Posted on 1/20/2010 9:30:21 AM by Justin Etheredge
How many MIT graduates does it take to copy a file?
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Posted on 1/17/2010 7:30:43 PM by Justin Etheredge
You know, I'm not sure what else to title this post. I had a clever name for it which was "A Tale Of Two Search Engines". But I felt like that just didn't really embody what I needed out of this post. Because what I really need out of this post is help. Help from all of you.
I've had such a wonderful time working on my blog over the past two and a half years. I feel as if I have been really successful, but I've had just one problem...Google just doesn't seem to like me. Since starting my blog, I have never seen any increase in search traffic from Google aside from the occasional spike. I've complained about this on Twitter before, and I've put effort into trying to figure out what the problem is, but I've come to the realization that I need your help. I am sincerely asking for any help that anyone can provide. Google controls a significant portion of the internet's traffic, and if they don't like you, well then your site is in trouble.
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Posted on 1/5/2010 9:12:53 PM by Justin Etheredge
If you are tired, and don't feel like reading, then just go here and vote for me. If you actually want to figure out what you are voting for, then read on. :-) Just kidding, you should read below before you go vote.
Hello there loyal readers :-) I come to you with a serious question, "would you like to see me vomit on stage at MIX 2010?" If the answer to that question is "yes", then you should go vote for me. Okay, so maybe I won't actually vomit, but I promise to be really nervous! I've given tons of talks before, but I doubt that I've ever been in front of a group as large as one that will be at MIX. So I might vomit. :-) But probably not.
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Posted on 1/1/2010 11:01:41 AM by Justin Etheredge
I just got the e-mail this morning that I am a C# MVP for the second year in a row. I am very excited about this and I am really looking forward to being involved in the developer community in 2010 (as well as seeing many other MVPs at the Summit). I am also looking forward to producing tons of great content on this blog.
So, what are my focuses going to be in 2010?
- Well, I made a few posts on learning Scala which trailed off after a bit. I'd still like to learn more about Scala. It probably isn't a language that I'd use much in my work (especially with the CLI version far behind the JVM version), but I think it is very interesting and could provide a lot of cool ideas.
- I'd also like to learn a good bit more about F#. I've dabbled, but I've really never dug deep into it. This is one area that I'd like to look into and blog about more.
- I'd also like to explore some cloud offerings more, in particular exploring Windows Azure.
- In the short term I'd like to start exploring some of the newer additions to the .NET 4.0 framework. I can't decide if I want to start blogging these before or after VS2010 comes out. I guess it really depends on how much time I have!
I have a ton of other ideas and topics that I want to blog about in 2010, we will see how much I can get through!
Right now I am working on a screencast series for TekPub on LINQ. You should start seeing those show up real soon!
So, cheers to 2010, it looks like it is going to be a good one!
Posted on 12/30/2009 5:11:43 PM by Justin Etheredge
It is just about that time again… time for a 2009 wrap-up post. 2009, what a year. Quite the mixed bag really. On the economic front, I feel very lucky that I am where I am. Many were struggling this year. My family and I faired very well, and I have nothing but gratitude for that. I'm hoping that 2010 will be better for most in these respects.
As far as the blog goes, 2009 really has been a great year for my blog. I didn't see the stratospheric rise to the top that I expected deserved hoped for, but you know, you can't have everything I guess! Overall though, I definitely had a solid year, beating out my 2008 number pretty handily. I'm still not getting very much search engine love from Google, but I'm hoping that this might change in 2010. In case you're wondering, I got about 263k pageviews this year. Some people seem surprised when they hear it is that low. For some reason people think my blog has crazy high traffic, but the reality is that I just have really awesome readers who love to post comments and interact. :-) Just goes to show you, you have to fake it til you got it! Ha. I think reality is that I often post about topics which are more niche, and less interesting to the community at large. One of my plans in 2010 is to try and keep that focus on the niche hardcore topics, but to also provide more content to the larger developer community. But when it comes down to it, I blog about what is interesting to me so we will see how this new strategy goes.
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