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What Drives a Developer to participate in a Software blog?

By Jon Bullinger (Intel) (52 posts) on January 18, 2009 at 10:04 am

As the Intel Software Partner Program begins the New Year, we would like to hear from you on what drives you to participate in a Software blog? (the information sharing? The feedback and interaction?)

Please participate in this post; we would like to hear your voice.

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January 18, 2009 10:07 AM PST C. Watford

Falls under the same reason I attend classes every second Saturday to keep my EMT-Basic credential: Continuing Education. You won't stay ahead in your field without reading and participating in what other people are learning and doing in your field.

January 18, 2009 7:11 PM PST paul

One of the first community of bloggers were software development bloggers, because there is always something new to learn I've been blogging about software development for just about five years and there is still so much to learn.....

January 19, 2009 11:25 AM PST Jon Bullinger (Intel) Total Points: 4,350 Registered User

Excellent comments from all, I agree with continuing education/information in all fields

January 20, 2009 7:11 PM PST Doug Holland (Intel) Total Points: 14,135 Black Belt

With the field of software changing on almost an hourly basis it is important for us to remain aware of the change that surrounds us. Before the dawn of the blogosphere we largely upon print journals, where a small number of engineers and academics contributed to various debates within software engineering. Since then almost anyone can contribute to the debate either by authoring their own blog or by commenting upon the blogs written by others. I personally enjoy writing blog posts because of the interaction with those who take the time to read and comment upon those posts. While it is always nice to see comments that suggest the reader is in agreement with you it is more educational to engage with those who might disagree with me. If you're reading this and have yet to embrace your inner-journalist then go ahead and enter the blogosphere and let the debate continue...

January 20, 2009 10:01 PM PST Dale Taylor (Intel) Total Points: 9,564 Brown Belt

Keeping up with the currents of our industry is a great reason to start reading and following blogs, but what about writing and contributing? I found that writing was a great way to share technical documents and work I had been writing with a larger group, team etc. It's also been a way to share work with outside companies I have been working with. It started with documents, expanded to Wiki articles and eventually blogs because people kept asking about things and it's a convenient way to share ideas and work. Sending out links is much easier than continually re-writing the same ideas. It also forces me to keep current on the various topics.

January 22, 2009 6:17 AM PST Steve Nuchia Total Points: 2,312 Brown Belt

I've been a programmer for thirty years but a Windows programmer for only two. In the past I've participated very actively in usenet newsgroups in the adoption phase of new technologies, less so in the coasting phase. Similarly, I've been very active while coming up to speed on a huge variety of Microsoft technologies and Intel fortran, and dealing with porting our code base from VC6 to Orcas. But I've been a lot less active in the past several months as we've been coasting towards our own next release: tools and such are frozen at the moment. My next major assignment is to reimplement our PHP-based web product using .NET stuff. I'll be active again, but in a different set of fora. Monitoring the blogosphere, even during the coasting phase, is important because I find out about things I wouldn't otherwise have known I was looking for.

January 27, 2009 3:08 PM PST Jon Bullinger (Intel) Total Points: 4,350 Registered User

Excellent input from all, I would agree there is only some information one can find by surfing the blogosphere.

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