Hey guys,
Goodnight!
How are you?

In this commemorative post, I would like to say a huge thank you to you, who follow my posts, comment, share, like... It was thanks to you that I managed to reach 100 THOUSAND VIEWS (considering only the home page and the posts).

100 mil visualizações pageviews
100 thousand pageviews

It may not seem like a big deal, but reaching this number with a technical IT blog, talking practically only about the database and a little development, without any advertising or paying for Adwords is very difficult.

I started writing here on 06/05/2014, just over 2 years ago, where I made several posts about PHP and Oracle. After that, I didn't post anything for 5 months and in November 2014 I started writing again, which was when I started dedicating myself to the blog, and the number of visits gradually grew every month 🙂

A lot of people ask me why I “waste time” writing on the blog, since “I don’t gain anything from it”. The answer to that is this:

  • For each post I make, I generally invest between 30 mins and 1 hour studying more about the subject and specializing in what I'm going to write, and generally around 2 hours (there have been posts that took much longer than that... lol) between creating the content, testing (yes, I test every command and every query I post here), organizing the information and “perfumes” to make the posts pleasant to view. With all this effort, I always stay updated and studying, always motivated to learn more and more.
  • Many times I read and learn about something interesting on other blogs and I don't think it was explained well, because I had to read several other sites to fully understand a resource or technology, so that's when I see an opportunity to write about something cool that could perhaps have more didactic content for those who would like to learn too.
  • Teaching and teaching has always been a passion for me. It's very rewarding when you help someone take the first steps in their career and then follow their growth and evolution, witnessing the birth of an excellent professional.
  • It is necessary to leave individuality aside and live a philosophy of community and information sharing. Nowadays I can clearly see that around 80% of all the technical knowledge I acquired throughout my career was through forums, Stackoverflow, Blogs, etc. And that is precisely why IT has evolved in the last 15 years, what other areas generally take 100, 200, 1,000 years to achieve. The profile of an IT professional is that of people who like to share knowledge, post innovative solutions to frequent problems, seek improvements in processes, try to create new ways of achieving a goal, innovate, create, improve. This is only possible because there are people who have the idea of ​​sharing information.
  • I remember it as if it were yesterday, when I started programming on mIRC at the age of 12, in 1999, and creating my own script (older ones will understand... lol), where you could create screens and various resources using a language similar to C++ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC_scripting_language). At the age of 15, I was already creating several applications in Visual Basic 6 and Delphi 7 for managing Windows configurations, Multimedia Player (I'll make a post about it later... lol) and several others. All of this was only possible because there were several people on the Internet teaching how to program.
  • In addition to all this, I ended up becoming a “professional” on the WordPress platform, acquiring a lot of knowledge of best practices, editing themes and plugins, and since then I have managed to work on some Web Development work using this platform, which has made the delivery of these projects much faster, the clients have been very satisfied and this experience has been really cool 🙂

So guys, this post was more of a thank you, in which I got excited and ended up telling you a little about how my passion for programming began. My tip for you is to gather courage, create your blog or publish on LinkedIn to share your professional experiences, innovative things that you know how to do. IT needs this to continue evolving.

If you are not in the habit of sharing knowledge, stop inertia and start writing now. You will see how accomplished you will feel with it and how much you will learn. Believe me: You will feel great when you read a comment from someone saying that they managed to solve a problem thanks to your post.

Once again, thank you for your visit.
Hugs and see you in the next post!