Happy 5th Anniversary

Also my Birthday is a week away
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Today, this blog is 5 years old. I started it secretly on April 1st, 2013. It wasn't something that I thoroughly planned. One day, I woke up with something to say, and in one sitting I wrote the first 5 posts. I had nowhere to post it. So I bought a domain name, built a quick CRUD engine, (which powers every website I build now) and posted them.

The rest is history... or not really.

This is not an authoritative website with a monetization strategy and a marketing plan. Here you find a collection of my musings and a few technical solutions that I keep somewhere handy. Some articles have never been read by anyone, others have been so popular that they broke down the website.

Year five is a milestone for me because I had no real guidance when I started in the world of programming. I read random things on the internet, took a class outside my curriculum, read some more random things. Somewhere in between, programming became my calling and I dropped out of college to pursue this new path for my career. And what a rewarding path it is.

I felt compelled to leave this little note here, which will probably be buried between the chaos of useful and useless things I write on the blog. If you happen to stumble upon it, I'll say thank you for reading. We all turn to the web to get answers. And from time to time, one of those answers is mine. I hope whatever you find here that it be of the greatest of use to you.

Hopefully, next time I write it will be for the 10th anniversary, and you will feel that awkwardness that you are feeling right now as I am talking to you as if I know you. Remember, a stranger is only a single step away from being a friend. If you find the time, send me a little hello at ibrahim@idiallo.com or on twitter @dialloibu.

Thank you

On a related note, here are some interesting articles.

180 days of blogging

180 days of blogging

Hopefully this will be my only post about blogging. The whole point of starting this blog was to improve my writing. Hoping that some strangers will find a place in their heart to tolerate my bad writing and look beyond the obvious mistakes and understand the message I am trying to pass. Not that many strangers for the moment but the few that come along did have an opinion. As hurtful as some can be I have come to build friendships out of others. 180 days went by so fast. I still couldn't pinpoint exactly how much I improved until I went to page one and started reading.

Shut up, let me tell you my story

Shut up, let me tell you my story

Everybody wants to be a good listener. Actually, I think deep down everyone thinks they are great listeners. It is easy to pass as one, at least in theory. All you have to do is keep quiet when the other person is talking. But then they say something that you can relate to, like how they went skiing over the weekend. Now you want to tell them how you went too a couple weeks ago and that it was the biggest snow storm of the year. But you can't say it because they are still talking. You don't want to be a bad listener now do you? So you start thinking, "uhuhing", and waiting for them to finish talking so you can tell your story too. You are no longer paying attention. Just waiting for a long enough pause so you can take over the conversation.

What's your excuse

What's your excuse

I want to do so many things yet everyday I come up with a perfect excuse to sit on my behind. When I think about those excuses after the fact, they are ridiculous and I am filled with regret. There is plenty of time in a day to do all my little tasks. So today I want to permanently write them down so I can indefinitely label them as non sense.

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