Introductory Lockergnome Post

Well, my existing blog just isn’t making money (And officially, let’s say I want to be part of a community), so I figured I’d start one on Lockergnome, despite it running Wordpress, a blogging platform created in PHP by open-source hippies. But we won’t talk about that. I will continue running my existing blog on my own domain, hosted from my own physical server. However, I’ll also be posting here with any content I come up with that I think will reap the GoogleJuice.

I really shouldn’t knock the open-source hippies too much. I actually ran a WordPress blog long ago. I ran it on my own shared server (Though that one wasn’t running at home), so nobody could tell me what to and not to post. Then I finally got sick of WordPress and wrote my own blogging engine (See aforementioned links).

What turned me away from WordPress? It’s PHP, so it comes with a poor syntatic structure and no code-behind capabilities (Not to mention there’s no framework whatsoever). Additionally, I didn’t feel like learning a whole new language while I was already learning C# and ASP.NET at the time. Thus was born v2 of my blog, Maximum Verbosity (Thusly named MV2).

 MV3 is my current version (Same link), and I’m currently rewriting it as MV4 (Though I’m calling it Z-Index 255, a reference to being the most visible thing out there).

The plan is to create additional income through Google AdSense. My understanding is that Lockergnome gets an immense amount of traffic, and that’s why their adsense supposedly brings in lots more than the AdSense running on my own site (Which is slim pickin’s).

Who am I? I’m a Senior Applications Developer II for one of the largest Telecomms in the world. Which one? It’s not really a secret, but I choose not to disclose that publically in order to ensure that my opinions and expressions are not mistaken for my employer’s. Suffice it to say I work and code in these technologies: ASP.NET 2.0, C#, VB.NET, AJAX, and Transact-SQL. I also use some HTML and JavaScript, but those standards are so De Facto they’re hardly worth mentioning.

The webservers my code runs on, both at work and at home, run a basic Microsoft server configuration:
Windows Server 2003 SP2
IIS
SQL Server 2000 (Work)
SQL Server 2005 (Home)

I code my own Stored Procedures and websites, though I get some help at work from my buddy/roommate/co-worker (who we’ll just call J). I help him too sometimes, as two minds are better than one.

So come on back here from time to time. You’ll have some laughs, maybe learn something, and help me make money.