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posted by witten on February 04, 2007
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Coderific blog. First, let me tell you a little about myself. I develop software for a living, and by that I mean that people in suits pay me to press little square lettered buttons for about eight hours each day to produce a series of zeros and ones that they then sell to other people in suits. I also develop software for fun, which means that I press little square lettered buttons for another several hours each day to produce a different series of zeros and ones that for some odd reason is extremely edifying.One of those series of zeros and ones constitutes the fine web site you are currently enjoying. (Hint: No one in a suit paid me to make it.) Coderific originally arose to fill a gap, the gap between knowing some basics about a company and knowing whether you'd like to work there. And anyone who has worked in the tech industry for any length of time knows that asking a company for its opinion of itself is no way to get a good, balanced impression of whether they're a good employer. The only way to find out the real facts about an employer is to ask the people who have actually worked there.But you already know the basic premise of this site. So how about this. I'll list off some of the topics that I intend to eventually cover in this blog, and you'll sit there and nod and smile and pretend you're interested in them.Firstly, you can bet your favorite text editor and/or IDE that this blog will cover the tech industry from the perspective of the people who actually write code in it. This won't be an IT manager rag, and it certainly won't be a blog gushing about the latest regurgitated press releases from consumer electronics and/or software giants. All I really care about is the people who slave away to make the cogs turn, and I'm guessing that unless you're one of the people in suits, you do too.Secondly, this blog will be technical. I will cover geeky topics. I will slant unabashedly in the open source / free software direction. This is first and foremost a coder's blog, so don't expect anything less.Last but not least, this blog will be about Coderific itself. I will announce new and prospective site features here first. This blog has an rss feed, and as can be expected, you're free to post comments on any particular blog entry.So welcome to Coderific, and please let me know if you'd like me to cover any specific topics of interest.