Let’s Get Back to Business
Five years ago, and for about two years after that, I was an avid blogger. I maintained a personal blog that focused on PHP (specifically the Zend Framework) and a year later I launched a successful blog on Erlang, known as spawn_link. Both blogs had a readership of over 500 people, which, while not trying to brag, I was proud of.
Though both blogs brought multiple serious job offers, it was my personal blog which got me my first two jobs in the tech industry (note that I was only 17 when I started blogging!). My first job was at Zend as a contractor doing screencasts for the Zend Framework, and my second job, and still my current employer, was with Citrusbyte, a modern web development shop (which introduced me to the Ruby programming language).
Both jobs kept me busy, super busy, and the result was that I stopped blogging!
The past few years I’ve worked with some extremely smart people, had some unbelievable experiences, and have grown — in many ways — at a rapid speed. There is still so much out there I want to do and things to learn, but I think my experiences the past few years and ongoing deserve to be put down to “ink” for others to gain from.
And that’s my goal with this blog: Let’s get back to business, the business of giving back for everything that I’ve gained.
