Comments on: Another year has passed by…

By: h0bbel

h0bbel — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:08:21 +0000

You, and this site, has been a great inspiration for many, myself included.

I can hardly disagree with anything of what you are saying, especially the fact that blogging actually is work. Hard work at that, at least when you try to have a life and a family outside of your “professional” life.

I remember when aa href=”http://h0bbel.p0ggel.org/vmtn-and-9rules”>my own site was added to v12n in 2006, and when VMware managed to do a “Thank you, Europe” at VMworld Europe 2007. To bad I let my site and contents slip a bit since then, but I’m back now though.

By: Virtualpro

Virtualpro — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:23:31 +0000

Great article Duncan! I have to admit your blog and those of the likes of eric sloof, Jason boche, etc was one of the main reasons I got into blogging myself. I even remember you giving me encouragement in the early days by posting comments on my site. It is a hard slog sometimes finding the time, but at the same time it’s so rewarding. I’ve challenged myself and forced myself to learn about the features i write about. I just hope that one day it may lead to a similar success story as the one you’ve just told!

Keep up the good work Duncan!

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:09:51 +0000

Very informative for those thinking about getting started.

There are lots of different things I’d like to blog about, but I decided to stay focused on the same area which I cover in my day job — makes producing content much easier.

Thanks for the inspiration.

Eric

By: Sven Huisman

Sven Huisman — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:23:11 +0000

Thanks Duncan for this great post. I agree 100% with the things you mention. Keep up the good work.

By: Cody Bunch

Cody Bunch — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:00:32 +0000

Thanks for the great post, and for sticking around. You’ve hit the nail on the head with all of the above. Your ability to get back into the disciplined parts after something like VMworld is more than impressive.

By: esloof

esloof — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:19:23 +0000

I knew I spotted this Duncan guy in the early days. In fact, it was 9 days after his launch.

27 december 2007 – Yellow Bricks is online – http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/317-Yellow-Bricks-is-online.html

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:27:56 +0000

Hi Duncan, great article and great accomplishment!

We started out own blog (www.VMGuru.nl) less than a year ago and I totally agree with you on personal development and improvement on technical skills, knowledge and expertise.

I can also confirm your popularity based on your blogging. A few weeks ago a neighbor and good friend came to me, all exited. ‘Do you know who’s visiting us next week?’ He asked me. ‘Duncan Epping!’ He was on cloud nine, like Barack Obama was visiting him.

And in my opinion there’s another advantage to blogging. While sharing your knowledge and experience you can easily come in contact with other bloggers and great minds in the VMware community like yourself, Scott Lowe, Scott Herold, Mike Laverick, Jason Boche, Eric Sloof, Gabrie van Zanten. The VMware community is already very open but this make it much easier.

So Duncan, keep up the good work and just ignore my, ’sorry I read the wrong post’, comments

By: kamalanathan natesan

kamalanathan natesan — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:42:10 +0000

Duncan,
Hats off to you and to your family !!(without their support you cant do this)

I was a silent reader of your blog. per day i used to signin to yellow-bricks twice and enjoy the reading…

Thnks for motivating..and keep endorsing.,

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:12:10 +0000

Writing skills will definitely improve over time. I started doing this, writing in English, roughly 12 / 14 years ago and it helped me improve my English a lot.

thanks for the compliments and feedback!

By: Vladan

Vladan — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:36:01 +0000

Duncan, I agree 200% with all you said about blogging here.

At the beginning I started to run my website just to remember stuff and have my “how-to aarticles in one place. But soon it took another dimension….. The Virtual One…

Also beeing corrected my articles in comments by other fellow bloggers helped me to grow…

Thanks Duncan

Hany Michael: My most read article took me the whole week-end to write…. -:)With all the screenshots…. Yes if you want to write TOP level articles with a real value in it, then You must take the time to do it… and afterwards your readers will let you know that that particular article is good.(or not)..-:)

Agree for non native english speaking writers… -:)