The Hard Way

Giving Back

For a long time, I’ve toyed around with the idea of having some sort of repository for my various geek conquests. The purpose of said repository would be twofold.  First, were I ever to need to duplicate a given feat of geekery in my older, more forgetful years, I’d be able to search for how I did it the first time. Second, by posting my solutions online, where Google could find them, I’d hopefully be saving other geeks from hours of hair-pulling accompanied by statements of “I can’t believe I can’t find this answer *anywhere* on Google.” Today the era of idea-toying comes to an end, and a new age of useful answers to arcane programming questions begins.

My hope is that each time I’m programming and solve a problem that is either hard to find on Google, or not found on Google, I’ll write a post about it, including the various tags I used to search for the solution, thus making it easier for the next person to find the answer. Admittedly, I may never post again, or I may post snippets that probably could easily found elsewhere, just because I can, but hey, that’s my prerogative, right? You should just be glad I didn’t title this post “Hello World,” though I certainly came close. So there you have it: the birth of yet another half-attended programming blog on the Internet. Huzzah.