Dev Dawn

It’s out, and lookeen goood.

Get your gear on, and go get it.

Go.

– Dilbert blog –

In other news – poker night – was a successful trial I thought. Get your poker on at – LastCallPokerDotCom – always free and with a mystery.

The site has had a few more updates. Have cleared up the sidebar. Ads won’t display on some pages, along with the Tools & Other sections.

Related Entries is a pretty awesome little plugin that allows for nice navigation through posts.

Each Category now has an image associated with it, which displays within the post, thanks to the Multi Topic Icon plugin. Am still experimenting with the size of the images. It may be too much to handle, we’ll see.

It really is amazing the plethora of mods out there for Wordpress. I’m like a kid, in some kind of a store.

While researching for the next content/series, I came across Ten Rules for Web Startups. It’s short, sweet, and concise. To the point. Simple. Profound. Wise.

And so on. An excellent post packed full of purpose. You could be doing okay if you ascribed to these points.

The problem with being able to dream up lots of different ideas is that you have to manage them. Especially once you get them out, and other people depend on them. Because then it’s a lot harder to “shelve” a project, once it’s reached an audience. A client audience.

One of the visions of Dev Dawn was to enable new projects to be developed. A platform. This is still in the early stages, but as I continue to experience the realities of software development, both at my Job, and with my own Software, it becomes clearer to me that I need to note down the learning/experiences that occurs, so that we might be able to collate these into some kind of knowledge-base. Of course, I would think this is standard practice within a programming team, but it’s all new for me.

Being a new-Be to this world, I’m discovering elements to blogging that at first weren’t apparent. This is all going into a series of articles on my experiences with blogging. But anyway, to be successful (not necessarily numbers-wise, but truly vision successful) you need to have clarity of your purpose. Exactly what do you want to do with the blog. It doesn’t matter that you don’t put up content like all the other blogs you read … what matters is that you stay true to your vision (which can change) and be consistent in that vein.

There’s a lot more. It’s a complex field … one that I’m learning new things about all the time. And it’s changing too, which is awesome.

Thanks

Found the Web 2.0 Validator while checking out Tad’s Spot.

It’s a pretty nifty little idea, and allows for some semblance of checks against a site. Dev Dawn gets a 5 at the moment, which is okay in my books.

Some of the checks I want to immediately address … which is why I like the site. Rather than making me feel like I have to keep up with the times, it’s more that the Validator pushes me to think about enhancing my site, and what would make it better.

So kudos to 30 Second Rule for a very cool little idea that originated in a Coffee Shop (the Office). Nice.

Soft Velocity is the company that is currently “making” Clarion. They have always had an active community, mostly through the news.softvelocity.com newsgroup, but I’ve noticed, over the few years I’ve been a clarion user, that they, and the clarion community in general, have been slow to take on some of the better sides of the Interweb.

One of these, not so obvious at first glance sides, is that of giving back to the community. It’s so easy with functionality like a blog these days. Just becoming a little more human. There is something within us that likes to hear actual opinions and ideas from people, especially when we’re in a similar situation.

Anyway … Community Server :: Blog is one half of a new initiative by Soft Velocity.

The Other Half of the initiative are the forums. But I’m not interested in that part at the moment.

What I’m interested in, or more, wanting them to take on, is more than just that blog. I’m speaking as two people I guess. One is the Reader, and one as the Thinker. Both of these combine to tell me …

I want to see an easier-on-the-eye blog. With pictures. Pictures are good, as I’ve recently begun to see …:).

The blog should be self-contained. When you click on a post, why would it go to a completely different theme/scheme? Make it a little more friendly for the casual browser, who finds it through posts like this. Easier to navigate. To find out exactly what Clarion can do for them.

And start pimpin it, if not already. Get it onto blog sites, get other bloggers to do articles, interviews, shouts to the community. Because although it’s a great community, we want to expand. I want to be a better developer. And I want Clarion to get better. In heaps of different ways, not just functionality.

It’s an exciting time, and we should be taking hold of the methods and means that are becoming very real today.

Anyway … just a note. This is in no way a flame ladened missile. Whether right or wrong, it’s how much it makes people think. If it doesn’t change a thing, then cool. But perhaps a thought might occur while disagreeing that leads to someone becoming a better developer, furthering their understanding.

And that’s the purpose of Dev Dawn.

A little dated, but only came upon it this morning…..

The guys at Pervasive write:

PERVASIVE SOFTWARE ENTERS MAINSTREAM CORPORATE DATABASE MARKET WITH POSTGRESQL, THE MOST ADVANCED OPEN SOURCE DATABASE
Pervasive Postgresâ„¢, the most advanced and consumable open source database for mainstream business applications, augments the company’s high value, low cost data management offerings

AUSTIN, Texas – January 10, 2005 – Pervasive Software® Inc. (Nasdaq: PVSW), a global value leader in data infrastructure software, today introduced Pervasive Postgresâ„¢, the first integrated set of open source software and services from an established database company designed to remove significant barriers to adoption and help enterprises benefit from open source database technology. Corporate customers can now confidently adopt a superior open source database from a reputable source, a public company with a 20-year history in delivering high quality, low cost data management products to tens of thousands of customers around the world.

…
Read On

Interesting…

Bits from johnmo.com

Up until just recently, I thought it was more unique to come up with cryptic and funny titles for my posts. Now I’m not so sure. Or rather, I’m thinking that for the most part, a descriptive title is better. Not always, I’m not gonna let a good funny title pass by, or one that plays on our social vernacular, or something something.

Anyway, hopefully this is part of the growth of understanding when doing something over a period of time. Pushing yourself further. Maybe.

The thought came to me, I’ve only been blogging for a few months, and haven’t been going hard yakka posting to Slashdot, so there must be others out there with much larger rejection numbers that me.

I’m sitting, as of right now, on 10 Rejections and 1 Pending.

Please note, this is in no way a whinge or flame on Slashdot. They’re doing a great job, and I love their Why didn’t you post my story? reasons. Specially the last one.

Anyway, how many Rejections have you gotten from Slashdot.

And have you kept going, especially if they are your own articles/posts?

Cheers, Thanks for Reading.

Edit:
Make that 11 Rejections. Heh heh.