I need a clever title

I rather wish I had some witty title, but my usually unending source of cheap punnies is empty. Thus, we shall get down to business. There are two posts that all good geek blogs need.

1. Hello World
2. A description of what we are doing here.

The first is absolutely critical. After-all, everyone knows the ONLY way to experiment with new technology is to make it say Hello World.

Wikipedia: Hello World

Fortunately, or not, I wrote that post nearly a month ago and it is too soon for a Hello World II.

So, this is the latter necessary post. What are we doing here? Frankly, I don’t really know. In a nutshell, I guess I started this for three reasons.

1. Writing a blog via GitHub / Markdown seemed like too much fun to pass up.
2. I need a place to put some training materials I want to develop.
3. Surely I have SOMETHING of interest to say. Even if absolutely nobody reads it.

Point # 2 is really the most important. There is an internal-facing blog for the New York State Department of Health. On it, I intend to post some materials and documentation. But, writing posts through the web interface is PAINFUL. And, although I am only a second-rate HTML developer (at my best) this is much easier and I can get nicer looking results.

I can use the internal blogging tools to link to my posts and materials here. It is reasonable to assume most of the discussion will happen internally too although I would like to use Disqus as soon as I figure it all out.

In the meantime, I guess I should go think relationally. I have some SQL stuff I need to start writing down.

–andy