The Inquisitive Coder – Davy Brion's Blog

This is my 200th post. After my first 100 posts, i posted a list of my 10 most popular posts at the time. Well, popular is probably not the correct term. They were the 10 posts that had gotten the most visits anyway. So i figure i might as well make a tradition out of it. Here’s the list of the top 10 most ‘popular’ posts between the 100th and the 199th post:

1. Career Advice For Young Developers

   This one was pretty big… it scored pretty good on reddit.com and also made it to the frontpage of delicious.com. In total it got over 15000 views, which is waaaay ahead of my other posts.

2. How To Write Testable ASP.NET WebForms

   Basically my MVP approach for ASP.NET WebForms. Still using this approach, and am pretty happy with the results we’ve seen so far.

3. Data Access With NHibernate

   My default Repository implementation to use with NHibernate. Still using a slightly modified version of this at work and again, pretty happy with how it’s worked out so far.

4. Batching WCF Calls

   My way of eliminating chatty WCF interfaces while still being able to offer fine-grained functionality. Ayende even linked to this post, which at the time was the first real ‘highlight’ in my blogging career.

5. The Request/Response Service Layer

   Basically a more formalized version of the Batching WCF Calls post. We’re using this approach in all of our new projects now, and it’s working pretty good.

6. 6 Years As A Professional Software Developer

   Pretty much just a look back on the first 6 years of my career. I definitely didn’t expect this post to get as much attention as it did though.

7. Link Blogs… Do Yourself A Favor

   My tribute to some of the great .NET-related link blogs. I get quite a bit of visitors from these guys, so thanks again!

8. My Guide To Effective Test Driven Development

   There aren’t a lot of people doing Test Driven Development, and quite a bit of those just aren’t doing it as well they could be. This ‘guide’ was pretty much my attempt to list a couple of important things to always keep in mind.

9. Software Development Books: Investing In Yourself

   This was my attempt to get developers to read more books about software development. The post got a lot of attention, but unfortunately it didn’t have the desired effect i had hoped it would have on my coworkers. I ordered a bunch of great books at work, and so far none of them has actually been read by any of my coworkers…

10. .NET Memory Management

    A lot of people take .NET’s garbage collection for granted, and there aren’t too many people who try to use it effectively so i wanted to write a bit of guidance about this.

And that’s the list

Another post that just keeps on attracting visitors are my NHibernate Mapping Examples, but since that one was already included in the list of the first 100 posts, i had to leave it out. But it recently got the attention of the great Scott Hanselman, who even linked to the post on two occassions. Having one of Microsoft’s best people link to your posts (an NHibernate post even) is pretty much as good as it gets. Well, so far anyways