Circle of Interest

An entry about this and that Publication date 14. May 2008 14:25

So there's this meme going around where you make a nice color-coded presentation of what you're interrested in (within the context of being a developer). Paul Stovell started it last week, and since then several bloggers I follow have been caught up in it, including Gøran Hansen and Jonas Follesø.

I started out with the original "I don't care", "non-core" and "core" groups that Paul originally used, but since I generally fint it hard to "not care" about anything related to developing, it was really difficult to find anything to write in the outer circle :p Thus, I decided to follow Mitch Denny's example and use 'negative', 'neutral' and 'positive' circles. As he says, "The core stuff is what you are most interested in, and which you interest is possibly growing. The middle is what is still interesting but your interest has stabilised, and the outer is the stuff that you are getting less and less interested in."

So without further ado, here's my current circle of interest:

 

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I surprised myself a bit when thinking about where to put things - you may for example find it odd that a web developer like myself haven't been caught up in the Silverlight hype (yet!). And on that note, I think it'd be a fun twist to ask Silverlight and XNA guru Einar Ingebrigtsen to show us his circle of interest :)

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