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title: "1 year of blogging"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/9/1-year-of-blogging.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/9/1-year-of-blogging.html"
published: "2004-02-09T15:45:00"
updated: "2004-02-09T15:45:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Tomorrow will mark the 1 year anniversary of this weblog.Who knew.. A year ago I was hating my job, feeling misused and basically waiting for something to come along. It didn't come, so I had to bring it myself. This…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# 1 year of blogging

By Roy Osherove February 9, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 9, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Tomorrow will mark the 1 year anniversary of this weblog.Who knew..

A year ago I was hating my job, feeling misused and basically waiting for something to come along.

It didn't come, so I had to bring it myself. This blog made all the difference in the world for me.

Through this blog I was able to:

- Learn more information than I ever could have learned in twice this time from this amazing community
- Find new friends
- Get several job offers
- Work as a consultant all the way off in Norway
- Write articles for MSDN and [MSDNAA](http://www.msdnaa.net/)
- Invited to speak at user groups (more on this one later)

I've tried to stay true to myself and to my feelings. Yeah, sometimes I speak and find out that I was wrong, but I always try to make amends later. I beg forgiveness from anyone who'm I offended. Sorry, it was not on purpose.

Thanks for reading me. The statistics of the number of readers certainly help me to write and share more. Lately it's been a bit slow on the technical side but my promise to you is that I'll be back to more articles real soon. I might even have very exciting news in the coming weeks (No I am not taking the red pill).

Royo.

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Feb 13, 2004

    ### [New Israeli User Group: Agile Development. What do you think?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/13/new-israeli-user-group-agile-development-what-do-you-think.html)

- Feb 10, 2004

    ### [Community Application Blocks? nah](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/10/community-application-blocks-nah.html)

- Feb 8, 2004

    ### [Israel User Group news](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/8/israel-user-group-news.html)

- Feb 8, 2004

    ### [Setting the record straight on MVP newsgroups](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/8/setting-the-record-straight-on-mvp-newsgroups.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

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### Contact

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/