4 Million Page Views and 800 blog post completed for my blog- dotnetjalps.com

As you know that I’m not super crazy about blog milestones but this is a special one and I could not resist sharing with you guys. This blog completed 4 Million Page Views and This is the 801st blog post I’m writing. What an amazing journey for this blog.

On this occasion of 4 million pages views I would like to thank my readers, friends and Mentors without them it was not possible. THANK YOU  VERY EVERYONE

This blog has started as a quest to see my name in search engines and then I got serious into blogging and then onwards never looked back. Again I am very thankful to my readers without their it was not possible. I host my blog on blogger.com so here are some of statistics on my blog.


And here is the top 10 blog post for all time.



From the statistics, you can see I’m getting about 70,000 page views every month. and More than 3000 page views every day. This all done with genuine search engine optimization provided blogger.com. Also, I started tracking my page views from 2010. So actually it's more than 4 million page views.

On this occasion, I would definitely like to Thank my Wife Reeana and all the family members who sacrifice their time when I write this blog.

Now I will try to be more punctual about writing blogs and hopefully, you will get lots of new stuff like ASP.NET Core, SQL Server, My SQL, Linux, Node.js, Angular, Vue.js as I learned a lot of this new technologies and will share my experience with you guys.

Once again thank you all readers without you guys It would not have been possible.

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Microsoft MVP for the 6th time! Thank you, Microsoft

First all, Sorry for the late post. I am very happy and proud to announce that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for the 6th time in “Visual Studio and Development" Category.



On this occasion, I would to Thank Microsoft for again such a wonderful gesture. I would also like to thank my MVP Community lead Deepak Rajendran  & team for their constant support. I would like to thanks, Biplab Paul and Gadharv Rawat for doing same earlier. Without the support of these guys, it would not have been possible to achieve this.

Also, I would like to thank my family for their constant support for compromising their time to do the community work. Special thank to my wife Reena. Behind every men’s success, there is a woman and she is the woman responsible for my success. I would like to dedicate this award to my family this time especially my little champ who is the inspiration for me to staying strong in any condition.

Also, I would like to thank Ahmedabad User Group and Microsoft for providing awesome opportunity to speak at various events.

Last but not least, THANK YOU my dear blog readers without you. It was not possible.

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My blog awarded top 60 Dot Net Blogs on Web from FeedSpot

It’s been a great year for me overall. It was a roller coaster ride for me. Recently I got an email from Anuj Founder of FeedSpot that My blog has been awarded as Top 60 DotNet Blog from FeedSpot.



You can find complete list of Top 60 blog at following link.

http://blog.feedspot.com/dotnet_blogs/

My blog at 22 positions there.It’s great pleasure being part of Top 60 Dot Net Blog in Web. On this occasion I would like to thank my Family without there support it was not possible to bee there. Specially my wife Reena who sacrifies her time when I’m writing blog posts. Also I, would like to thank my entire audience and readers without them it was not possible to achieve such a great milestone.

Thank you very much everyone!!. Please keep reading my blog. Stay tuned!

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New Blog theme- new technologies

This blog has been quite for the some time. I was busy doing some professional commitments but now I decided to write blog post regularly. As there are lots of interesting stuff happening in technology world. There are tons of new technologies coming up and lots of new things to learn.

New blogger theme:

Recently blogger.com has launched few new theme and I also decided to have new blogger theme on my blog. I have used “Contempo” theme for my blog. This time I have done some experiments I have not changed anything except the background feature. Let’s see how it goes with SEO and other stuff.  Here is new look of my blog.



Hope you will like it.

New Technologies to blog :

There are lots of stuff happening in technology and I started learning those technologies and I’m going to share my learning experience with you guys for sure. So do except blog post on following topics.

1. Visual Studio 2017
2. ASP.NET Core 1.1
3. C# 7.0
4. Entity Framework Core
5. .NET Core cross platform
6. Docker
7. Node.js
8. Golang
9. SQL Server 2016
10. MongoDB
11. Azure and Different Azure services
12. Angular 2/4.
13. React
14. Vue.js

I outlines few of technologies there but still there are lots of happening so Please put your comments that what technologies I should learn and blog about.

As always, Again thank you very much for the your support and love. Without your support this blog would have not have been exist. Thanks all as always.

Happy blogging and journey continues.

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3 millions page views for my blog–DotNetJalps.com

I am not super crazy about milestones. But its a big one so I have to share. My blog just completed 3 Million page views it’s an amazing journey so far. Thank you all readers from bottom of my heart. I host my blog on blogger.com. So here is the statistics from blogger.com.




Here are top most of blogger post for all time.



Till 2010, I was not tracking my page views but at this time I am getting more than 60k page views per month.  Special thanks to my dear wife, who scarifies her time when I write the blog.
Once again, Thank you dear visitors and reader of my blog, without you, this would not have been possible!.

