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Twenty years, 185 posts

What one developer wrote down between 2004 and 2025 — and what he was working on when he wrote it.

Posts per year

2004: 1 post 04 2005: 2 posts 2006: 3 posts 06 2007: 38 posts 38 2008: 23 posts 23 08 2009: 58 posts 58 2010: 19 posts 19 10 2011: 8 posts 2012: 8 posts 12 2013: 1 post 2014: 1 post 14 2015: 4 posts 2016: 2 posts 16 2017: 6 posts 2018: 3 posts 18 2019: 1 post 2020: 1 post 20 2021: 3 posts 2022: 0 posts 22 2023: 2 posts 2024: 0 posts 24 2025: 1 post

Peak year 2009: 58 posts — one every six days.

What he was working on

Visual Studio Visual Studio — 2006: 1 post Visual Studio — 2007: 9 posts Visual Studio — 2008: 1 post Visual Studio — 2009: 7 posts Visual Studio — 2010: 3 posts Visual Studio — 2012: 2 posts SQL Server SQL Server — 2007: 6 posts SQL Server — 2008: 1 post SQL Server — 2009: 2 posts .NET Framework .NET Framework — 2005: 1 post .NET Framework — 2007: 2 posts ASP.NET ASP.NET — 2007: 10 posts ASP.NET — 2008: 1 post ASP.NET — 2009: 9 posts ASP.NET — 2012: 1 post SharePoint SharePoint — 2008: 12 posts SharePoint — 2009: 29 posts SharePoint — 2010: 11 posts SharePoint — 2011: 2 posts SharePoint — 2012: 6 posts SharePoint — 2013: 1 post SharePoint — 2015: 4 posts SharePoint — 2016: 1 post SharePoint — 2017: 5 posts SharePoint — 2018: 1 post SharePoint — 2019: 1 post SharePoint — 2023: 1 post Silverlight Silverlight — 2007: 2 posts Silverlight — 2008: 1 post Silverlight — 2009: 4 posts Silverlight — 2010: 1 post WPF WPF — 2007: 1 post WPF — 2008: 1 post WPF — 2009: 6 posts Entity Framework Entity Framework — 2007: 1 post Entity Framework — 2008: 2 posts Entity Framework — 2009: 5 posts AJAX / jQuery AJAX / jQuery — 2007: 2 posts AJAX / jQuery — 2008: 1 post AJAX / jQuery — 2009: 6 posts Office 365 Office 365 — 2015: 2 posts Office 365 — 2019: 1 post Office 365 — 2025: 1 post PowerShell PowerShell — 2007: 2 posts PowerShell — 2013: 1 post PowerShell — 2015: 2 posts PowerShell — 2017: 4 posts Power Platform Power Platform — 2019: 1 post Power Platform — 2021: 2 posts Power Platform — 2023: 1 post Power Platform — 2025: 1 post 0406081012141618202224

Dot size is how many posts mentioned it that year. Ordered by when each peaked.

Four eras

2004 — 2006

Desktop and the .NET Framework

NUnit, config files, WinForms tricks. Three posts a year, written for whoever hit the same wall.

2007 — 2010

The burst

138 posts in four years — Visual Studio, ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight, then SharePoint takes over completely. Nearly two-thirds of everything here.

2011 — 2018

SharePoint, in production

Fewer posts, longer gaps, and a change of register: less "look at this", more "here is the error message and the fix".

2019 — 2025

The Power Platform tail

A post a year, sometimes none. PowerApps, Power Automate, a Blazor crash in TestFlight.

What twenty years does to links

481outbound links
267still resolve
214are gone
143recovered from the Wayback Machine
71lost for good

CodePlex closed. blogs.msdn.com went away. Where a dead link has an archived snapshot, this site now points at the snapshot instead — marked archived so you know what you're getting. The rest are flagged rather than left to fail silently.

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