Monday will be the fourth anniversary of my first post on this blog. If you have been around for a while this post is going to be very similar to the one from last year.
Positives
Most of my positive points are the same as last year, but here they are again in case you are new this year.
- Driver for learning new things
- Opportunity to use new/different technology outside of my normal work
- Helping others learn new concepts
- Helping others overcome problems
- Comments from readers letting me know posts were helpful
- No big hosting issues this year (thank you NodeHost!)
Challenges
Suprise some of the challenges are the same too. The big new one this year is negative responses/comments to some of my posts which has actually been much worse for me to come to terms with than the rest of the challenges I have faced.
- Negative responses/comments (See this post an example)
- Learning new things on a deadline
- Self-applied pressure to meet my goal of a post a week (increasing my stress level)
- Not focusing on stats, shares, comment, etc.
- Picking the right things to learn
- Time requirements taking away from other projects I would like to do
Top posts of the year
I had two repeats this year and the rest are new to the top 5. It is a bit surprising that a post with Angular 2 in the title is still making the top 5.
- Swagger and Swashbuckle with ASP.NET Core 2 (Up from #4)
- Angular 2 – Router links, click handlers, routing parameters
- Add Git Ignore to existing Visual Studio Project (Up from #5)
- Log Requests and Responses in ASP.NET Core
- Setup PostgreSQL on Windows with Docker
Resources
ASP.NET Weekly is a weekly digest of all the best ASP.NET related news and blog post run by Jerrie Pelser.
ASP.NET Community Standup is straight from the team at Microsoft who is responsible for ASP.NET Core. These videos are a great way to get the scoop on what is in the works.
NodeHost is my hosting provider. They provide super simple and cheap hosting. If you are looking for a place to host your own blog check them out. Combine them with Cloudflare and Let’s Encrypt and you are all set if you are going to WordPress route.
See my Books, Podcasts and Other Resources post for a more complete list.
The next year
This coming year is going to be a good one with the continued previews and eventual release of .NET Core 3 and related ASP.NET Core 3, Entity Framework Core 3, and support for Winforms/WPF.
I am also open to topic suggestions. Use the comments on this post or drop me an email and I will see what I can do.