Deathmarch not over; but I’m back.

Faithful (and I know you’re faithful because you’re reading this even though it’s been six weeks since my last post) readers know I’m attempting a hat trick not unlike sticking your head in a lion’s mouth and getting it out again: write a new app for the microISV/startup community that will rock (Project X) in a language/framework I’ve never used before (Ruby on Rails).

But I’ve got an itch. And it needs scratching. Hello, my name is Bob Walsh, and I need to write.

It’s a bug I caught 30 years ago in college. Becoming a reporter didn’t cure it. Switching professions, turning in my typewriter (what’s a typewriter – don’t ask.) for a keyboard only meant my user docs and specifications read like bad Raymond Chandler mysteries (“It was a dark and stormy night. The user, his name unknown, will attempt to log into the system…”). Even writing 2 books, an ebook, moderating a great forum and writing for a major web news site only fed the addiction. So be it.

So the least I can do is try to be useful, somewhat amusing and definitely not boring while I start writing again here for microISVs (self funded software companies) and startups while I scramble to line up some more people to post here who know a hell of a lot about their topics than I do.

We’re programmers, we don’t need to sleep, right?

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