Today is the fifth anniversary of my first post on this site. As I do every year at this time this post is going to be a look back over the last year as it related to this blog plus some overall information since the five year mark is a big one.
Positives from Blogging
Most of my positive points are the same over the years.
- Drives my personal learning
- Opportunity to try technology outside of my day job
- Helping you all learn new things and/or overcome problems
- Comments from you all when you find something useful
Challenges from Blogging
Most of the challenges are the same year over year as well.
- Learning on a deadline
- Self-applied pressure to post consistently
- Focusing too much on results (stats, comments, etc.)
- Much harder this year since the growth of the site has slowed
- Picking the right topics
- Time requirements
Top posts of the last year
- ASP.NET Core with Dapper
- Add Git Ignore to existing Visual Studio Project (Up from #3)
- Setup PostgreSQL on Windows with Docker (Up from #5)
- ASP.NET Core 3: Add Entity Framework Core to Existing Project
- Entity Framework Core: Logging
Top post from the last five years
- Add Git Ignore to existing Visual Studio Project
- Swagger and Swashbuckle with ASP.NET Core 2
- Angular 2 – Router links, click handlers, routing parameters
- Setup PostgreSQL on Windows with Docker
- Log Requests and Responses in ASP.NET Core
The next year
This year we have .NET 5 to look forward to which should bring with it client-side Blazor. I haven’t heard much about what else will be in .NET 5, but I’m sure it will be some exciting stuff.
Random Status from the last 5 years
264 posts (meeting the goal of one post per week)
664 comments
1,158,797 spam comments blocked by Akismet
2 hosting companies (Nodehost rocks!)
101 books read (last 3 years)
6 books purchased from referral links
Peek page views in July 2018
Peek yearly page views in 2019