Learning Takes Time
It was only today as I was looking over my site that I realised it was nearly 30 days since I last updated my blog.
I was amazed how quickly the time has passed and how blogging really takes time.
If you are looking for bloggers who really deserve credit then looking over the Blog Awards nominees
and voting for your favourites is well worth the time.
Richard Hearne (RedCardinal) has kindly offered a free SEO consultation for all of the nominees, which if even some of the participants avail of will take a considerable amount of time.
Undoubtedly though (and cleverly) each person who accepts Richard’s offer will drive an amount of traffic towards him and hopefully increase readership.
Along similar lines Eoghan McCabe (designer of AllFreeCalls.ie) is offering €2000 worth of his design work to a person who subscribes to his blog feed.
It must be the season for competitions and give-aways because as many in the blogo-sphere will know the second leg of Blog feeds subscriber race is soon to come to an end. (Oh, and Free Drinks are up for grabs)
Personally, I have done quite a bit in the past 29 days. I’ve been working on quite a few projects such as a CMS, a Flash/XML banner system and some other small website projects. The other web-dev related thing I spend a bit of time on is testing and benchmarking different approaches to problems so that the end result (and for future projects) is the most highly optimised solution, and the one which is best future-proofed.
Sometime in the past week I got the idea that maybe it would be a good time to revisit C++ and see if the concepts and complex facets of the language were any easier to understand. What I found suprising and incouraging was that most of the language now made sense and “fitted” (possibly because of my work with PHP) and even very tricky concepts such as “pointers” and “references” now made alot more sense.
When I get a bit more free time on my hands I plan to get some sort of portfolio or project dump up because I have way too much stuff just sitting here on my PC which isn’t seeing the light of day.
**NOTE: It appears wordpress decided to include old posts that I had deleted back into my feed. Oh well.
