Ian Landsman is Starting From Scratch, August 30, 2005:
Too Tired to Blog
If you're in the market for a powerful and user friendly Help Desk solution, please take a look at my company's flagship product HelpSpot.I've been working 16 hour days for the past few weeks and it's just making me too darn tired to blog. I have a big blog post in my head, but my fingers just won't type the words. So to keep it simple, just go check out Paul's new ISV. In short I like the idea. Everyone has been spending so much time saying we don't need anymore CMS's for that past few years that I think now we actually do.
Also my wife says my posts are full of poor grammar and sentence fragments lately. Hopefully you can all forgive me!
Discussion
I have a folder 'blog" in my laptop for possible blog posts. Everytime I think of something to write, I launch Notepad and just write "without thinking". Usually, I end up with 2 to 3 bullets only. So if I am in the mood for writing, I look for a post that interests me then I proceed. The drawback is that my blog folder ends up with too many files. Sometimes when I read a post, I can't figure out what I am trying to say or why I wrote it.
Created by Greg Moreno on 08.30.2005 11:08 pm
Paul is a man after my own heart. Much of what I am working on is based on the idea of simplifying and hopefully beautifying existing ideas that have been around but not designed so much for ease of use as they are for hardcore functionality. I can see the benefit of what he is doing.
I recently blogged a bit about my own experiences with an 'over the top' CMS called Zope CMS. I have developed at least 8 separate content management systems so when I was asked to work with Zope by a client who was developing his own server management, I was hit hard by a feeling that I was going about things all wrong. I mean 8 custom systems that could easily have more thought put into them to make them reusable, modular, powerful enough to handle the basic things that my clients wanted but keep them simple enough for computer newbies to use without much learning. I know I could save myself a lot of headaches if I found or built a system that gives me as the developer enough control to make the admins look custom and give only the control a client needs while keeping their end simple. It sure beats having to re-tool some manager that I made for 1 client and make it work for another clients needs. In fact, most of my time get eaten up by doing this kind of repetitive programming where I only have a few libraries that I made truly reusable. Zope is nice in the power it provides and is pretty quick to bang out a large site but is way to complicated for me to pass off to Joe Shmoe from the auto detailing company down the road. Bad example but you know what I mean.
To me the sites like Blogger are basically CMS's that are made easy for personal sites. Granted, that lacks the ability to really control some things like navigation and custom designs and such unless you have a good knowledge of html/css and how to work around some scripts Blogger throws in.
I feel bad, I had an old machine that I let me kid use to play games since he sees me on here all the time. I had a ton of files I left on there that I created much like Greg does except I didn't know what a blog was when I wrote them up so I never got to share them with anyone. Most of it was entrepreneur, business start-up related except for some that were about the "Wiz Kid Complex", as I call it, about overcoming the self-doubt that can consume a guy going from a young smart kid who knows everything and has no fear of failure to an over tired adult with kids and the realization that your no longer the young genius as much as just a dime a dozen developer (or so it feels).
I wiped the machine out and put Fedora Redhat on it the other day thinking there was probably nothing on there worth saving. Would have been nice to share my original thoughts before time currupted what my views were when I wrote them. I'm sure rewriting what I remember wouldn't do the topics justice to it's best just to move on.
Created by Collin on 08.30.2005 11:08 pm
That's a good idea Greg. I sort of use Wordpress's ability to save drafts in a similar fashion. I have 3-4 half done long articles in there, but just can't get them done. Hopefully in October.
I wouldn't stress it Collin, you just have to start fresh. Take some of these long comments and whip them up into posts. I've been subscribed to your blog and I'm not seeing any action over there, let's get moving!
Created by Ian on 08.30.2005 11:08 pm
Lol, Yeah I thought about that. Didn't mean to get so wordy but it's my nature. I just spent a few hours installing and uninstalling a trackback service into Blogger and now I have serious doubts that I am using the right blog solution. I've looked at some better solutions but lack the time to mess with it right now.
(Whatever I did has triggered a huge surge in spam posts this AM! ARG.)
I think your the only person subscribed to my blog. No big deal since I just started. I plan on taking some advice you gave me before about sharing details of my donor software. I still need to work out a problem of legal ownership first though since that a project started with partners and now I have reclaimed the software but the business and trademarks are in my ex-partners name at the moment.
I'll have some new posts pretty soon. Hopefully more interesting then the 'Global Reset Button'. lol.
Created by Collin on 08.30.2005 11:08 pm
Heh.
Yeah I would get off blogger if I were you. If you want a hosted solution maybe try Typepad.
Created by Ian on 08.30.2005 11:08 pm
My First Mention
I debated saying anything about this since it will make me look like a total n00b, but here it is anyway. Last night I got my first mention by another blogger! Ian Landsman mentioned me in this short post. Thanks
Created by Paul Explains Nothing on 08.30.2005 11:08 pm
Damn, I know I need to get the hell away from blogger but my latest post explains why that probably isn't going to happen this month.
Paul, congrats. Keep the content coming, I have you right under Ian on my Google home page.
Created by Collin on 08.30.2005 11:08 pm
Too tired to blog.... At least your wife allows you to work 16 hours days! 
Keep at it, you're almost ready to launch!
Created by Michael Sica on 08.30.2005 11:08 pm
Allows me? More like forces me at this point 
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Created by Ian on 08.30.2005 11:08 pm