Comments on: Why programmers should blog?

By: Nurafifah

Nurafifah — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:23:08 +0000

I absolutely agree with your opinion…

We can share our code, knowledge with other… If we make some mistake, other people can give us right solution…

sorry if my english so bad

By: Jeune

Jeune — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:45:26 +0000

I agree with your thoughts especially with this:

“Actually blogging is some sort of “Self Realization” for any developer. ”

I can’t count how many times I’ve realized errors in my code by merely blogging them. I’ve observed that compared to just thinking about them while wading through your code, blogging is actually a more effective debugging tool!

Kewl!

By: Zaki Shaheen

Zaki Shaheen — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:40:00 +0000

Well, you started off good. I wish you had completed the post and went into more detail .

Now to say programmers are incompetent or they lack the skills to write is a bad generalization. Programming is not just about writing code. And blogging is nothing to do with programming. They are not totally mutually exclusive, but they are not overlapping either. It takes time and space to blog – most just don’t have that much time and space to blog. That’s sort of an excuse, but not exactly. It’s like doing community service – we all can but how many of us really do? And then I personally believe that its better not to blog than to blog crap.

For me, blogging teaches me a lot of things.
1. consistency
2. how to be innovative (I heard a great entrepreneur saying if you want to be innovative, ask people about their problems).
3. How to be humble
4. How to share
5. How to socialize

I don’t need any of that to be a good programmer. KnR never blogged. Knuth never blogged. Linus never blogged. People never blogged before blogs came into existence and there have been some real hero programmers of the yore. But all of these heroes communicated, interacted, socialized nonetheless. Great programmers socialize. Great programmers share. Great programmers take the community with them. If a blog lets you do that – good. But I’d rather say join a newsgroup, an open source project, join chat rooms than write a blog. Because those things are more important to a programmer.

Just my two cents

By: Tahir Akram

Tahir Akram — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:07:19 +0000

Hi Kit;

Its a great idea, that blogging is open source contribution. I like that. Thanks for it.

By: Kit Plummer

Kit Plummer — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:29:52 +0000

I would assert it is not only a good idea, but our duty to blog. As you mentioned blogging serves as a qualified knowledge distribution mechanism. In my opinion blogging is a sort of open source contribution too. I blogged (:)) about it here:

http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2413&blogid=35

By: Tahir Akram

Tahir Akram — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:50:09 +0000

Thanks Harshit and Veera for your comments.

I hope your replies with this post encourage developers to write about their technical knowledge to be share with others.

By: harshit

harshit — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:16:09 +0000

Very True !!. I have personally realized that writing a blog helps me in better understanding of concept and also motivates me to learn new thing and put on blog

By: Veera

Veera — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:17:41 +0000

I agree on that. Blogging is, even though not the only one, one of the best medium for knowledge sharing. It’s like documenting our learning.

So, every programmer should try to document whatever learning he has acquired during a course of a project/career. That helps the programmer himself as well as the other programmers out there.