Ok, I'll admit it, I am a procastinator. Even though I have the best of intentions at times, I still find myself battling the desire to learn versus actually doing the work, and when you are a husband and father it can be easy to play the Dad card. Additionally, when the technology you have come to learn and love has largely remained unchanged, you can hit a comfort zone where there is seemingly no real "need" to grow. (This seems to be a real epidemic in the enterprise dev space unfortunately) However, as a new year has dawned I am finding myself feeling mentally renewed and ready to start taking on some of the more significant technical challenges I see before me since I last wrote an entry to this blog. (Yes it really has been going on 6 years!) Topics such as cloud computing, data science, mobile and responsive/progressive web design are at the forefront of my mind these days, and I figure if sharing my experiences of diving into these topics can help others then that is a way I can contribute some small portion to those that have helped me over the years.
Heading into the coming months I am hoping to touch on a number of topics, each of which are either highly relevant to what I do on a daily basis as an enterprise developer or an area of interest of mine that I think would be interesting to research. With this though I do want to clarify that I am not going to be presenting these posts as some sort of authoritative piece, where I spend hours or days performing research and writing a small thesis. I've found that to be one of the primary reasons I avoided blogging for so long as well. What I will do though is my due diligence and try to not serve as one of the many echo chambers on the web and provide my own unique insight into my situation and how the technology applies. My intention with this blog is and always has been to share my experiences and hopefully serve as a way to help others in similar situations or provide a place for discussion.
Now, enough of the banter and on to the blogging. I wish everyone a healthy and prosperous new year and look forward to providing some fresh new content this week.
