Buying (and moving into) a house will cost you some downtime in blogging. Some 127 days of downtime, to be precise. But, for me, it was worth it!
Now to get back into the game. For a few weeks now I’ve been trying, but haven’t been able to do so. Why? Not sure. How will I solve it? By doing what I do best: dissect the situation into a well organized overview.
Here’s a list of all the topics I feel I may write about.
Metaphors & Analogies
I love metaphors and analogies, especially when it comes to explaining IT stuff to non-technical folk. This includes but is not limited to the subtype “explanations for x year old” (here’s a great example with Dependency Injection). Some specific topics I enjoy:
- The difference between Stubs, Fakes, and Mocks, possibly using Santa Clause in the explanation.
- Differences between types of software testing.
- Finding appropriate titles for bug tickets that appeal to non-technical folk.
- A concise description of what I do at work.
Tools of 2013
Maybe I should write about some the tools I started using (more) in 2013:
- KnockoutJS, a client (JavaScript) MVVM library.
- Jenkins (CI software) and/or PowerShell scripting.
- Browser charting libraries.
- CSS extensions like SASS and LESS.
- Twitter Bootstrap.
Tools of 2014
Some things I may want to get into some more this coming year:
- Even though I sometimes hate it: Java. But only if I can get my hands on a Glass.
- Check out the competition for KnockoutJS.
- Some of the Apache projects like SOLR, Hadoop, etc.
- Differences between various DI Containers.
Pet Peeves
Here are some things that keep coming back:
- Dynamically pivoted business-oriented SQL exports (I wrote about this before).
Hmm, surely I have more pet problems? Maybe I should retrofit any I think of into this list.
Gaming
Two things come to mind for this category:
- An overview of my favorite / most played games;
- Something about my latest “addiction”: DOTA 2.
Miscellaneous
Making lists is one of the things I’m good at, but still I always end up with this category. Oh well, some final thoughts I may (or may not) write about:
- Things about The House.
- Choosing and/or building a home entertainment solution.
- An update about my Book List.
- Anything that can serve as a vehicle to practice making Infographics.
In any case: stay tuned!