Creating documentation isn’t fun. I’ve done my fair share in 10 years of administering systems. I’ve written documentation on AD, Exchange, router and switch configurations, VoIP system configuration and operations, and so on. As a one man shop that architected all the systems I ran, I was unsure what level of detail was required. What helped the most was having an outside resource that could review the documentation and try to fix a problem given the information I documented. Whatever question he had, that also had to be added.

Over the Christmas season, I participated in social coding community event called Commitmas. The objective was to learn git and try to use it every day for 12 days. As I wrote in another blog post, Rockin Around the Commitmas Tree, this was a great opportunity to jump start learning to use it with others in the community.