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The future of my blog by Mar Matthias Darin Hmmm... The title perhaps should be the future of my blogging software engine. As most know, I wrote the engine the builds this blog from scratch. A crazy decision probably, but one that has expanded my knowledge and presented me with quite a few challenges. I eventually hope to be able to release my software, first as alpha, then as a stable blogging platform others can use. The challenges are quite possibly the best part of my crazy adventure to re-invent the wheel. I've gained a vast amount of knowledge outside my normal field for programming. I am, by trade and formal education, skilled as a database and security specialist. These two areas are, in an of themselves, quite diverse and complex. So for me to venture into uncharted territory with this blog opened a new door in learning. I am one that believes that you should learn something new every single day of your life. This blog and the software was certainly no exception. I'm going to share some of the things I learned in my crazy adventure. When I started my blog and the software, I knew absolutely nothing about it. In essence, I was a complete idiot (meant in the most literal context) in blogging. For example, tag clouds looked like random words splattered on the screen with no coherent relationship. Now I understand the relationship of each word in the cloud, though most still look like a splattered mess. The second thing I learned was just how rusty I was in real writing. After spending twenty plus years writing cryptic code, writing in english was alien. I found it difficult to correlate paragraphs into a consistent thoughts or ideas. I ended up having to pick up an old MLA (modern language association) book and brushed up on my basic writing skills. It was like going back to school and learning the basics all over again. I couldn't believe how much I had forgotten. I have two degrees in Business and Computer Information Technologies, been certified to teach people with learning disabilities, trained people in Office Administration and was the youngest person hired to a full teaching level (in the entire state) position at the local college, worked my backside off to become a Priest, then again to become a Bishop and I have been a computer programmer for twenty nine years (damned, I'm getting old). Yet, I'd forgotten how to write in basic english. That was truly pathetic. Ironically, one would think I just put the cart before the horse. But I had to build the software prototype before I could even put up my first article. Technical writing is so dramatically different then creative writing and this is where I still find myself struggling at times. So far I've talked about the past experiences in building this blog, but where is its future? Its future is really a basis of its past. To look forward, one must be able to look back. Often, you can't appreciate where you are or where you are going without understanding and appreciating where you have been. Thus with that being said, the future of my blogging software really depends on, and is, a critical analysis of its past, especially where I wrote it from scratch and need to compare it to other mainstream blogging platforms in terms of operations and functionality. I have a lot of functionality still missing compared to the mainstream favorites. Contrary to that, I also have a distinctive approach to many blogging practices that I have seen being developed into the mainstream bloggging platforms. For example, when I first started the software, the idea of a flat file method that was functional in a large implementation was almost unheard of. There where only two or three choices and they were abandoned. Perhaps, in some small way, my wanting to avoid the problems of database issues and the security headaches of PHP has had some impact at looking at the situation differently. That really was my principle goal in all this, to provide a different point of view in blogging, both technically and creatively. Hopefully I've succeeded... So what does the future of my blogging software hold in store? More learning... 
Top tags: blogging, software, blog, future, writing, learning, crazy, mainstream, past, quite Comments from carol at A Second Cup 67.232.28.148 Matthias, What ever the future holds it will involve some level of teaching. I often learn from reading you blog. PS I find the new comment function much easier to use. Comments from Mar Matthias Darin Let's hope so. I get bored so easily... (grin) Let's also hope I don't forget my basic writing skills again (smile)... Thank you. Comments from PaulsHealthBlog.com 99.26.193.34 We are either learning and living or complacent and dying. P.S. I too prefer the comment function you now have. Comments from Mar Matthias Darin Very true. Thank you.
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