Hi

Well... Why this blog? OK - to make a short story looong. 

Way back when, when the air was clean and sex was du... OK maybe not that looong. 

Anyhow - perhaps some background first.

I’m a software engineer, and I have been developing C/C++/C# embedded and Windows software for more than 11 years now. Currently I am working with .Net 4.5 Windows applications ... and software development is what this blog is about.

I once attended a seminar, with a very renowned software guru.  Unfortunately I have forgotten his name in the meantime. But I do remember some of the things he thought. 

One of them, and one I took to heart at once, was to, during the development of software, keep kind of like a journal. And in that journal, keep track of what you are doing. Which problems you are solving. Which good ideas you get. Nice ways to get around, or perhaps straight though, complicated challenges. 

Once every now and then, say every fought night, read through the journal, so you'll remember what you have written about. In that way you will never have to solve the same problems over and over again. You will never have to come up with the same brilliant ideas over and over again. And you will never have to use pressures time figuring out how to tagle the same complicated challenges over and over again. 

As mentioned before, this was way back when... or perhaps just back when there were no clouds out there in cyberspace. So I started out using... you know... pen and paper. Unfortunately this first journal got lots somehow while switching jobs - and I didn't have a backup (in case you missed it, that was a joke. Kind of like the one that goes "I haven't lost my mind. It's on back somewhere"). Anyway then I started using a Word document. All well and good. Migrated this to a Google Docs (now Google Drive), and now I'm pretty sure that I'll never loose it again. 

But lately I've been thinking that perhaps other people could benefit from my experience, and then I decided to start this blog. 

So back to the starting point, and my first question: Why this blog. And that's it. To be able to keep track of my journal, and in the hopes that you folks can benefit from my experience. 

Hope you enjoy it. 

Best regards 

Christian