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April 11th, 2010 at 11:34 pm

Posted in Software Development Theory

Making Good Software 1st Anniversary

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The 13th of this month is the 1st anniversary of this blog. A year blogging might sound non impressive, but to me is a big achievement. When I started I only could hope for publishing some articles on dzone and to get maybe a couple of hundred subscribers, I never imagined that I would get to publish 50 articles in dzone, around 10 of them in reddit and ycombinator and 1 in meneame.net (the Spanish equivalent to digg).

This is my way to thank the 150.000 unique visitors, the 520 people that have posted a comment, and the 1700 that are subscribed to the blog, thank you for your support and for your time reading my articles.

In this previous year, 60 articles have been published, from which the 10 most read have been:

  1. Programmers top 10 sentences
  2. 5 top non-technical mistakes made by programmers
  3. The four golden rules to be a better software developer
  4. 5 top non-technical mistakes made by programmers
  5. How to write a good test case: 5 tips to write better test cases
  6. 5 Tips for creating good code every day; or how to become a good software developer
  7. The best bug tracking system. Don’t raise bugs, write an automated test!
  8. My ten development principles
  9. The average Software Developer versus the good Software Developer.
  10. The next software development revolution is here… Are you ready?

In this next year I would like to aim for 3-4 posts per month,  improve my writing skills (as you probably have noticed I am not a native English speaker), and to increase my reader base. I can only wish I will be writing a similar post in one year time from now. Once again, thanks to all of you for being at the other side of the screen, to finish off the article I have included some screen shots with statics for the site, bare in mind that they are only from the previous six months, when I started to monitor them.

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  3. The four golden rules to be a better software developer.
  4. 5 top non-technical mistakes made by programmers
  5. The next software development revolution is here… Are you ready?

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7 Responses to 'Making Good Software 1st Anniversary'

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  1. Congratulations! Keep up the good work!

    Your articles are very thoughtful and fun too read, it is quite surprising to know that you have been doing it for just one year.

    Maxim

    12 Apr 10 at 4:45 am

  2. Hi Maxim!!

    Thanks a lot for your kind words, with comments like that I am going to be blogging for a few more years for sure…

    Thanks!!!

    Alberto Gutierrez

    12 Apr 10 at 5:15 am

  3. Congratulations man! I am a regular reader of your blog and I love your posts. Right from the first post. I like how you stress on software craftsmanship. Many a time I point my friends and colleagues to your blog whenever I need to explain to them some chapters about write great code.

    Keep on rolling!

    Chirantan Rajhans

    13 Apr 10 at 12:17 am

  4. Hi Chirantan!

    Thanks for your comment, is really something to hear that I may be helping people, and no worries, I will keep rolling!!!

    Thanks!!!

    Alberto Gutierrez

    13 Apr 10 at 4:12 am

  5. Congratulations!
    I’ve read all of your posts and do not remember one that wasn’t great.
    Please, keep up the fantastic work.

    Thanks!

    Brian

    14 Apr 10 at 8:52 am

  6. Hi Brian,

    Thanks for your kind words!

    Alberto Gutierrez

    15 Apr 10 at 2:16 am

  7. Congratulations for your first anniversary!

    I am following your posts since a few months from now, and I enjoyed each of them. It always comfort me in my thoughts to see that we share common good practices and thoughts about software craftsmanship. Sometimes I show my colleagues some of your articles for specific points as you explain them pretty well.

    So keep going on with you very good articles.

    Reynald Borer

    27 Apr 10 at 2:46 pm

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