Keyvan Nayyeri

In a few weeks I’m going to celebrate the 4th year of Nayyeri.NET existence, but now I’m hitting another milestone and that is the 1000th post of this blog! Previously I had marked my 500th post in February 2007 before starting my military service, and now it’s very sweet to mark the 1000th post after the service when I’m passing good times of my life.

For blogs like this that have posts with the same average length, 1000th post is an important achievement, and you would believe me how difficult it can be to keep the progress with them.

When I go back and forth and recall the past 47 months, I found myself in different situations. Studying at university, the era between graduation and starting my military service, military service training, military service duty, and the past few months after the service were all important stages of my life and mostly I was under the worst possible pressure from the outside which could make real obstructs in front of me.

It’s a matter of a fact that I haven’t been as active as the first 3.5 years in the last 6 months, and there should be some reasons for it, but I guess that things will be a little better for the next few months. Some friends have been asking me why I don’t update my blog like the past while I used to update it in much more difficult situations such as my military training or the actual duty.

To be honest, after the military service many things changed in my life. I have been trying to fill in the gap that this service has put in my life, and it requires double work on my side. Moreover, our Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book faced with unexpected editorial stages and took much of my time for community activities like blogging. Additionally, I had some changes in my blogging style, and would like to focus on more technical stuff specifically general software development topics and demanded .NET development discussions such as those about ASP.NET MVC. This criteria automatically filters out other posts. After a very long time, I’ve been cancelling the publication of some posts that I’ve written recently just to hide the personal stuff and improve the relevance of content.

Putting all these logical parameters aside, I have to confess that I don’t have the old motivation for blogging and it can’t be concealed from a regular reader’s eye. As I had said before, Twitter has challenged blogging activity, and I leave some stuff to be published on my Twitter account. On the other hand, technically I’ve been moving to a higher level of knowledge and expertise that has made many of these topics pointless to me. Of course, I’m not the godhead of anything, but when you start discovering new stuff, many of the old things seem rudimentary to you. What is going to happen to me in the next few months is something much deeper than what I’m used to blog about.

Also I have to confess that for the first time in the past four years I’ve been thinking about a permanent or temporary stoppage of blogging, but still couldn’t persuade myself to do that. Happily, many good things are happening in my personal life and I’m recovering from the past three years of trouble and stress which puts me on my way to draw a better future for myself. I simply can say that I’m rolling again, and have found my pre-service personality that I really missed for a long time!

Having these said, let me spread the word for my 1000th post! Sweet days I have after a very long time!