actually sometimes i catch myself falling into the conceit trap mr. andico describes, but for the most part i blog stuff about my geek projects at work so i can remember 2 weeks or 2 months from now what the hell i did to finally nail that pesky bug and make the damn thing work. formal documentation sounds good in a perfect world -- you gots your javadocs for java and you gots doxygen for C/C++ and whatnot -- but when you're dealing with unfamiliar libraries for VoIP or SNMP or SOAP or whatever, all you think about is making the thing work by the time your boss asks you about it at the next general meeting one week from yesterday.
now, for me, taking a break after i've made some weird stuff work and then blogging about it helps me both relax, and remember whatever it is i just did. plus, i'm not obligated to make my documentation any more detailed than i want it to be; most of the time, i only write enough detail so that when i read it later, i'm able to remember the rest of it, while to some other guy reading it, it could be gibberish or non-technical enough for him or her. as for making it available on the web, sure it really is the "homepage" of the 21st century", but at least i can access my blog from anywhere and i can read stuff about my projects, regardless of whether or not i've changed employers since i last posted about my project. the only drawback of blogging for me though, is that its too easy to post gripes about this guy or that boss, especially when you're fixing something the other guy messed up. just my long-winded 2-cents. ;-) Levi --- Jared Odulio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, you're entitled to your opinion. For me, > blogging is an exercise > to see if I am still in touch with my natural > language after spending > hours and days tapping away those cryptic codes in > our "language" of > choice. > > On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 23:01, Orlando Andico wrote: > > is it just me who doesn't get blogs? > > > > i don't have a blog because i view it as quite a > conceit. the few blogs > > i've perused (aside from Joel Spolsky's excellent > Joel on Software) seem > > to me to be just exercises in self-gratification. > > > > it's the personal home page of the 21st century, > carried to an intolerable > > degree. some people actually have fun knowing that > they can update their > > blogs from a mobile device. my 2c, it's quite a > narcissistic exercise (for > > the vast majority of bloggers, of which the rest > of the internet cares not > > a whit). > > > > > > --- > > Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Mosaic Communications, Inc. > > > > -- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