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How to use syntax highlighter with open live writer

Microsoft has open sourced windows live writer as “Open Live Writer” and is now part of .NET Foundation, It was a great move but as a part of modernizing the windows live writer they have started removing the functionality and adding some new functionality. Eventually, they are going to add the plugins but right now there is no support for that. I have been using windows live writer for more than 5 years now and I was using syntax highlighter for highlighting code on this blog. If you are not familiar with syntax highlighter you can find more information on the following link.

http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/

It is a fully functional self-contained code syntax highlighter developed in  JavaScript. As now Open writer does not support plugin for the time being, I have to find another solution to write the blog post and do some syntax highlighting. So, I have found a way to do this and I would like to share this with you. In this blog post, we are going to learn how we can use syntax highlighter other way.

I was using preCode syntax highlighter plugin. It’s an open source plugin and provides a great plugin for syntax highlighter.

http://precode.codeplex.com/

But as Open Live Writer does not support plugin, There is no way to directly Integrate that plugin, But fortunately, precode syntax highlighter plugin comes with a desktop application was so now you can run that desktop application via finding it on windows 10 like below.



Once you run the preCode Code manager desktop app, It will run the application like following.



Here you can put your code make settings as per your choice on the right side like below.



Then just click on the copy to clipboard and close. It will copy syntax highlighter code in the memory.  Now click on source tab at the bottom on the open live writer like below.



Then paste that code like below.



And now publish your post and it will look like below.

function helloWorld{
    alert("hello world");
}

That's it. It is very easy to use precode code manager with the open live writer. Hope you liked it. Stay tuned for more!.

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My Interview on Geek.Fest - What's new in C# 6

I have been featured on Geek.Fest a you channel by Fanie Reynders. I have lots of fun while talking about latest C# features. We had interesting discussion and demo of latest c# features. Following is a video on the you tube.



You can find blog from Fanie at following location.
http://reynders.co/2015/10/01/geekfest-9-whats-new-in-csharp-6/

Following is the sample code and demo for the discussion.
https://github.com/dotnetjalps/LatestCSharpFeatures

Thank you very much Fanie Reynders and Geek.Fest for featuring me.

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New milestone achieved- 2 million pages view for my blog - www.dotnetjalps.com

Today, I have came to know that my blog has completed 2 million page views. I am not crazy about milestone and normally I don't share my milestones publicly but this is huge milestone so I'm sharing with you and there is another reason behind it. I want to say huge thank you to all my blog readers. Thank you from bottom of my heart.

I host my blog on blogger.com. So here is the statistics from blogger official statistics.



Till 2010, I have not started tracking page views, But after that I have started tracking page views for my blog and I am almost getting 59k page views every month and approx. 2.5 page views everyday.
Here are the top 10 blog post all time as per blogger statistics.

 

So once again, Thank you very much dear readers and I promise I continue to write blogs in my free time.

Also, last but not least I would like thank my family specially my wife who sacrifices her time some time as I am busy writing blog post for my blog post. So thank you dear wife!. My brother and father for continue providing all the support and my little rock star from where I get all energy to write blog post.

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I’m Microsoft MVP again. Thank you all

Today is one of the great day in my life. I’m again an Microsoft MVP for .NET and I’m happiest person on the earth and proud of it. Today’ I got this award for fourth time. Earlier I got this award for year 2010,2011 and 2012 for Visual C#.

I would like to thank all of you readers for making my blog so much popular. Thank you my family who has sacrificed lot of time for writing blog and other community activities. Also  I would like to Mention few people without their support and encouragement it would not have been possible. So special thanks to Mahesh Dhola, Kaushal Bhavsar, Ahmedabad .NET User group , Biplab Paul  and Gandharv Rawat.

I would also like to thank my current and previous Employers who has providing excellent opportunity to be part of .NET Technology world.



Thank you all!.  Stay tune fore more!!.

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Completed 725 blog post and still counting

I’m not a fan of counting milestones but today it was huge one so I could not resist myself to write a blog post about it. Today this blog has been completed 725 Blog post.

I still could not believe this blog has come so far!. This will would not have been possible without you guys.

I promise that I try to keep updated this blog in weekly.  Also on this occasion I would also like to thank my family. Specially my wife who is continuously supporting me and sacrifice her time for my blog post.

Thanks you all again! . Also today I have changed my blog theme to a modern look. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more. Keep reading my blog. 

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Happy New year 2015

New year passed so fast and that I have not feel as its a big time. On this occasion I would like to thank you all my readers for reading my blog and encourage me via putting lots of comments. I promise I will keep writing this blog whenever I get a chance.

Wishing every one a happy new year!!

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1.5 million page views for my blog- dotnetjalps.com

Ahh, still it’s hard to believe that my blog has achieved this milestone. Yeah my blog got completed 1.5 millions page views. So first all, thank you readers without you guys it’s not possible to achieve such a big milestone.

When I started my blog I was not never sure what I am going to do with this blog. But then it’s become integral part of my life. Now I can’t imaging my self without my blog.

