I’m a terrible blogger. I don’t mean that the content I put out there is bad, it’s just that I rapidly lose enthusiasm for writing up something I’ve done that I find fascinating and so often just don’t write at all. It’s another reason I’ve never pursued Oracle ACE status – my lack of enthusiasm for public speaking (that makes me anxious so I know I am no good at it) and lack of published work mean it’s a non-starter.

Additionally, some of the stuff I could write about is often in tech preview release state, so I *can’t* write about it (NDAs and all that jazz). Then by the time it gets released, that interesting “feature” and workaround I developed has been ironed out and the product works just as intended. When that happens, I am basically just writing a blog post about a feature and “it works as the documentation says”. Besides, my friend Tim Hall over at oracle-base.com does a much better job of this.

However I might start doing more “shouting into the void”. Some new situations are on the horizon for this year and there’s some technologies I am getting into that I’ve not done anything with yet (python being one). Those plus more Oracle deployments into OCI/AWS/Azure will make the coming months challenging but quite exciting.