DragoÈ™ ROUÄ‚Â (LinkedIn) said, at a recent conference (Follow-up: Paul RENAUD and DragoÈ™ ROUA: “Lessons in generating top line revenues and personal branding” (MBA Masterclass by Maastricht School of Management Romania, 2012.10.02): Olivian BREDA) suggested (approximate quote):
- Bloggers should write timeless content on their blogs.
I like the thought a lot. I try to obey the rule, to some extend.
You cannot do that. At least not when writing about certain topics. I’m thinking about starting a coding blog and this is one thing that I’m certainly not going to attempt to achieve with it. Because things change and they change really fast.
I did really cool stuff in PHP in 2010. For that time. Now some of the functions I used back then are deprecated. I was starting to use CSS3 features in 2010. Back then, I made sure I was including prefixed versions of properties everywhere. Now this isn’t needed anymore for properties like
border-radiusorbox-shadow. When I first started using media queries, I didn’t find a single article on the web that would explain that zooming will make the site look like crap if I usepx-based ones instead ofem-based ones. So yeah, I’ve made that mistake…If I google for something specific connected to web development, I will ignore any result that’s more than a year old, because I don’t want to count on something that may not be up-to-date.
Yes, a lot of stuff on technology is going to be “yesterday’s news” very soon.
On the other hand, DragoÈ™ writes about self -development, having motivation, being a better person. For these, you might as well read Greek classics, they’re still current.
Thank you for the kind comment.