No. There are two main points for a programming blog - to keep your own notes in one place, and to try and raise your profile / build an audience to make the next contract or pay review a much happier experience.
Neither of those are helped by ads, and the latter is probably negatively impacted.
You have really impressive views afaik - which is why someone probably called you. But even so, you are thinking a rough likely income of 140usd a month. It's really hard to put the logical business case, but being the guy in the department who gets 100K views on his blog is easily worth 1700 usd at the annual pay review (read patio11 post on this subject).
If you are a contractor or can build a network from the blog that 1700 pa is going to get wiped out in one deal.
Stick a mailchimp form on your blog and keep writing interesting stuff.
Neither of those are helped by ads, and the latter is probably negatively impacted.
You have really impressive views afaik - which is why someone probably called you. But even so, you are thinking a rough likely income of 140usd a month. It's really hard to put the logical business case, but being the guy in the department who gets 100K views on his blog is easily worth 1700 usd at the annual pay review (read patio11 post on this subject).
If you are a contractor or can build a network from the blog that 1700 pa is going to get wiped out in one deal.
Stick a mailchimp form on your blog and keep writing interesting stuff.