorak’s magazine column. I started enthusiastically reading John Dvorak’s columns back in 1984, at my first job selling IBM PCs and Mac 128k computers from a storefront in Seattle. I have always enjoyed his
blogging
I’ve avoided the incestuous nature of blogging about blogging until now, but the topic does come up occasionally. Not everyone is a believer in the utility of blogs; I was a skeptic only two years ago, and Michael Brundage went out of his way late last year to point
perl
Writing code all day sort of saps my will to come home and... write more code. With that in mind I set out to find existing blog software rather than rolling my own. Life’s just too short, and besides, never write what you can steal – right? I experimented with