Alternate Data Stream

So recently I've been involved with quite a number of little projects (personal and tech related) that I would like to share with the readers of this blog. First, a backgrounder on the situation.

I've always been thinking about revamping the C++ Soup blog and adding more content in the form of audio/video and maybe hosting a forum of sorts. In the quest to get this process moving, I tried out Square Space which provides a nice interface for creating your own website without having to write a single piece of code. So far, my experiments have yielded the move of my personal blog to a new domain (deanberris.com) and a new host.

In that process, I would like to open up the topic to you and ask what would you like to see more of from C++ Soup. I have my own list of things I'd like to put up which I'm listing down here:

• A weekly/monthly podcast of interesting C++ discussions -- featuring book and library authors.
• An FAQ section with specific tutorials dedicated to specific topics -- specifically I plan to collect idioms and good ideas/snippets separated out from the blog posts.
• Industry news and opinion articles -- news specific to C++ and related technologies like parallel high performance computing, gaming, etc.
• More authors and contributors -- I may be opening up C++ soup to accept outside contributors and other authors to contribute fresh content to the site.

With regard to a podcast, I recently took part in the pilot episode of the Pinoy Tech Podcast* featuring some prominent Internet figures from the Philippines (namely Jerome Gotangco, Miguel Paraz, Jon Limjap, and Aileen Apolo). I felt really confident about being part in one that I'm seriously considering making it part of my regular internet activities -- and maybe developing a C++-centric podcast of my own. Hopefully I can get that started sooner than later.

* NOTE: The podcast uses some Tagalog language in the discussion, although most of the discussion is spoken in English.

So I would like to know what you think about the plans -- please feel free to post comments so that I can consider what you think. If you prefer email, you can send them to dean.berris@cplusplus-soup.com or me@deanberris.com.

Update: Adding tags to the post.