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Taxonomy of Technical Blog Posts

Posted by: Brian Gilstrap on 01/08/2010

I categorize technical blog postings into a taxonomy:

Type I: Describing how to use some kind of technology, your own or someone else's

Type II: Describing how to overcome some limitation, bug, or quirk of technology

Type III: Whining about failures to get one or more technologies to work (together)

Type IV: Crowing about getting one or more technologies to work (together) - often a follow-up to a Type III posting

Type V: Indulging in a post that really doesn't belong in a technical blog.

For a classic example of a Type II posting, see:

http://codetojoy.blogspot.com/2010/01/grails-tip-for-internet-connections.html

Brian Gilstrap's complete blog can be found at: http://viewfromthefringe.blogspot.com/

About Brian Gilstrap

Brian Gilstrap is a Principal Software Engineer at Object Computing, Inc. where he has spent the last eleven of his 20+ years in the industry. In those years, he has worked with many languages and many technologies. He writes and blogs frequently, and has been on the steering committee of the St. Louis Java User's Group more than a decade. With OCI he provides consulting to companies in many industries and countries, and develops & delivers training courses for Washington University's Center for Applied Information Technology.

Brian has a passion for building software that is easy to use and robust while still meeting the rapid development requirements in today's industry. He has expertise in distributed systems, object oriented analysis and design, secure computing, and many languages and frameworks.

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