Greetings and my own "get rich" scheme plan

Greetings to you all. Yeah, I know by ALL I meant my still-zero followers, but before I start with my ramblings on Java development and technology I think I should first introduce myself and describe why I think the Internet needs another tech blog.

First, as my personal description states (and where you can find more info about me - though I don't know why you would bother), I am a technology enthusiast who has been working with Java development for more than 10 years. I still remember vividly when Java Server Pages were "the next new thing", and we even had to name extensions of the pages based on the JSPs 1.0 spec like "*.jsp10" because all other JSPs were based on the 0.9 spec. Good times, good times...

But despite that, and my wish to be heard in this channel, I do not want to sound like I am an expert on anything. I just love what I do and I think this blog could be a good tool to keep in touch with like-minded people for a good exchange of ideas. And, if in the process this blog makes me filthy rich with its google ads, then it will be just a mere coincidence - though I think I am overly optimistic on that. Well, I promise if I ever get filthy rich I will write a book (or better yet, pay someone to do it while I spend life in the Caribe) describing how I got rich, and then I will be even richer. Ah if it were that simple... coming back to reality, I guess if your clicks get me one burguer meal per year it will be a burguer more than I expect. Who knows, if I keep writing here years from I could publish this as a book like Joel Spolsky - yeah yeah, I know I am just starting this thing and I am just another developer with a blog, but we gotta dream high, right? :D

My plan for the next posts is to focus on tools and techniques I have been learning or experimenting with, like how to setup an efficient development environment on the cheap (i.e. free-as-in-beer), and more specific techniques related with Oracle databases and Java Server Faces. From there I will keep posting whatever I will be learning / experimenting with in the future.

I will also include here all the sites I read almost everyday, and reviews of the best books I read. Hope you enjoy the ride and help this blog (and its author) with your feedback so I don't feel I'm talking all alone here.

Lastly, I hope you have patience to forgive my obvious lack of English skills - it has been only 3 years, more or less, since I moved to the US. I did not attend school here but went directly to employment, which surely didn't help make me the next Shakespeare. So, bear with me with a little patience and I promise I will try to improve as fast as I can. But if any error passes through the cracks (and I'm sure they will) I will blame MS Word or Google language translator. :D

Yours truly,
Pedro Burglin