Blog Fear

I have had many conversations at the office about the fear of writing a blog - especially when posting code samples.  From the blog author's perspective, it is a good and noble deed to post his/her code discoveries to the world.  However, despite good intentions, there is always the fear that someone in the cloud will find something wrong with the code, and potentially embarrass the would-be-poster-of-good-code. 

Mind you, I have overcome such fear.  I no longer fear such feedback - I embrace it.  I actually look forward to seeing how others see my code.  Even if the feedback is ugly, it is usually passionate, and usually for a reason worthy of examination.

So, henceforth, when I post code to the world... I press the enter key and say under my breath:  "bring it on..."