The reason I am blogging today is to say how much I love gamedev.net. I first came to gamedev.net back in 2004 as a young aspiring game developer. After a hiatus I came back under a new user id because I totally forgot what my last one was and email address changed so on and so forth. I had my ups and downs here pissing some people off because of my sometimes sarcastic replies I have a tendency to make. They technically are not but come off that way because from time to time I get irritated with how lazy people are and don't do their proper research before asking questions. We have all had those moments. Either way I have learned so much about development from this site and I have given back the same learnings to some others that this site pretty much became a second home for me.
Through out these years I learned so much about myself from this site and this site shaped me so much as a developer. Out of all the lessons I learned from GDNet the largest lesson I learned was that game development is not for me. Sure I can make games but that does not interest me anymore I guess I outgrew the childhood fantasy and found my real niche in the software community of developing software to make tasks easier and more intuitive. I also learned I have a passion for Information System Security as well (my current degree). All of this is because GDNet helped shape my identity over the years.
At this point in time I have a burning desire for GDNet to be more then Game Development centric. I mean I rarely ever talk about game development anymore it is all about Version Control, my progress learning Obj-C and cocoa and other software related topics. This community is a great community I just wish it was more Software centric covering the basis of both game development and normal software development.
Either way Home is Home and I <3 GDNet either way.
