Hello World

As any developer knows, one must always start with "Hello World."

I am very excited to enter the world of maintaining my own blog. I have blogged in the past here and there for others, and found it to be a very personally rewarding task. The idea of your thoughts and your take on matters being available for anyone who is interested to read, that's pretty cool. Definitely a triumph of our era, I'd say.

I've spent a good number of years now "learning to code", along with my handful of mentors - but I've been learning in a handicapped way, that is, disconnected - hiding in a back room somewhere.

I've recently stopped ignoring the hype of things like Twitter and started participating in sites like Stack Overflow, rather than just gleaning from it the answers I need. I have to tell you, it's a whole new ballgame.

This new level of involvement in my learning, and through learning, also teaching, is so much more fulfilling and humbling. It's Awesome!

So I say to whoever happens by this blog post, "Hello World!". I'm glad to have met you.