A couple of reasons:
- I'm a programmer sitting in a nice lab surrounded by a bunch of friendly EE / mech / optical engineers who have essentially no interest in programming. Therefore, I have nobody to talk to about the interesting / frustrating / amusing little things I stumble across in my daily software excursions. So I'm talking to you instead :-)
- Some of the things I'll post here required a bit of Googling to discover. Some may have been buried rather deeply in message board postings, archived mailman threads, etc. Where a workaround appeared frustratingly obscure, I'm using this to repost the final solution for others to find, hopefully with somewhat more descriptive keywords and narrative context.
- While I've been programming for many years, mainly in Linux C/C++/Java/Perl environments doing database middleware, web interfaces or system scripting, I've recently jumped into an all-new "pond" involving Microsoft Visual Studio, C#/VB, USB device drivers, LabView, and a bunch of interesting technologies that I've rarely had to mess with before. Therefore I have a lot of fresh "noob" perspective that I might as well leverage into breadcrumbs (for my own reference as well as others).
- I guess Facebook has put me in the mindset of sharing interesting little anecdotes, yet perversely Facebook itself is a poor forum for technical chatter: it seems more for aunts and cousins than work dialogs. Too much technobabble on FB will likely just get you blocked from the feeds of otherwise purely social contacts (quite reasonably, I should add).
Lastly, some of this is stuff I would normally document on a departmental / company wiki, but my current company doesn't provide much in that regard (GForge...bleah), so you reap the benefit instead :-)
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