I've always been a fan of Scott Hanselman. He very smart and entertaining. I subscribe to his weekly 30 minute podcast called Hanselminutes. The link below are to a video cast of Scott explaining why every developer needs to have a blog and I couldn't agree more. Getting your ideas out to print is very beneficial. I feel that my blog has helped me greatly with my communication skills. Yes and I'm still working on them.

My website has been through many changes through out the years. At first it was just to help me learn HTML. Later I started developing software and wanted to sell it so it became very commercial. I finally decided that no I want to simply blog so I created my own "blog" engine which totally sucked. Just a few weeks ago I decided that I'm done trying to recreate the wheel (there is a time and place for this but that's another blog entry) and installed BlogEngine.NET. Now I have a real blog with RSS feeds and everything that a blog should be. 

I've done just about everything he said not to in his talk. I've blogged so many times about not blogging. Sounds silly now that I look back on it. I really feel that I have gotten it right this time. I will blog when I have something to blog about. Turns out if you just do it that it's not that hard. And it is easier than you think. Yes some may say that it's not worth it because no one will read your blog. Well that's fine but there's plenty of other reasons to do it. Check out the video cast and prepare to become a Scott Hanselman fan!

Note: You may need to download the WMV or Zune (Quality WMV, still will play in WMP) because I kept getting the error below when trying to stream the video cast.

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In this talk, I propose that EVERY developer needs a blog.

In 2009, I presented a talk at Wintellect's Devscovery conference called "Social Networking for Developers." My postulate was that EVERY developer should be using Social Networking, and this talk I gave was my introduction of this idea to a large group. This was the keynote for the conference. I finally got ahold of the source recordings (only guerilla recordings had been available previously) and as even those recordings were popular, so I'm preserving these talks here as a way of encouraging more discussion.

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Every Developer Needs a Blog - Part 1

Every Developer Needs a Blog - Part 2

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