Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category

Announcing Intro to Lisp Workshop

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

The first big project by the Chicago Lisp User Group is a half-day workshop to introduce Lisp and its goodness to other programmers. The primary audience is the Chicago Linux User Group but it open to everyone. This is the initial announcement and tentative schedule. The most ...

Tasteful Monetization and the Passionate Developer Community

Monday, March 31st, 2008

It's impossible to read about blogging without hearing talk about "monetization" - making money off the attention your blog gets. This isn't a problem for most writers, since nobody reads their blog. I'm no blog celebrity, but at this point, I've had 4 or 5 articles that were ...

Now With 70% More RSS!

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

When I looked at my stats, I saw that very few people appeared to be coming from RSS.  I know that RSS readers are hard to track down (that's why Feedburner sold for $100 million), so I just used Google Reader as a proxy.  There were about 6 people per ...

Tooting My Own Horn

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

After spending a (very) long time on the Reference for the SLIME/Lisp/Emacs Screencast and getting lots of good reviews of it, I've taken a little pause from writing to actually do some coding! A few months ago, I started going through Practical Common Lisp, but found it too painful ...

Two recommended blogs

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

There are two blogs I've recently begun reading (and they've recently begun writing). Most of the time I read a new blog, I found it because one of the posts was on Hacker News. If I like the post, I'll look at the recent and archive posts on ...

Blogging Strategy, Social News Stats

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Jeff Atwood gave the best possible advice for people who want to make a successful blog: When people ask me for advice on blogging, I always respond with yet another form of the same advice: pick a schedule you can live with, and stick to it. Until you do that, ...