These are the (new – since Spring 2008) basic principles of this blog:
- To write tips to help other people out in similar situations that I have found myself in.
- To express criticism or praise of things I find important to myself, and especially to others in the world.
UPDATE June 2, 2008: (Regarding comments on this blog) Let me just say this about those people who find the comment approval system I set up in this blog annoying: it’s for efficiency reasons. I don’t want semi-random/unrelated words being scanned into Google or any other search engine’s bag of retrieved keywords. Many times, in my Ruby/Rails learning days, I would spend hours looking at blogs to find solutions to my programming problems (because of the absolute horrid state of documentation on Rails, as discussed in my Rails rant here), and realize how many of my initial google searches proved useless because the search terms were “contaminated,” so to speak, by rogue comments gone haywire on these tech blogs. And as you can see by now, I like my posts to be to-the-point, and as clear and expressive as possible to the curious visitors to this blog. If I don’t approve your comment (this has rarely happened), it means that either: (1) your comment has provided no constructive contribution to the post, or (2) your comment is spam (to the other people reading the blog). Comments like “cool!” fall into the second category, whereas comments like “Thanks, that helped” are not. However, I hate reading blog posts that have 49 comments on them, where 27 of them are saying the same thing like “it worked for me, thanks!”, so I will disapprove such comments after a certain number.
UPDATE May 26, 2009: I don’t care what you put in for your name/email for posting comments — I care about what you have to say, not what your identity is!
