First Post!

You can see his name listed on your WordPress sidebar. He is one of the most important person in WordPress. He also take some good photographs. He is Donncha. He first wrote his entry titled Intro on January 1, 1998. Holy Shmoly! :)

I still remember seeing the intro to Microprose Soccer way back in 1989. I can’t even remember who coded the crack intro now, but it and the other intros I saw that year and later gave me the inspiration to try my hand at the amazing graphical effects that were being done. The irony is that a lot of the intros were techologicaly more advanced and better looking than many of the games at the time.

About two and a half years ago I first stumbled across a free version of Unix called Linux. At the time I installed it, a friend of mine installed it to do some mud coding, but we were working on limited hardware. I had a 2 speed CDROM which wasn’t supported (Win95 didn’t either, so naaahhh! :)
It didn’t last long on my system but then RedHat 4.1 was given away on a magazine cover and I installed it on my new P133 and I haven’t looked back since. I’m downloading
Star Office in college right now and it’ll hopefully be finished by the time I get into college on Monday. Once that’s installed the only reason I’ll have to run Win95 is Quake2, and once a bug fixed version of that game is released for Linux.. the sky’s the limit :)

The attitude in the Linux community is to share and spread your source code so others can contribute and help make your programs better. It works too. Take a look at The Cathedral and the Bazaar for an insight into this mindset and a different way of developing software.

Unfortunetly the demo scene is nothing like this. Although there’s a huge amount of documentation on demo effects, with plenty of source code, it’s a much more competitive environment to be active in. Source code for demos is rarely released, and coders jealously guard their work. The demo scene of course doesn’t lend itself easily to the Linux/Free Software philosophy, but it could.

This site is going to be all about code, algorithms, tools, compilers & cross-compilers, innovative ideas, and more.

Initially I’ll give you links to my favourite sites on the ‘net for coding and most of them will be directed more towards Linux/Unix than DOS/Windows. Thankfully there has been a major effort on the part of Linux coders to create portable code and apps so there should be something for everyone here.

UPDATE: So I e-mailed Donncha myself and got a reply. I think I should do this more often to other people so I can know more than what’s on their blogs. Here’s his email.

Hey Eric,

First off, “Donncha” is the Irish for “Dennis”, and I’m very much a guy. I really should put a small pic online because others have queried that too!

Feel free to link to that post. Although my first (surviving) site is at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/6547/index2.html which was last modified in 1997 apparently!

I’ll look forward to seeing your firstpost about my first post :)

Donncha.

Firda is an Indonesian who now live in Canada. Her blog has won several Bloggies Awards in the past. But what I admire the most from her is that she came from zero blogging experience but look at her now. That was an amazing development of a person and it should give a boost of motivation for new bloggers. She wrote her first post amazingly on February 20, 2000. No post title, no comment section, this must be the old blogger.com. Who is the first Indonesian blogger?

You see, I’m a web geek wannabe. I noticed that most real web geeks have a blogger.com account, so I decided to get myself one too just so that people would think I’m a real geek. I know, I’m pathetic. But I really, really want to be a geek. Will you teach me how to be one? Is there some kind of a dress code or something? I’m clueless, as ever.

Silvia Hendarta, usually known as Sisil, can be considered as one of the first Indonesian blogger. She is also among the few Indonesian who wrote her entries in English. Aside from being a blogger, she is also a graphic/product designer. And a good photographer too. Her first post titled First Post dated back to 9 November 2001. Even among the international bloggers, that date is incredibly old. I think she could be one of the first to blog.

Trying this out. Posting thoughts on the net – interesting concept. I’m too lazy even to keep a written journal – wonder how longl I will be posting things here?

Thanks to Sisil for giving us the link to her first post.

Joichi Ito or Joi Ito, is the most famous Japanese Blogger who writes the entries in both of English and Japanese. He’s also a chairman of Six Apart. When I digged into his entries, the oldest post I’ve found is belong to the year 2003. Exactly on 1st July 2003 1993 (thanks for the correction, Joi!), which title is Howard Mentioned me in Wired!. Is there any blogging tools twelve years ago? Hm…I don’t think so. I just don’t know.

A flattering article in Wired from 1993. Actually, Cyrus read this article and emailed me. He introduced me to the rest of the initial Eccosys team… So it all kind of started with this article

He is one of the most popular marketer in the world. He author some of the best marketing books. He released some e-books for free lately. And he has a blog! He is Seth Godin. The oldest post I can find was a post titled Boring on January 15, 2002.

I was stranded today. I had to spend hours in Nyack, just over the border from New Jersey, so I shopped. Actually, I TRIED to shop, but I failed. I spent two hours at the mall, and it was boring.

Having done most of my shopping online lately, I’d nearly forgotten how boring it is. Every merchant alive needs to read Paco Underhill’s book, Why We Buy.

