The Past

I started this blog just over 10 years ago. The original purpose was twofold, firstly to have a digital version of all the programming notes collected over the previous 15 years while developing applications in classic ASP, VB6 and then later in VB/ASP.Net back when the .Net Framework was new. I had built a habit of keeping a note of any code I found useful. A lot of the notes were either printed copies of code I had written for an application or snippets of code I had written in an A5 ring bound pad sporting a blue denim cover. Even today I still have that same pad with the many folded A4 printed sheets stuffed in the front, although none of it is relevant to modern technologies or languages I currently use today I keep it for nostalgia as part of my career history. The second reason for starting the blog was to record and share programming notes for new technologies as and when I learn them going forward. I needed making notes to be easy to do, easy to access, easy to search and something that was minimal or even no cost. Although there are so, so many options that fit the criteria I was sold on choosing WordPress for two main reasons, it was free to get started and it was easy to use.

Right at the beginning I came up with the name DotNetable (as in .Net able) which made a lot of sense to me as I was a developer, primarily using and blogging about Microsoft coding and technologies. Originally the domain dotnetable[dot]com was purchased and the site run under that domain for a while. At some point the registration was not renewed by myself so it has acquired a new owner.

Everything started out well enough and met the intended purposes. World domination was never the focus so I have never actively promoted the blog myself. There have been a few occasions where I may have given a developer colleague the link to a post that helps them with something they are working on, but nothing more.

It has been a little over 5 years since the last post was published. Although it goes without saying (oh I can’t help myself) “A lot has happened in that time”. There has been, and continues to be, a number of advancements in many areas of Robotics and AI. Generative AI being the big talking point of the last couple of years. There have been numerous advancements by Microsoft in cloud computing with Azure and their development tools with the recent release of C# 12 and .Net 8.

The Present

Even though there have been no new posts in 5 years the site is still has an average of 40 views per day. I realise that is not a lot, but people are still visiting. A famous line from the 1989 film The Field of Dreams comes to mind “If you build it, he will come.” 

The site is already had some changes.  As the previously mentioned domain is no longer available new domain has been registered and linked to the site. The theme has been changed.

The Future. The road ahead?

The plan is simple, to be making notes like I was originally for my own reference and for the benefit of anyone else who happens to find themselves on the site (but mainly mine).  There are number of topics I intend to learn/practise including but not limited to,

• General Machine Learning/ML.Net
• AI
• .Net 8
• C#
• Azure
• Devops
• Design Patterns
• Software Principles e.g. SOLID
• Useful nuget packages.
• etc…..

Pretty much anything in any way related to software development for example

• Python
• Raspberry Pi/Arduino
• SQL
• Javascript
• etc…..

So there we have it. I look forward to seeing you soon….