One year anniversary

Feb 5, 2007

Exactly one year ago this website saw the light of day and in that time the archive has grown to 201 posts about C#, ASP.NET and a little bit of other related stuff. This will continue in the year to come. Because I’m in a birthday mood today, here are a couple of offers for you.

Free flaming

We’ve had many great discussions through the comments and by email and I appreciate it a lot. Thank you for that. However, it was all specific to the individual posts and not general about the website or me. So, I’m asking you to tell me why I suck or even better, what I could do to suck less.

Nothing will be taken personally, so this is your free chance to tell me exactly how you feel about the .NET slave for everybody to see. Don’t hold back, bring it!

Wish a song

Think about a radio show where the listener calls in and ask the DJ to play a specific song. Regardless of the terrible analogy, I hereby invite you to ask me to write about any topic you find interesting. It could be a piece of code you want me to write or other developer related topics.

The only rule is that is has to adhere to my coding and writing principles, which basically will be my own problem. I’ll try to accommodate all the suggestions if possible. Send me a mail or a comment detailing your suggestion and remember that no suggestions are stupid.

So there you have it.

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Comments (7) -

thorkia

2/5/2007 6:18:18 PM #

You know all those little zip files you attach to posts with nifty little fixies in them? Make a page that lists all of them and there appropriate posts, so that lazy people like me don't have to go digging for them!

Morten Krog

2/5/2007 9:10:11 PM #

Since you are basically begging for comments, here goes:

I read your blog every day. Some times I think your solutions are trivial and sometimes I learn something new. It doesn't matter to me, because my experience comming here is that I get another experienced developer's take on the little challenges we have every day in our job. And that is worth something even when I am not particular interessted in your solution.

The only thing I can come up with is my wish for a more high level discussion of software design and architecture while still keeping it focused on everyday descisions and implementation issues. Want to write about that myself, but I don't.

Keep up the work. And btw. I think you are a fantastic advertisement for your company -- at least towards other developers. You should get some appreciation for that too.

Regards
Morten

Manu Temmerman-Uyttenbroeck

2/6/2007 9:23:54 AM #

I already planned to send you an email about what thorkia wrote. You already wrote sooo many small http modules.. It would be very nice to have some overview in one page. Or maybe they could be added in your 'downloads' part? But probably there's a lack of space to write some useful comments.

And then about your wish a song. I sent you an email a few weeks ago. It was about some issues I had (and still have) to write some generic piece of code. I think I explained the idea in that e-mail... Was my question to trivial? Was what I'm trying to do not making any sense?

Mike

2/6/2007 12:30:57 PM #

I read your post and then click on the Comments link. The page refreshes and I don't see the comments. I have to scroll down. You suck for that.

Mads Kristensen

2/6/2007 6:31:03 PM #

Thanks for the comments and all the mails.
@thorkia - I've added links to the different content to download on the right side of the page.

@Morten - I'm already planning more architectural posts and will be writing more stuff like that.

@Mike - The page now scrolls down to the comments when you click the comment link.

@Manu - Sorry about that. You'll be getting an e-mail.

Robert Fuchs

2/6/2007 10:13:37 PM #

How about another CSLA article?

regards

Timo

2/8/2007 6:28:17 AM #

What about TDD ? I would like to see an article how (ASP.NET) developer can benefit from Test Driven Development. Also, design patterns and how to apply them in our everyday developement work.

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