To the English Speaking Developer Community Members Stumbling Across My Blog
Today I have received a number of requests from developers who asked me to post English Web Log messages.
As much as I feel flattered by the interest in my postings and of course would like to comply with the repeated request, I feel, on the other hand, I should not. For one simple reason: my target audience is the German or German-speaking developer community.
I´m living in Germany, I´m working in Germany, Germany (or the German-speaking regions: Germany, Austria, Switzerland) is the third (or even second?) largest software market, and I´m not very eager to increase my travelling abroad much for consulting/speaking engagements.
So let me apologize to all you English speaking developers: I can empathize with you, and I will reevaluate my standpoint in a couple of months (if I manage to keep on blogging for that long).
But for now I feel I serve my target audience much better by providing them information in their own language. Knowing the German developer community from many events for many years I simply know, although they might be able to read English technical literature, they very much prefer to read in German. That´s why I´m blogging in German.
I full well understand, this will limit the reach of "my message", but I´m willing to suffer the consequences. As you might guess, I´m constantly weighing the pros and cons. Let´s see, what I´ll be thinking in a couple of months. Stay tuned...