The Mindful Coder – Introducing…
I work as a Software Design Engineer at a Downtown Toronto firm and have always wanted to have a blog purely for code and code related discussions. I have a couple of personal blogs but they didn’t seem the right place for technical posts – kind of obvious. So, introducing The Mindful Coder!
This blog will probably have posts related to whatever I happen to be working on. I don’t think it will be specific to any technology, framework or language. At least, there are no plans to scope it right now. It may happen that I keep going back to certain languages or technologies. It may also happen that certain topics or tech domains draw more interest and this blog obeys those demands. Anything is possible and I am excited about the possibilities.
Some tags you may expect initially: Flex, Actionscript, Team Foundation Server, C#, .Net, WPF, Silverlight, Popfly, iphone.
The one reason I decided to finally start this blog was that I have been writing a lot of internal “wiki posts” and documents inside our company (We use Sharepoint a lot). I noticed how much they help me evolve an idea – more often than not, my original solutions get sculpted during that 1 hour of writing that post or document. The conclusion I arrived at was that logging even the most mundane discovery or thought – especially when I am playing with something new will help the write-to-disk process.
Also, I have some devotion worthy developers as friends – rockstar developers who somehow manage to be awesomesauce and unbelievably down to earth at the same time. I plan to have then come on from time to time and share their thoughts too. While my posts will probably be mundane and dry, I fully expect their posts to be mind-expanding.
I am unbelievably excited about The Mindful Coder. I hope I sustain it and we take off. Blogging takes a lot of commitment and I am determined to commit this time 
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I work a lot with Microsoft technologies but am also a big Apple fan boy. I go both ways .
Here’s how I will probably be punching out most of my posts:
Blogging client: Windows Live Writer (The best client out there)
OS: Win XP running on Mac OS X Leopard via VMWare Fusion
Category: Code, Updated at December 21, 2008 by The Fat Oracle | Log in