sBlogIt! Version 2 Is Officially Signed Off As Done!
The long, hard slog is over. I've finished what I call the Test, Tweak and Twiddle phase of sBlogIt! V2 and I'm very pleased to sign off my upgraded done-for-you blogging platform as completed, once and for all ... sBlogIt! my thoughts flow, Words dancing on the screen, A digital world Let me tell you a little of the history of sBlogIt! (what I call sBlogIt! Classic) It all started back in 2011 when a small business owner I knew asked if I would blog for her business. I'd written a simple blogging system for myself when I was in the USA, and continued in one form or another when I returned to the UK and was doing rock photography, so talking about the gigs I attended and including photos. It was awesome that she saw the potential of what I was doing, and even more so when she offered me money!At the time, I was working on a long-term web project for a company which I'd actually finished, but they then made unreasonable demands on me to create the next version, which was actually a complete ground-up rewrite that I wasn't prepared to do. I'd already been contracting for them for 3 years, it was time to move on. I quit my contract and used my savings to fund myself while I developed the early version of sBlogIt! Classic. I started networking, met other business owners, and they saw the potential of what I was doing as well, so I added more and more subscribers, then built in more features like social sharing and blog mailers. I was very happy with my platform and just used it for the next decade because it just worked! I'd reached 25 subscribers (5 blog posts per day) before the pandemic hit us and shut everything down. I'd been working more and more with Artificial Intelligence and having to use external AI platforms, create stuff, then bring it into sBlogIt! for inclusion in my subscribers' blog posts was time-consuming and a real pain. After a conversation with my mum (yes, mum - I'm giving you credit for that final push I needed), I started working on V2 at the end of February. As with all my web projects, I tend to 'plug myself into the matrix' and just code and code and code until it's done. My bestie didn't see me for weeks on end, I never bothered changing out of my pyjamas, I ate a lot of junk food and chocolate and just got on with it. It's how I've worked for decades, though now I'm older I can't pull all-nighters anymore, I need to remember to move around regularly or my right knee will seize up, and I do need to stop coding at least 3 hours before bedtime or my brain won't stop churning and it takes ages for me to fall asleep. But now it's done. Developed, tested, tweaked |
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