I have had two experiences with blogs in the past (both of them with posts in Portuguese only).
The first one was when I was fooling around with the idea of starting a company to develop software and provide training and consulting on Java (the platform, not the island). A friend of mine also wrote to this blog, which presented tips and tutorials on Java technologies we were using at that time. Once I began my Masters course the blog faded out.
The second one was after I came to live in Trento, Italy to take a PhD course. This time I used my personal home page (at the time still using Drupal as a CMS) and the posts were a means to send news to my family and friends: I could include pictures and stuff and I had to write only once and everyone could read it. After a while it was taking too much of my time to write the posts, so I decided to just upload pictures to social networks like Facebook and have them and their captions tell the news to everyone.
Now I have just found another reason to write blog posts. Since I’m active in the Java community, making material available here in my personal website and also writing articles to Java magazines in Brazil, once every few days I get an e-mail with questions about the stuff that I wrote. So far I’ve been able to answer to all the e-mails that I get, but the answer goes just to the person who asked, whereas more people may benefit from it.
Therefore, I’ve decided that every time I get a question to which the answer is not extremely simple, I will blog about it and send the link to whoever asked it. That way it may help other people and in the eventual case I get similar questions, I can reuse my answers!
Since I usually get these questions from people in Brazil, the posts will be written in Portuguese. If you find a post that interests you and you can’t make sense of it in Portuguese, drop me a line and if I have time I could translate it to English or Italian, the two other languages I can speak.
That being said, welcome to my third blog attempt! May it last as long as it is useful!