It's been a year
It's been about a year since
I first
started blogging. At first, I wasn't sure if I should do it because I
couldn't think of what to blog about and
I
didn't think I'd have anything interesting to say. I remember asking
Andy Pennell,
Steve Steiner, and
Gregg Miskelly if I should start a
blog and they encouraged me to. In retrospect, it's been great and my blog-todo
list is about 40 entries deep (with some of them listed
here).
I've enjoyed writing about these topics. I think Microsoft's overall blogging
activity is really wonderful, and I'm glad to be part of that.
Some of the things I specifically enjoyed are:
1) Building up large database of blog entries. It's great to be able to tell
people "I have a detailed answer to your question on my blog". I think at this
point, it's actually saving me time.
2) Adding links. For whatever reason, I get a real kick out of being able to add
useful hyperlinks to my blog entries.
3) I Actually feel like I'm providing useful information to customers.
4) My entries have good rankings in msn.search + google queries for related
topics. That tells me that I'm hitting the area.
Some stats: total blog entries: 129 (not including this one).
I've found it interesting which entries people like and don't like. FWIW, here are my 10 most popular blog entries based on web hits:
| 1 | Managed Debugger Sample | Thursday, September 30, 2004 3:20 PM | 12934 |
| 2 | Winforms gui on top of Managed debugger sample. | Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:08 PM | 11056 |
| 3 | Source for a C# compiler written in pure C#. | Sunday, February 06, 2005 9:52 PM | 9175 |
| 4 | What's new in v2.0 CLR Debugging (ICorDebug)? | Tuesday, January 04, 2005 8:36 PM | 6000 |
| 5 | Tool to allow inline IL in C# / VB.Net | Monday, February 21, 2005 11:29 PM | 5685 |
| 6 | Debugging IL | Sunday, October 03, 2004 3:36 AM | 5385 |
| 7 | Source is available for MDbg Winforms GUI! | Friday, February 04, 2005 7:50 PM | 5147 |
| 8 | We need your feedback on the fate of Cordbg.exe | Wednesday, October 06, 2004 1:18 AM | 4528 |
| 9 | Finding where unmanaged exceptions came from | Tuesday, January 18, 2005 9:35 PM | 4358 |
| 10 | ICorDebug, Edit-and-Continue, and C# | Sunday, October 17, 2004 12:31 AM | 3459 |