Starting a Programming Blog

After much talk and procrastination, I finally started a blog. Over the past few months or so I have considered starting one. I really like the idea of putting my thoughts down on paper to see my progression as a software engineer. What better time to start then right when I graduate college?

But I have to answer one main question before I start…

Why blog? Well, I can think of a few reasons: to better myself as a programmer and as a communicator. I can’t count the number of times where I have explained some concept or problem to colleagues and then found that I understood the topic a bit better by explaining it (regardless of if they understood me or not). My hope is that by jotting down some problems and solutions that I come across, I will be able to save the next person who has the same problem a bit of time.
So this blog has three goals:

1. Improve my programming skills
2. Improve my communication skills
3. Help out fellow programmers that run into similar problems

After poking around online, I stumbled across this blog post about, well, creating blogs. This post made starting up a blog look simple enough. We’ll see how long it takes me to get everything up and running!