On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 10:23:25 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 04:19:58 UTC, Mike Parker
wrote:
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 14:26:35 UTC, Chris wrote:
I really don't like blog posts that have overly broad titles
when the subject matter is technical. I think the title should
be as specific as possible so that I know if it's something I
care about. If I see a general title about game development
that refers to something that only touches a specific aspect
of it, one that I'm not interested in, I'll just feel like
I've wasted my time. Moreover, when I am doing a search for
something specific, the blog title is often all I pay
attention to as I can the search results. A more specific
title helps out a lot.
It depends on what the blogger in question wants. If s/he wants
to draw attention to D in general and give examples of how D is
useful to solve certain problems (e.g. with templates, mixins
etc), then the title should be more general. The next article
might be about processing big data in D - then it should have
"big data" in the title/tag/keywords and not just something
that refers to one specific aspect of big data handling. The
point is that if people see D being associated with various
aspects of programming (games, big data), it gets them
interested in D in general.
If, however, the blogger only wants to talk about D to people
who already use D, then s/he might as well be more specific.
I just published a follow up post, demonstrating how easy it is
to get swizzle assignment.
I also implemented feeds, which can be found here:
Atom: http://www.mmartins.me/feed.xml?atom
RSS: http://www.mmartins.me/feed.xml?rss
Posts are now also properly tagged with meta keywords.
Chris, I kept the title similar to suggest a follow up. I still
think you were right regarding the title policy, and next posts
will have a title more appealing to a broader audience.
Thanks for the feedback guys!
