Development Blogs - What when and where?

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While Thrik is 100% right about popularity of blogs being strongly related to community participation and 'celebrity' factory, you should bear in mind that blogging isn't all about popularity! For me, blogging has been a very effective tool for rationalising and better understanding the subject matter of each post. In particular, it's often the case that we just 'know' why something works or does not work. When you write a blog post about the topic, you must understand the topic before you can explain it to someone else. On quite a few occasions, I've had "aha!" moments while typing a post . My job up til now has involved convincing software engineers to change the way they write their code, so being able to put forward a convincing argument was extremely important to me, and blogging definitely made a difference. I would thoroughly recommend blogging as a way to better understand your chosen field.

out of curiousity, which code changes are we speaking here? anything you could disclose?

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out of curiousity, which code changes are we speaking here? anything you could disclose?

I guess you have never read his blog before because he talks about what he does all the time which would give you insight into what he is talking about.

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out of curiousity, which code changes are we speaking here? anything you could disclose?

As Wacko said, I have quite a few posts on testability + automated testing on my blog. A great distillation of testability concerns can be found on Misko Hevery's website. He's the man when it comes to test driven development + automated testing. Google test blog is another good one.

I don't really use my blog in the typical sense of writing for an audience. I use it more for a record of what I've done since I started it. It's always cool to look back and see what you've made and how certain projects have evolved.

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I don't really use my blog in the typical sense of writing for an audience. I use it more for a record of what I've done since I started it. It's always cool to look back and see what you've made and how certain projects have evolved.

Same here!

It's pretty much my personal place, where I post the stuff I worked on my free time.

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Same here!

It's pretty much my personal place, where I post the stuff I worked on my free time.

it isn't as much a blog as it is a portfolio then? i honestly think i'm too lazy to have a blog. or don't care enough. or both. i much prefer writing a document to larger projects documenting reflections, analysis, thoughts etc.

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Same here!

It's pretty much my personal place, where I post the stuff I worked on my free time.

it isn't as much a blog as it is a portfolio then? i honestly think i'm too lazy to have a blog. or don't care enough. or both. i much prefer writing a document to larger projects documenting reflections, analysis, thoughts etc.

Yeah maybe a mix of portfolio/blog.

I rarely write in there tho, just brief comments to explain what are those pics I'm posting. I might explain a little bit the workflow, but then again, very briefly.

It's also good because, if you have something to say to the world, you can also post personal stuff there, better than using twitter or facebook i guess.