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1st Anniversary

Happy Anniversary Balloon Bouquet 1st AnniversaryThe Integration Engineer has been on-line for a whole year now, and I feel like it is time to look back and take stock of what I set out to do here, and what happened to that vision.  So today I am departing from my normal task of writing integration tips, tutorials, and experiences and am going to talk about this blog itself.

Starting out over a year ago, I started toying with the idea of going on-line and starting a blog.  I saw other people doing this and read some of their stories of how they got started.  I toyed with doing something on one of my hobbies, but settled on the area that I knew the most about, and that would be integration engineering.  I did some additional research and picked a hosting provider and a blog platform that seemed to be the easiest to work with.  I settled on wordpress as there seemed to be the most support for this and everyone seemed to be talking about it.  (And I just wanted to write, not learn a new EAI) (more…)

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009