The 3 N’s – New Year, New direction, New content
As you will notice, I have not written a post in this blog since February of ’08 – nearly a year! When I started my blog (just over a year ago) I did so with the intention of focusing the content solely on Web Operations (my current day job) and only posting when I felt as though I had something of real value to share with everyone. As the year wore on, it felt as though the bulk of my web operations experience was pretty common, without real value, and that last thing I want to do is waste a reader’s time.
Considering it has been nearly a year between posts, it has proven to be a bit of a struggle to focus only on web ops with stories that I think will be relevant for the intended audience (it’s proven difficult for me anyway, not so much for Allspaw over at Kitchen Soap – good ops stuff there). So, I have decided to expand the scope of my blog. Rather than dedicate the blog entirely to web operations, I’ve decided to target a wider audience and talk about the role technology plays in my daily life as it has for the last … well, let’s just say quite a few years.
I have always considered myself a technology generalist. In my career I’ve held positions in various disciplines within the field. A few on the list are; hardware repairs (pc’s, printers, overhead projectors – long before whiteboards), network administration, development, infrastructure design, security and most recently, web operations. Given my geek history and realization of the fact that technology plays such an integral part of my daily life, I think it will be much easier – and hopefully more beneficial for prospective readers – to write meaningful posts about my experiences with technology in my day to day activities.
And so with that, barrfbag.com will now be called Daily Technical. And you can ask, but I really don’t know what I was thinking with the original name (not sure I love the new name either, but I guess ya gotta call it something).
I’ll leave you with one very useful item, the O’Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations conference is coming up on June 22 this summer. I attended their inaugural conference last year and it was well worth every penny. I highly recommend attending if you are able.
Brian