You can order chicken feet from a large number of authentic Chinese restaurants. Only they're not called chicken feet. The dish, in Chinese, is called Phoenix Feet. It's such a ridiculous exaggeration, but it sure makes them sound more exciting, right?
It's been a while since my last attempt, but I'm now working in New York City for a company in the financial services industry. Last week, I was one of a few developers from my company selected to attend a 3-day Wintellect conference in midtown called Devscovery that started today. The keynote speaker was Scott Hanselman, who gave a talk called "How Social Networks Can Make You a Better Developer." I'm not sure he stayed on topic very well (as he barely touched on social networks at all), but it was a great talk. His real focus seemed to be that every professional developer should have a blog.
It makes sense careerwise. It'd be great to go to job interviews and be able to say "You can check out some of the more interesting tech problems I've handled by going to http://hitsthings.blogspot.com." Or to make connections to people in the industry through your blog posts. Or just have a record of things you've done to look back over 5 years down the road.
So I'm going to give that a try. My hope is that this blog will become a great contribution to society and to myself and I'll do my best to make sure it is. But at worst, this blog will be a record of interesting tech issues I encounter.
For certain, this blog is rising from the ashes of last year. Whether it's a phoenix or just a chicken will soon be seen, but it'll be exciting for me either way.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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