About this blog
It has been a while testing out and developing this experiment. This site has evolved slightly but why does it exist?
My documentation
I have an RSS reader, I have 56 subscriptions as of today, but I have no place to collect the links. There are a couple sites online that would provide that service but I think it is important to share with the campus community in the context of campus university web development.
Plus this is a decent platform to share ideas and allow for feedback. If any of my ramblings inspire just one person, great.
Education
Universities are a place of learning. The majority of my day is spent reading stuff about web stuff so why not try and share my take with those who don’t have time? If you disagree there is a place to comment and have your opinion recorded. In fact I encourage disagreement… there is no way I am right all the time.
Through using this technology I learn more about PHP and the applications created for specific purposes. In this case it’s blogging software. It is my hope to open this up to a larger group of writers in the future.
Use of space
UW’s home of web development resources is web.uwaterloo.ca and for some time it was a place to store ideas. UW development page should be dedicated to tutorials, howto’s, and standards. This site is dedicated to collaboration, information sharing, and posting the more abstract issues surrounding web development at a university. Who knows, it could end up in a book some day 
I hope you enjoy this blog and participate in discussion. For the nit-pickers: this site does use the standard XHTML layout being proposed and utilizes a custom CSS to get this look. No real tricks as yet.