I have been fairly inconsistent over the course of the last 10 years when comes to blogging. Sadly so. Only to my personal detriment. After all, blogging helps one in so many various capacities:
- Writing is good for the brain; it forces one to (hopefully) improve writing skills; think differently (somewhat needed for the transfer of a personal memory to the written version)
- Committing to the written word helps one remember things learned. This is not unlike repeating someone’s name three times when you first meet them (so you better remember their name)
- Blogging helps others who may a come across similar confusion and not need to traverse the same pitfalls as yo already did
- It’s a way to give back to the community at large (the sharing of knowledge)
- By some accounts, it helps a resume (or is it CV now?)
I have started three different blogs in as many places. I have used my own creation, BlogEngine.NET, Miniblog and DotNetNuke (is that still a thing? Yes, I had to find it to link to it. But it’s a bit different now). As I start this new attempt at regular blogging, I almost spun up my own again. As a developer, it seems like it’s sooo easy. But rarely are things easy. Or as easy as we think they are at first mention. Then Mads (the author of this engine and also the author of Blogengine.net and Miniblog mentioned earlier) released a .NET Core 2 version of Miniblog and I thought: Let’s just start blogging. There are so many other projects I want to do, why throw time at another blogging engine when there’s a perfectly good one already in the .NET space.
And so, here I am.
I am committing to keeping this one around for a much longer time. And committing to it much more often.
That’s it for this post. More to come.