Fresh start

16Jun09

Having spent months pondering how to migrate my old blog to here, I though to myself, is it of any value to anyone? In this day and age, does anyone really need to generate hibernate mappings from xdoclet, or sneakily introduce open source technology through the back door, because the “architecture committee” won’t have it. That’s all in the stone age. If you still consider generating Hibernate XML mappings with xdoclet, then I probably don’t want you on my blog anyway.

There are of course old technology blog entries that are of value, but I don’t think mine were amongst them.

That, and the irony of not scrapping a blog that contains at least two articles on attachment, convinced me I should just let go of it. I mean, the blog is still there, just that all the old urls are broken. Might upset a couple of search engines, but, really, who cares?

I guess the lesson this has taught me is that it’s stupid to build your own thing when much better ones are available out there, often for free. I only built my own blog, because I wanted to try Ruby on Rails. It was fun doing it, but then kept becoming more and more high-maintenance, until I just stopped posting. While watching the free blog suppliers add more and more cool features, which I just couldn’t have, because I’d built my own and had my main business to do as well.

So here we are – blank sheet and all that