I just finished reading Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt of The Pragmatic Programmers. It covers why and how to organize your thoughts effectively. Since reading the book, I have been taking steps to record my thoughts and have been and paper handy when I do find myself in situations where I am might come up with a solution to a problem I have been working on away from the area and time I was originally tangled with the issue.

Initially, I created this blog with the purpose to help me to become more efficient in my written communication, however this is now my first blog post within a year. In between that time I have joined Twitter and have become more active in my updates to Facebook where I at least post something there on a daily basis. I find myself throwing off my need to post here though, not without a lack of something to post on but instead not setting the time aside to do writing.

Andy Hunt's book touched on something else for me that has nagged on me for quite some time. I consider myself to be a web developer and many times I put off writing for other tasks I have on my plate. In doing so, I have seen my handwriting deteriorate along with my ability to communicate my thoughts in both written and oral fashion. It's something I am not proud of. I think as developers we sometimes put aside our need to build our communication skills so that we can improve upon our technical skills. However without proper communication, we can easily fall by the wayside and left to be irrelevant.

This blog was to be more than just a avenue to vent on the latest thing on my mind, but instead to communicate my insight one things that I was currently working, would like to get into or discuss other topics outside software development. I got away from that and allowed myself to become distracted by other things. Therefore, I plan to keep my commitment to this blog to effectively communicate my activities, not just for my personal gain but to communicate to others.

It feels good to blow the dust off this website one more time.