Blog Chronology
I was recently approached about programming a small app for Android. I have been following Android’s development for a while and decided this was a great opportunity to dive in and start seeing what I could do without an Android device. I haven’t done much in the way of programming for Android yet, but I’ll be sure to update when I do. In my search for information about how to get started with development for Android, I came across the Replica Island blog*.
While some blogs may have outdated early postings (who will care what I thought about Windows 7 when Windows 10 is out?), a blog devoted to one project, such as the Replica Island blog, is better read chronologically. I appreciate the default layout of placing the newest posts first for most blogs; it makes sense for the vast majority of visitors to a site. However, I haven’t seen any blogging site or software that gives the reader an option to reverse the posts and place them in chronological order easily on the main page.
In the case of a specific project blog, this is really the only order that makes sense. When I came across the Replica Island blog, I wasn’t concerned with the newest post because I wanted to read about the entire project from the beginning.
In addition to blogs devoted to a single project, I have had to emulate this feature for other blogs I enjoy reading. Before starting this blog, I decided to see how some of the bloggers I enjoy reading started off (Joel Spolsky, Jeff Atwood, Scott Hanselman). As with this blog, each of those have a front page featuring all of the posts in reverse chronological order. Instead of clicking a link that puts the posts in chronological order, I had to find the first post and work from there.
*For those interested in more about Replica Island, also see this video.
