Bluegenegeek

This is that time of the year, where I have to look back at what I have achieved in the year. It is also that time of the year to make the next years resolutions.

Looking back

In 2010 I did a total of 25 blog posts (26 including this one), concentrating on ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, SQL Server and Windows Phone 7, which are main focus areas of my blog.

I have to admit that I didn't reach my initial goal of 40 blog posts this year when I started my blog. I also postponed building my own blog on MVC2 which I wanted to start early this year.

Looking at the bright side of things, I did learn new technologies like Silverlight for Windows Phone 7. 3 Of my articles were featured in www.asp.net as the community articles of the day.

Here are the list of top 5 Blog posts that I did this year -

1. ASP.NET MVC2 Client Validation
2. Using ASP.NET Charting in ASP.NET MVC 
3. Sorting Tabular Data in ASP.NET MVC
4. Using TinyMCE Editor with ASP.NET MVC
5. Using Elmah in your website 

 

And here is a list of 3 of my articles that were featured in asp.net community articles.

1. ASP.NET MVC2 Client Validation
2. Using ASP.NET Charting in ASP.NET MVC 
   
3. Sorting Tabular Data in ASP.NET MVC 

Apart from these I have started a series of blog posts covering how to build a Windows Phone 7 App and how to use Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC.

All in all it was a good year for me.

What's next in 2011

In 2011,

1. I would like to write at least 40 blog posts.
2. I would like to start building for Windows Phone 7 more.
3. I would like to contribute to one Open source project in some way.
4. I would like to migrate my blog to Sitefinity 4.0(given the difficult migration experience I had till now, I am not entirely sure how this one is going to go)
5. Also I would like to re-skin my blog to a more lively color templates.

Let us see how far I will get in my new year goals.

That's it for this year,

Have a great holiday everyone.

Cheers

Venkata