Development Diary

A development diary is a personal account of work done on a job/project.
This can be kept in a text document, posted on the gdt forum or a weblog/blog

Benefits of keeping a development diary

• Learn from your mistakes - Avoid making the same mistakes over and over
• Build a portfolio - Useful to have all examples of your work in one place
• Show off your problem solving ability and initiative to employers
• Ego boosting - See your development and skills grow over time

Blogs are very quick and easy to set up!

• All the underlying code is already written for you, all you need to do is make the posts
• If you already have a google account (eg. Gmail) you can make a blogger blog in literally 30-40 seconds (This is no exaggeration)
• Potential to monetise blogs - If your blog receives a lot of traffic (eg. People looking for programming solutions) it's possible to earn quite a bit of cash from banner ads.
• WordPress has native support for blocks of code (Allowing special characters to be inserted into a post) even gives your sample code line numbers!

Free blogging websites and blog software:

Blogger (Free Hosting)
LiveJournal (Free Hosting)
WordPress (Free Hosting)