This is the second relaunch of my blog. Everything I had prior to now is toast as I changed blog platforms and even infrastructures in order to get things to where I want them. Why the relaunch again?

Blog Purpose

I wanted to start focusing more information in 3 general areas: technology (including book reviews), project management (which is my current profession), and other geek-type things that interest me in the realm of technology. As those who know me quite well, I am a pop-culture nut who reads enormous amounts of novels and comics, watches a lot of TV, and sees a lot of movies. (According to one coworker, I would be the perfect partner for Cranium, if ever I showed up at the events where they play it.) I plan on setting up another blog for things along those lines separate from this one, but would add a link to it when I get to that point.

More Focused

I work in the IT sector, having moved up from a development position to that of a project manager. I still dabble in code though, as it has always been something that has been there for me since I was in elementary school (read: grade school to the Americans). I see a larger picture now than I did before, and having worked mostly on public-facing web applications and sites in the past, I have some strong feelings and thoughts about the user interface and experience of applications (hence my growing fascination for Silverlight and WPF technologies). I would like to think that this blog will allow me to focus upon that.

Modifiable Technologies for Me

It has been many years since I played around on Linux. The last blog I set up was based on WordPress and installed within Linux by GoDaddy (my hosting provider). It worked all right. However, I am more a Microsoft technology developer, and using a Linux-based solution meant that it would be a different learning curve for me to look at applying changes, creating modules, etc. With that, I installed BlogEngine.NET on my hosting account after changing it over to a Microsoft-based account. (I will recap how fun THAT was to make happen in my next post.) Suffice to say, I am now back in an environment that I am more comfortable with.

The blog will undergo some changes soon, mostly in terms of look and feel as I get used to creating a theme of my own. This only got working last night so I haven't had much time yet... but creating at least one module for this system is on my to-do list. Once I get those items done, I will post them here as well, as the goal here is going to be to give back to the community in terms of what it has given me: continued growth and insight into the development world, which is great since my day-to-day is no longer that of a developer.