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The end of the year is upon us, 2010 is about to be in the books. When closing out a year I like to take a look back at the articles I wrote over the year and see which ones resonated the most with readers. Which ones generated the most reader emails? Which ones were read the most? Such a retrospective analysis highlights what content was of most interest to developers in the trenches, and this data is used to guide article topics in the new year. I ended last year with a “Best Of” article – see 2009’s Most Popular Articles – and decided to continue this tradition. Such “Best Of” articles give both regular and new readers a chance to discover (or rediscover) the most favored content from the year. So here it is – a list and synopsis of the 2010’s most popular articles on 4GuysFromRolla.com. Read More >

The end of the year is upon us, 2009 is about to be in the books. When closing out a year I like to take a look back at the articles I wrote over the year and see which ones resonated the most with readers. Which ones generated the most reader emails? Which ones were read the most? Such a retrospective analysis highlights what content was of most interest to developers in the trenches, and this data is used to guide article topics in the new year. While cataloging this year’s most popular articles I thought others might find the data interesting. Such a “Best Of 2009″ list would give both regular and new readers a chance to discover (or rediscover) the most favored content from the year. So here it is – a list and synopsis of the 2009’s most popular articles on 4GuysFromRolla.com. Read More >

It’s that time of the year to reflect, analyze and compile our lives into a series of Top 10 lists.  As with every other Top 10 list, the items on this list and their order are highly subjective.  For example, some companies may not care about future versions of .NET — version 2.0 works just