"I come from the school of thought that you need to be ultra-prepared and totally understand something and perfect it before even thinking about self-promotion...But, I realized that sometimes, you just need to ship and talk about what you're doing."
I think this is completely spot on, and it took me a long time to realize it. Recently, I'd been wanting to set up continuous deployment at our shop but I didn't know exactly the right way to do it. I also didn't post larger blog posts often at the time. I finally decided I wanted to post about doing continuous deployment with jenkins and capistrano [1].
So I set about to make it work. It's not the most elegant solution, and there are at least 3 things that are suboptimal with my method that I wouldn't use for a mission critical production use case...but we're using it for our own internal apps and our website, and so we don't care that much about those suboptimal bits.
Writing a blog post about how we were doing it generated tons of traffic to our site, and it also provoked a couple of conversations whereby I figured out a couple of things to do to make my method perfect - and subsequently gives me a new blog post later to write :)
Anyway, just wanted to throw in an anecdote - definitely think too many people get buried under the weight of 'but i'm not perfect yet'
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"I come from the school of thought that you need to be ultra-prepared and totally understand something and perfect it before even thinking about self-promotion...But, I realized that sometimes, you just need to ship and talk about what you're doing."
I think this is completely spot on, and it took me a long time to realize it. Recently, I'd been wanting to set up continuous deployment at our shop but I didn't know exactly the right way to do it. I also didn't post larger blog posts often at the time. I finally decided I wanted to post about doing continuous deployment with jenkins and capistrano [1].
So I set about to make it work. It's not the most elegant solution, and there are at least 3 things that are suboptimal with my method that I wouldn't use for a mission critical production use case...but we're using it for our own internal apps and our website, and so we don't care that much about those suboptimal bits.
Writing a blog post about how we were doing it generated tons of traffic to our site, and it also provoked a couple of conversations whereby I figured out a couple of things to do to make my method perfect - and subsequently gives me a new blog post later to write :)
Anyway, just wanted to throw in an anecdote - definitely think too many people get buried under the weight of 'but i'm not perfect yet'
[1] http://isotope11.com/blog/continuous-deployment-with-capistr...