Blogging & Google - the ultimate problem solver
I’m amazed at the power of blogging and google. In April of 2004 I had a problem with Hibernate and after googling for an answer to the problem, I couldn’t find anything. A day later I posted my problem on my blog and within an hour, Matt Raible had seen my post appear on JavaBlogs and immediately gave me my answer. And it was a simple one…stupid oversite on my part. I updated the post with the solution and added the following to the update: “Hopefully google will index and it’ll be a reference in case others have the same problem.”
Every few days I get comments added to the original post on the No persister for error saying that many people have had the same problem and my blog and google have solved it for them. It’s a good feeling to give back since I’ve had to use Google so many times in the past. Thats why it’s also important once you do post somewhere about your problem to go back and list how you eventually solved it. You’re not the only one with that problem.