Thread: My personal dev blog

Hey all!

Well, over the past week I have been setting up a site dedicated to programming. It is early days yet, but will contain tutorials, reviews and articles on all sorts of programming.

Here it is: http://www.dev.harrynorthover.co.uk

In the near future, this will be moved to it's own domain and become my main blog.

Please give me any feedback (design, articles, style of writing, etc...) or advice.

Thanks,
Harry!

Originally Posted by Fordy

...or I could just come her.

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...or I could just come her.

That's not the point of this post. The blog is about everything I know about programming and I want to write about it.

Think about it....

This is a totally different site to my blog...

Harry.

Depends on the blogger really. If it's a blog for an already established programming community It probably will be more helpful for me than just one person's blog. Or if the blog was geared more towards tutorial based information rather than random opinions then yes.

I aim to post tutorials on programming (C#, C, C++).

Thanks for the advice.

What sort of material will you be tutoring?

If you're going to do yet another one of these, I personally don't see the value beyond what gratification you get from writing it. The point of writing a manual is that people will read it and you're going to have to pimp the hell out of your blog to get an audience.

After a successful try, you'll be attacked by help vampires and script kiddies who want to burn down their school because they didn't turn in their homework. Down with "the man"!

Again though, convince yourself there is a point to what you're doing.

Originally Posted by citizen

After a successful try, you'll be attacked by help vampires and script kiddies who want to burn down their school because they didn't turn in their homework. Down with "the man"!

"Help Vampires" is a pretty bad term because Vampires are generally successful in draining their victims. More like, "Help Beggars"

You should seperate the parts in tabs to make it more organised. An example:

[ Home ] - [ C++ Tutorials ] - [ Reviews ] - [ About ] - [ Contact ]

This is just what I would do to make it more organised because if you click on the categories at the side it gives you the full posts and in order of when they were posted (latest first, so that would mean they would need to scroll to the bottom to read the first one).

I intend to write tutorials on what I feel passionate about, and also topics that aren't covered very well elsewhere. As you say, there isn't much point in writing tutorials on something that has already been covered 1000's of times...

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