The only store I saw that didn’t bore me was the new Apple store. If you haven’t been, it’s worth a visit. Sure, it will be boring soon too. That’s because our tastes evolve faster than retailers allow their stores to.

Khaled Abou Alfa is the author of Broken Kode. Together with some nice people, he collaborate on project Shuttle for WordPress. His first post was on January 4, 2004 titled A New Thought…

Woke up this morning without much of a plan. Usually my sundays are filled with something to do. Today however I wanted a small break from the constant thought that I’ve engulfed myself into the past 2 weeks. This is all due to my book. I have a new found appreciation for well written stories in whatever form they may come. It’s really hard work getting a 150 page graphic novel written. Am I close to the mark? No way. I’ve gotten 40 pages done. 2 weeks 40 pages. This I might add is the third draft. Oh yeas, I’ve got another 2 drafts one which reached a total of 55 pages written and I just scrapped it there and then. Didn’t think twice although had an unbelievable weekend trying to not call myself a complete and utter failure.

The work however will speak for itself, as the story I’ve got now is a lot tighter. What makes me wonder is that I know for a fact that the story will twist and change and evolve into something much more in the weeks to come. It will be better the more I think about it the more I analyse it. So I’m not too upset about the fact that I didn’t meet my deadline. I always blow deadlines anyway.

My next headache came in the form of my discared website that’s been sitting there doing nothing for a while now. Ive been pretty bad for it the last couple of months, but hopefully that should all change in the coming weeks.

I must say I’m pretty proud of how quickly I was able to whip this site together, hell I only thought about sorting out a blog earlier this morning, a true testament to the greatness that is blogger.

When I woke up this morning I didn’t have a blog. Now I do. It’s going to change a great deal in the days to come as I’ve only started scratching the surface of this thing, but here’s hoping it’s a fun experience.

The freqency with which I handle this is all dependant on a few things. Currently I’ve been writing my story and the cogs have been set in motion that will hopefully get it published later on this year. For those that know me, understand what this means to me, I suppose it’s also clear now why I had to learn web design since this is going to be a predominantly web based promotional effort.

Welcome to the start of my dreams becoming a reality. Welcome to my first year actively trying to get published.

If you are WordPress user or you have a WordPress.com account, you must be familiar with her amazing theme called Almost Spring. Her real name is Becca Wei and Beccary is her blog’s name. Testing is Becca’s first post which was posted on 24th December 2003.

Testing, testing, 1, 2 3, testing.

Overheard in New York is maintained by S. Morgan Friedman as publisher and Michael Malice as editor. They were named as one of Times Magazine 50 coolest websites in 2005. This weblog is simply all about people’s conversation in public. Anybody can submit an entry by sending email containing your (brief) transcript to the editors for consideration. I don’t know exactly when they began their very first post, but it might be Change Your Brain on 23rd July 2003.

Seen reading in the Starbucks in the Barnes & Noble on Union Square: a man in his mid-20s reading a book titled, Change your brain, Change your life

Jeffrey Veen is the author of some web design books. Have you ever read his book “The Art & Science of Web Design”? Well this time we’ll see his very first post ever. The date is 11 October 2002. The title is Defining What We Do.

It seems we’re never quite done when it comes to developing definitions for our vocabulary in this industry. I’m getting kind of tired of the debate, frankly — I’d rather focus on how to do this stuff, when it’s appropriate, and why it’s important at all. That said, I was impressed by Peter’s comments in the latest Digital Web Magazine. Meryl interviewed him along with old friend Nathan Shedroff on the subject of what, exactly, do we mean when we talk about User Centered design.

If you are hungry readers or newbie bloggers who want to find and dig some of good contents in the world wide web out there, then you should go to 9 Rules Network. It’s a huge place where magnificent bloggers like: Garret Dimon, Molly, Girlspoke’s girls, and many more sharing all their energies right there. Now, we’re going back to 14th April 2005, when 9rules blog is their first post.

What would 9rules be without it’s own blog? That’s a question that’s been far overdue an adequate solution. So, we’ve combined the elegant creativity of Mr. Rundle with the stellar power of WordPress to bring you the 9rules blog.
The blog’s purpose

We’re working hard to build the 9rules network, and every day we get closer to release. However, this does not mean that we do not want all of you to be involved, nor do we think that our methods are perfect. From time-to-time you will see entries on this blog dealing with decisions that we’ve made along the way. Entries very similiar to Mike’s logo entry which generated much value-added feedback, which helps us to make our work better. We appreciate your feedback, and hopefully this blog will allow your voice to be heard.
Why WordPress?

WordPress’ powerful theme architecture and plugin API gives us the ability to not only build a powerful blog, but to empower an entire Network – as you’ll soon see. WordPress is not just for blogs anymore. We’re utilizing some of the very latest features available in WordPress Strayhorn (1.5) to build the 9rules network – a platform which will drive blogging and Weblog networks to the next level.