I've gotten a couple of emails over the last few weeks from people
wanting to know if I was OK and that I am still around. Yes, I'm
still here :)
First, Happy BlogDay to me.... this is my 200th post :)
September has been a busy month for me. The start of the NFL
season means dedicating some time to managing several fantasy football
teams, which has been fun and fruitful so far.
I've also been
battling, off and on, bouts of vertigo for the last 2 weeks, and the
antivert makes me wanna sleep all the time, as well as leaves me
incapable of concentrating for any lengthy periods of time.
I have been home for only one or two weekends in the last few months.
Project FAZR takes up some time as well. You'll hear alot about
that in the coming months from the
FAZR website. We're about to
start actual coding on our first project, and its going to be a fun
exercise in working in a virtual development team.
Lastly, and most imporantly, the blogosphere is just completely
oversaturated with tech news right now. The fun stuff to talk
about is new .Net and Sql features, as well as what has come to light
from the PDC. But seriously, what can I say that you can't go
read already? I feel like blogging things that are of interest to
me would only be adding to the pollution of over-blogged and repetitive
information. If you don't subscribe to many blogs, this may not
be an issue for you. If you subscribe to over 300 (including
group blog feeds like asp.net, dnj, codebetter, pluralsight,
thoughtworks, etc) like I do, then having to wade through repetative
information becomes a real issue. I find that reading the
majority of blogs
lately is just wasting my time. We all know what is coming in VS
2005. We all know whats coming in Sql Server 2005. We all
know about LINQ. We all know about Vista. Just stop
already! I've had this discussion about blog pollution and
over-saturation with both
Brendan and
Sahil, and haven't come up with
anything good yet to get me back on track.
I think over all, there has been a decrease in CodeBetter blogging in
general over the last two months, and I think it can be partially
explained by the reasons I have just stated. We don't want to be
part of that over-saturation, mark all as read, unsuscribe issue that
boring, drab and repetative blogs lead to. We want to remain
dedicated to providing you with fresh content, and new ideas and
thoughts about both old and new concepts.
So what is left to discuss?
Jeremy has got me thinking about
blogging about design patterns. His posts are very informative if
you are not familiar with the patterns he has been discussing. As
many patterns there are, there's always room for blogging :)
Also, I've thought about going back to discussing beginner topics for
OOP and .Net, which I did earlier this year. With .Net 2.0 coming
out, I think another big push from VB6 and other language applications
will come after the first of the year (fiscal year for a lot of
companies) to move to managed code. We certainly don't want to
leave those people behind, and need to regurgitate some classic OOP and
.Net information for them.
It won't take long for me to get out of this lull. I'll be back
to blogging full time shortly, once my little "blog vacation" is
completely over. Also, I'll soon be getting some formal training
in 2005 products from Microsoft based on the RTM releases, and I'll
share some of the less dicussed information, but stuff that some people
out there will still be googling for. All the major stuff you
either already know about, or live in a bubble.