New Year's Resolutions 2010

Last year I succeeded at 50% of my resolutions. I successfully uploaded all my old photos to flickr, but I wasn’t able to entirely give up soda at my desk. It went great for about six months, and then we had a big deadline, and I started up again. I felt pretty good about lasting six months, though.

This year, I have only one resolution: I signed up for Project 52 over on spaceninja.com. The idea is to post fresh content at least once a week, all year long. I’m aiming to make the content worthwhile, with no fluff. I want to write a lot of good content about web development, to start advancing my ultimate goal of becoming a name in the industry.

The flip side of that resolution is to post more worthwhile stuff over here. I’ve been reading through my archives, and I used to write a lot more. In the last few years, however, I basically only write about Zoe and my work. I miss that “here’s what’s happening with me right now” kinda vibe that blogging used to have. Since I’ve split my professional life into its own blog, there’s no reason to hold back anymore, so I’m going to try to be more personal on here again.

Ten Years of Blogging

Ten years ago today, I started blogging. Since that time, this blog has moved through four domains and changed from being hand-rolled to using WordPress. When I started, I thought that blogging was somewhat voyeuristic and I felt like I needed to justify why I was posting my journal online. Now, blogging is so well-established that it’s actually part of my job description. In my spare time, I help maintain over 15 blogs for friends and family. It’s changed from being something that felt I somewhat exhibitionist about to being something that I put on my resume. When I wrote that first post, I had no idea that was I starting to take part in something that would have such a large impact on my life, but I’m glad I did.

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Delicious Links

Well, it looks like the script I use to post my delicious bookmarks here every week has broken. I’m working on fixing it, but this happens to coincide with me wondering lately if it makes sense to keep posting my links into my blog.

At first, the goal was that everything I did online was found here. But with the rise of Flickr and Twitter, that’s become impractical. As a result, I’ve been toying with the idea of killing the automatic link posting, and instead pointing the “links” link up in the header to my Delicous Account.

So, what do you think? Do you prefer a blog that includes everything a person does online, so you only have to look in one place, or do you prefer when things are kept separate so you can just subscribe to the bits you’re interested in?

Please leave a comment with your thoughts.

Rove on Blogging

“The Web has given angry and vitriolic people more of a voice in public discourse. People in the past who have been on the nutty fringe of political life, who were more or less voiceless, have now been given an inexpensive and easily accessible soapbox, a blog.”
– Former Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who seems to think this is a bad thing.

Skinning Community Server 2007

We recently upgraded the Pop Art Blog to Community Server 2007, and I was assigned to upgrade the templates. Dave produced a wonderful comp, and when I read about CS2007′s new Chameleon Theme Engine, I was pretty excited. The actual experience of working with the templates turned into a bit of a nightmare, however.

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