{"id":6624,"date":"2013-10-22T19:37:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/?p=6624"},"modified":"2013-10-22T19:37:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:37:50","slug":"5-years-of-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/mysql\/5-years-of-blogging","title":{"rendered":"5 years of blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/\">openark.org blog<\/a> is now five years old. Hurrah!<\/p>\n<p>Throughout these five years I posted almost exclusively MySQL oriented blogs, though I had every intention of writing on various engineering topics.<\/p>\n<p>I still see blogging as one of the most important forms of knowledge sharing, and indeed for me the blogs aggregated at <a href=\"http:\/\/planet.mysql.com\/\">Planet MySQL<\/a> are my main source of MySQL information. I especially like to read technical content straight from the developer; but am also keen on being updated with news on conferences, releases, distributions and some insightful opinions.<\/p>\n<p>The advent of the Stack Exchange websites makes for a common place where people get to learn &#8220;how to issue this query&#8221; or &#8220;how replication works&#8221;. I can see the <a href=\"http:\/\/dba.stackexchange.com\/\">DBA site<\/a> gaining popularity, though still going slow. Eventually I suspect it will be the one place where people share their questions and answers.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless blogging is a great way of sharing a new finding of yours; express an opinion; review a product. So I hope for five more years of active blogging, and thank the readers of this blog for keeping watch!<\/p>\n<p>Some numbers: to date I&#8217;ve posted <strong>296<\/strong> MySQL related posts (so <strong>1.13<\/strong> blog posts per week, evenly spread). The vast majority were technical; and a few opinions. I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/?s=tales+of+the+trade\">6 comic strips<\/a>; most of which were,\u00a0I&#8217;m afraid, largely misunderstood\u00a0 (the blame is on me) and projected exactly the opposite perception I was trying to express. I&#8217;m bound to fail again.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic can be better (not sharing all my secrets). Been a slow down in the past months. I know, I haven&#8217;t produced much <a href=\"http:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/mysql\/sql-pie-chart\">Pie charts<\/a> lately.<\/p>\n<p>Again, thank you for reading or commenting. No point in blogging if no one pays attention to your blabbering! And do keep coming \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&lt;\/meta-post&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>openark.org blog is now five years old. Hurrah! 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