One of the problems with setting up a website or especially a blog is the guilt you give yourself over not writing more often. “It’s been a long time since I’ve written here…” I see it all over the place. There are even people who guilt themselves for not writing every day. I’ve decided I’m just not going to worry about that. Instead I run my web statistics and check how many times people are looking at old entries. The one about W and Y is particularly popular, for some strange reason.
I don’t have a lot of Christmas spirit this year — feeling very cynical. Mainly due to work, with the same perennial problem: working with people who are clueless when it comes to defining what they want out of an application. Sometimes I can invent stuff. Other times I just can’t be bothered.
In this case I’m working with ASP.NET and C# — despite whatever technical merits they might have, they’re still Microsoft products. And now that I’ve started, I actually don’t have a good reason to be using them. I really should be writing this in PHP instead. But: I’ve already started and would have to go back and recreate. I’d have to support a UNIX server myself. I don’t intend to stick with it. And — might be useful to know some C# and ASP.NET just for comparison. Right? Right.
The W and Y entry, by the way, is still getting hits.