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There have been many, many times where I was struggling with some technical issue and I found a solution to the same (or similar) problem on someone's blog. Ev
by dpapathanasiou 16y ago
There have been many, many times where I was struggling with some technical issue and I found a solution to the same (or similar) problem on someone's blog.
Even if you don't get a lot of traffic or comments, you may be able to help someone in the future.
That alone is a good reason to do it.
- ora600 16y agoActually, I found more and better solutions in blogs than in official documentation and books. Especially the topic of edge cases or documentation that doesn't work as advertised or error messages that don't mean what they think they mean. No official install guide will say "But if you are running this on Ubuntu 8.0.4, it will throw off a spurious error message about wrong xpong version. you can ignore it and everything will be fine or you can fix this by running the install with --xpong-compatible", but bloggers say things like that all the time. I try to blog every time I run into misleading documentation and every time I run into an error and there are no useful results when googling for that error message. The error messages and install guides are probably the biggest traffic generators for my blog.