My Top 5 Posts of 2008, Sort Of
Wednesday, December 31 2008

I’ve never actually written a “Top X Posts” post to end the year before, so I figured, what the heck, I’ll do one this year. As Phil points out, “I find that somewhat narcissistic, so you know I’m going to do that”.

And notice I said “sort of” in the title of this post. That’s because on October 1st I switched blog engines (from Subtext to Graffiti) and hosting providers (from DiscountASP to OrcsWeb), so instead of trying to be completely accurate and aggregate stats across both both engines and both hosting providers, I’m taking the lazy approach and am using only the Top 5 posts since making the switch.

My guess is these are a pretty good projection of the year anyway, so here are my Top 5 posts for 2008 (sort of), according to Graffiti for the reporting period Oct 1 – Dec 31:

  1. NHibernateRepository. This post is over two years old but still gets plenty of traffic. The codebase is a bit outdated now; hopefully I can update it soon to take advantage of stuff I’ve learned since then.
  2. Use a Single Web.Config for IIS6 and IIS7. The title pretty much says it all.
  3. Charcoal Visual Studio Settings. After avoiding dark-background settings for so long, I finally found a theme I like to code in.
  4. Zune Desktop Theme. Another post that’s a couple years old, but helps show how many people out there still use Windows XP.
  5. Bloggers Holiday Charity Challenge. This is me taking part in ScottW’s challenge to spread some love this holiday season. I’ll be posting my results of this in the next few days.

And that’ll do it for 2008. See you on the flip side.