Here it is.

I’m Shane Dowling. I work as a Software Engineer and have done so for the last year. I graduated from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland in 2008.

In 2008 I was handed the technical lead role of a web-based SAAS help-desk tool. As such it has forced me to move from a crappy out of college coder to a fully fledged software engineer at a pretty fast rate.

I don’t know if I’m experienced enough to say I’m reasonably experienced in anything software related, but if I am reasonably experienced in anything it’s web development.

Why blog?

Same as everyone else, mostly for selfish reasons. As I said, I’m progressing out of the “hack it till it works” mindset. I have no qualms about this, in fact in terms of time why would anyone write code any other way in college? College isn’t challenging you to write robust readable quality code(it’s likely no-one will read it), it challenges you in the tasks you undertake to solve with the code. So my current goal with this blog is to catalogue random insights into a range of topics around that subject. It may extend to other fields but this is the initial plan.

For my own sanity I will probably disable all hit counters etc. If no-one ever reads this, I’d be last that wants to know.