slightlymore is dead – long live slightlymore!

So it appears that my blogging activity at slightlymore has slowly but very surely ground to a halt. This wasn’t intentional – I set up the site with very specific goals; to own a website which was a great resource for developers with some great tutorials on it. I just don’t have the time to [...]

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So it appears that my blogging activity at slightlymore has slowly but very surely ground to a halt. This wasn’t intentional – I set up the site with very specific goals; to own a website which was a great resource for developers with some great tutorials on it. I just don’t have the time to write that kind of content.

I’ve thought about the purpose of the site quite a few times, and remedied the lack of posting problem by introducing new sections. But that’s not the way to save a site. It might seem like it, but it’s not. The only thing that will create is a monster of a site with no purpose which is confusing to everyone except me. What I really need to do is start again, redefine what I want the site to do for me, and build it up from there.

I have decided to make the site much less faceless and much more personal. I want to write posts about what I think, not only what I do on a day to day basis. This way, I’ll be more willing to post whatever I want instead of being constrained by the rather tight requisite of a post being useful to the developer community. Essentially what I’m saying is that I’m going to stop taking the site so seriously (in the sense of making it look like a well-respected professional resource and all that nonsense), have a bit of fun and give the site a personality more in-keeping with my own.

The good news

If you’re one of the people who comes here for development tips and tricks, I’ll still be writing them every now and again. That’s the beauty of the new ‘mission statement’, if you will. I’m redefining slightlymore as a place for me to write about things I want to write about in a way that I want to write about them and to the length which I want to write to. That means that in the long run, I will be writing more stuff. And more interesting stuff too.

Also…

Everything which has currently been written will remain here clearly labled as archived. So if you have a particular article which you find useful and refer to, you’ll still be able to get to it and use it.

You won’t see much posting over the next month or so (not much change there, eh?!) as I’m having a bit of a redesign to accommodate the new structure of the site. But rest assured, if you’re an RSS subscriber or follow me on twitter you’ll be the first to know when the new site is ready and live!

Shameless pluggery

In the mean time, if you’re looking for something to read, why not try out OxfordBloggers or Diary of Things? Go on… you know you want to ;)

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  1. Redesigning slightlymore and a fun side project at slightlymore; the blog, playground and online headspace of clinton montague on October 25, 2009

    [...] my web site, so why not make it an online representation of me. That makes sense. As mentioned in my previous post I want a place where I can write whatever I want to write, not just write about web development. [...]

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It wouldn't be right to have a web site, be a nerd, and not take this opportunity for a bit of shameless pluggery.

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I can be found fairly regularly at Oxford Geek Nights, OxTuttle and other general nerding out activities in and around Oxford.

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These posts were written at the time of writing and may not still be accurate or reflect my opinions any more. In fact, they may not even be correct or representative at the time of writing. You see, when I write, I just write. I don't do that thing which they always told you to do at school and plan what you want to write first. Because of this, there will almost certainly be a load of typos, grammar errors and incorrect facts and references. If this makes you feel queasy, I apologise that you had to get to the bottom of the page to read this, and hope that some day, you'll learn to forgive me.

What's this site?

Slightlymore started off all too formally for my liking. In the depths of the archives, you'll find tutorials. However if you read the more recent posts, you'll find them a lot more playful and about fun and interesting stuff.

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