Why I writing blog about software development and best technologies? Because I'm senior software developer and this is my life. Each developer need to find and research new technologies, new software and best practices for progress and evolution. What this is blog about and why? Software development and best technologies is my choice, because it is interesting for me and this is useful for other people too. I'm trying to find best articles, awesome or informative and detailed information.
Blog statistics
Blog http://agafonovslava.com is only 3 month old and it has pretty good results from my point of view. Cool blogging results connected to software developers community interests and my desire for sharing new and fresh content as soon as I can. A lot of articles from this blog I found in ASP.NET community weblogs, Martin Fowler blog, Scott Gu blog, Phil Haack articles and other well known people.
agafonovslava.com - has 45 listeners on RSS channel today and this number is growing. Almost 15,000 unique visitors now. Blog already has 14,372 absolute unique visitors.
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All traffic sources sent 20,897 visits via 184 sources and mediums
Software development and best technologies blog is popular in 111 countries with more than 20,000 page visits and it is the most popular in USA.
224 pages were viewed a total of 34,592 times
The best developed and big IT countries like US, England, Germany and Ukraine are very enjoy software blog regarding to this statistics.
Here the links on the best articles regarding to statistics.
Design patterns
Inversion of control (IOC containers) .NET IOC patterns
MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) in .NET 4.0
MVVM and Service Agent
MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) design pattern
IT Conferences
IT Jam 2010 how it was?
IT Jam 2010 Kharkov
.NET Framework
Most popular .NET web frameworks
Friend assemblies in .NET
Workflow Foundation (WF) in .NET 4
.NET Framework 4.0 new features analyze
ASP.NET MVC 3 preview analyze
Motivation for using .NET
WCF + WF
ASP.NET security hole patch
New features in ASP.NET 4
Solid ASP.NET MVC applications recommendations
Visual Studio
Customize start page Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Setup Insallation and features analyze
Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks
Insufficient memory error in Visual Studio 2010
Debugging with IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2010
Development
Licenses
Senior developer
Top interview questions list to ask software company customer
What software architect should know?
Tools and Addins
NuPack Package Manager
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch
Tips and tricks
Checklist for successful website
Top merge and diff tools for coding
Presentation best practices, top Power Point presentation advices, tips and tricks
Entry point and first steps in blogging
Books
Agile Development Books
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Summary
I like that you enjoy information in my blog. This is really important for me when you stay with me and put feedback regarding to interesting topics. This software blog has 39 posts currently 146 comments 231 raters. I think my idea to put podcast about developer's life is good idea and I think that comics at the end of all articles are really funny for you. Thank you all for support and good words. What do you think about my blog about software development and best technologies?
