Blogging on
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 | Permalink
As you might know, this site has been around for quite a while. I'm not sure when it first came online, but my oldest demo is from the year 2000. So at least 8 years, maybe 9. It started as a traditional personal homepage and has more or less stayed that way, except maybe that I added the "news" section (the one you're currently reading) a couple of years into its existance.
However, as you may have noticed I'm not posting much news anyway. The news I'm posting is mostly about new content on the site, such as demos, cubemaps or galleries. Hence there may be months between each update. So at times it may seem like I'm not working on any new projects. However, a majority of the projects I start on never result in a demo and leave no visible trace of having ever been worked on. Only once I've finished a demo do you see a news item here. So if several of the ideas I've been experimenting with have failed I sometimes get somewhat uncomfortable with the fact that there has been several months without a website update.
So the other day I was discussing programming blogs with some friends. I was asked why I'm not blogging and was told I really should, which when I thought about it is a very good idea. I figure people might be interested in what projects I'm working on, and when projects fail it's a good idea to post about it and why it failed. It may help other people that are attempting things in the same field and hopefully I might get some feedback that can turn some of those projects around into something that actually works. And it should make it more visible that I'm working on stuff and relieve me from any stress related from not having been able to publish any finished demo in a while. Further I think it may be a good idea to put down my thoughts from time to time on subjects such as interesting rendering techniques. Since I'm also into photography I suppose there might be a post or two about that too from time to time.
Now, I don't think I'll be posting on a daily basis, but from now on this site should turn somewhat more blog-like, although there won't be any other change than more frequent posting. And with just days from my holiday vacation it's perhaps an odd timing to announce a new effort given that the next few weeks are likely to be quite silent.
But hey, a soft start might be a good thing.
Steel111
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
I completely support.
Aras Pranckevičius
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Yay.
...now all that's left is an RSS or Atom feed
Gregory
Monday, December 22, 2008
icing on the cake would be an rss feed
cheers
