Post #3,000!

imageI have been doing it for quite a while, sometimes it seems like forever. Somehow, I am not quite sure how, I got to this post, the third thousand one.

By sheer coincidence, this is also my birthday by the Hebrew calendar.

I am not quite sure what I am supposed to do about it, since the big surprise is planned for a few months from now, so I decided to go with the traditional route and do a retrospective.

I used these two posts to gather the information:

  • Active since: April 2004
  • Number of Posts: 3000
  • Number of Comments: 8,462
  • Avg. Comments Per Post:  5
  • Avg. Posts per Month: 73
  • Avg. Posts per Week Last Year: 19
  • Avg. Comments per Month: 208

The most popular posts, based on web views, aggregator views and comments. The results are quite surprising to me, I am not sure that I can readily explain it.

  1. Hibernating Rhinos - Episode #4: Hibernating Forums - Part I - Testable & Painless Persistence
  2. Hibernating Rhinos - Episode #2 - Select * From MonoRail.Customers
  3. Dependency Injection in Web Forms MVC
  4. Implementing Linq for NHibernate: A How To Guide - Part 1
  5. Challenge: Windsor Null Object Dependency Facility
  6. Rhino Mocks stats
  7. Documentation Contributions
  8. Supporting OSS in the .Net Space
  9. Linq for NHibernate
  10. Rhino Mocks 3.1 - Released!
  11. SSIS' 15 Faults
  12. Rhino Mocks 3.0 Released!
  13. ASP.Net Ajax vs. Unit Tests
  14. Building a Space to Grow
  15. MS-Innovation
  16. Rhino Mocks 3.3
  17. Must resist... decoding
  18. MVC in WebForms: The impossible fight to get rid of the views centric world
  19. Rhino Commons, Repository<T> and Unit Of Work
  20. Introducing Boobs: Boo Build System
  21. Using NHibernate With Stored Procedures
  22. Simple != Poor Quality, period!
  23. On SubSonic & NHibernate
  24. Hibernating Rhinos - Episode #1: Rhino Mocks 101
  25. 7 Approaches for AOP in .Net
  26. Visual SVN: Another Zero Friction Tool In The Toolbox
  27. Entities, Services and what goes between them...
  28. The Correct Separation Of Concerns
  29. Dev / Team estimation
  30. Maintainable, but for whom?

Print | posted on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 9:41 PM

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 re: Post #3,000! 12/4/2007 10:23 PM MarkK

Hey Oren, congrats!
Just a note, the top 30 posts, the links dont work. :/


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# re: Post #3,000! 12/4/2007 10:49 PM kevin

congrats ayende!

you're blog is terrific...happy birthday, happy 3k posts, and best wish and good luck for the future.


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 re: Post #3,000! 12/4/2007 10:57 PM matt

happy birthday oren. thanks for all you do for the community. amazing work.


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# re: Post #3,000! 12/4/2007 11:28 PM Judah Himango

Congrats, Oren. Happy Birthday as well!


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# re: Post #3,000! 12/4/2007 11:31 PM Ayende Rahien

MarkK, looks like I need to TDD my posts as well :-)
Fixed, thanks.


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 re: Post #3,000! 12/4/2007 11:40 PM Lee Henson

Happy Birthday Oren! Keep on keeping on ;)


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 re: Post #3,000! 12/4/2007 11:42 PM Raj

happy birthday oren...i love your blog. thanks for sharing your knowledge with the community..keep up the good work...


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# re: Post #3,000! 12/5/2007 1:04 AM Mads Kristensen

Thanks for keeping my feed reader glowing during the last 3 years. Keep it up!


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# re: Post #3,000! 12/5/2007 3:54 AM c.sokun

Happy Birthday Oren It was a great gift for the community that you've been born.


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# re: Post #3,000! 12/5/2007 3:57 AM Mats Helander

Happy Birthday Oren!! :-)

/Mats


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# re: Post #3,000! 12/5/2007 4:03 AM John-Daniel Trask

Happy Birthday Ayende.

I look forward to your post on the 12th of December about hitting the 4,000 post mark since you've certainly returned to your old pace ;-)

Keep it up,

- JD


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# re: Post #3,000! 12/5/2007 6:51 AM Chris Bilson

Happy Birthday, Oren!

And thanks for sharing so much with the rest of us!


# re: Post #3,000! 12/5/2007 8:21 AM Jan Van Ryswyck

Happy Birthday, Oren. Keep up the awesome work! I already learned a ton ...


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# re: Post #3,000! 12/5/2007 8:27 AM Pieter Joost van de Sande

Happy b-day and congrats you little posting slut :)


 re: Post #3,000! 12/5/2007 8:43 AM Dan

Congrats Oren, and happy b-day :)

# Number of Posts: 3000
# Number of Comments: 8,462
# Avg. Comments Per Post: 5

I see your using special math? ;)


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# re: Post #3,000! 12/5/2007 9:01 AM Ayende Rahien

Dan,
There is some logic there to do the calculation over more recent period of time.
I don't want the first year or so to drop the average down.


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# re: Post #3,000! 12/5/2007 9:29 AM Omer van Kloeten

Sweet, dude. Congrats :)


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# re: Post #3,000! 12/5/2007 11:17 AM Rob Kitson

Nice1. You are officially the most active feed in my roll!

I've heard it said that birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.

Happy Birthday!


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# re: Post #3,000! 12/5/2007 3:49 PM Jeffrey Palermo

Happy Hebrew Birthday!


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 re: Post #3,000! 12/5/2007 4:54 PM Roelof Blom

Congrats and 'Yom Huledet Sameach'


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# re: Post #3,000! 12/5/2007 11:00 PM Alex Henderson

Happy Birthday, and great work on the 3000 posts - I can always rely on you to fill my aggregator with something interesting :)


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# re: Post #3,000! 12/6/2007 8:39 AM Jon Galloway

Congrats! I still think Ayende is actually a committee - like the ScottGu triplets.


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# re: Post #3,000! 1/23/2008 12:46 AM josh

congrats on both counts.

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