A big thank you to all who supported me and given so much love to my blog.

I would also like to thank you my family without their support it was not possible to achieve such a big milestone.

Before some time I have written a blog post about 1 million view. It took almost four years to achieve 1 million page views mile stone and now this time it cross half million in just about 7 months( May 2014 to Dec 2014). So again thank you very much dear readers for making my blog popular.

Statistics from blogger.com:

I am not super crazy about sharing statistics but this is a special milestone I am sharing my statistics with you guys. Following is a statistics confirmed by blogger built in statistics tool.

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Blog post selected as ASP.NET MVC Official Additional Learning Resources

I have got news before few days that my blog post about CDN is ASP.NET MVC bundling selected as Additional Resources for learning about ASP.NET MVC on official ASP.NET Site.

On this occasion I would like to thank my audience and my family to supporting me. Thank you all without you it would not have been possible. I loved to be part of this amazing community and I promise that I would continue to do community work.

I would also like to thank Rick Anderson and Jon Galloway and whole ASP.NET Team for selecting my post. It’s a honour for me. Thanks you very much guys for encouraging and inspiring me  to do community work!!

Due to all this my blog got high ranking and I’m almost getting more then 80k page views every month. Google is loving my blog more and more!!


Thank you very much everything dear readers!!

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One Million page views for my blog–dotnetjalps.com

I have putted blogger statistics from its announcement(July 2010).  Today my statistics are showing that I have completed One million page views from July 2010. I feel honoured I have never assumed my blog will come this way. Earlier I had started this blog just for fun and to reserve my name with blogger subdomain. I was not aware that what is blogging and why we should do it. After some time almost after one year I realized the power of blog then and this 9th year I am continuously doing that. This is a great achievement and I feel honoured and awesome.

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Important Milestone achieved- 650th blog post

I am not super crazy about achieving mile stones but I just notice that I have completed 649 posts on blog. So I thought it will be good idea to write about few mile stones.

1. On April 2014, my blog completed 8 years. The first post I have ever written was at April 26,2006.
2. Today I have completed another important milestone this is 650th post I am writing and still going on. My passion for blogging never dropped I will still continue to write blog on my blog.

On this occasion, I would first like to thank my family who scarifies their time when I am writing blogs without their encouragement It would never possible to write blog and maintained it for almost 8 years.
I would also like to thank my readers. Without their love It would not have been possible to achieve this. Hopefully I will continue to write blog that will help you learn technology in some way.

Thanks again everybody for making this journey possible!!

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Free Get Involved Video from Scott Hanselman and Rob Conery

I have posted Why developer should blog? earlier where I have given various reasons why every developer should have a blog because it’s a great way to give back some thing to community and you can also market your self as a developer across community. Scott Hanselman and Rob Conery has created one of best video regarding same topic call Get Involved. Here they have explained how you can get out there and get involved with community with blogging, twitter, github , stackoverflow, user groups and conference. It will make you happier, more productive developer and inspire you take your career on next level.

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Creating a WordPress blog on azure websites

In this post we are going to learn how we can create WordPress blog with Azure web sites.

What is Azure Web Sites?

Before some time Microsoft has released Azure web sites for South East Asia region. Windows Azure web sites offers secure and flexible deployment and scaling options for any kind of web application. You can use your existing tools to create and deploy applications to Azure Websites.

Windows Azure web site provides following features.

• Provision and deploy fast
• Secure platform that scales automatically
• Great experience for Visual Studio developers. Even you can edit some code with online visual studio(Monaco).
• Open and Flexible for anyone
• Monitor and Alert
• Auto scale to optimize cost and performance
• A great gallery of most popular applications and easy direct deployment.

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Launching DotNetJalps Communities

Everyday I got lots of emails asking about technical things and Every time I am trying to give proper answer to them. But due to lack of time it was always not possible to reply all the emails as I have professional commitments also. So that’s why I decided to launch DotNetJalps community where people can ask questions and If I am not there then also another people can answer the question. Another benefit of communities will be the solution given in that particular answer will be visible to all the users of community.
So I have created Google+ community for that. Following is a link for that.

https://plus.google.com/communities/109749681215763540822

I request to ask your questions there instead of sending me emails and I would also encourage you participate in discussion. I am also going to share all my blog post there. You guys can also share your links and discuss various technology related things.

But please make sure there should technology related things only. So please join my community ask question and give answer to people.

Stay tuned for more!!

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PetaPoco series–DotNetJalps

Recently one of the friend ask to create list of post that I have written about PetaPoco this post is a complete list of all my PetaPoco related post.

What is PetaPoco?

PetaPoco is a Microsoft ORM developed by Top Ten Software. It was inpired by Massive and Dapper Micro ORM. Following is a link where you can get all information about PetaPoco.

http://www.toptensoftware.com/petapoco/

PetaPoco related blog posts on DotNetJalps:

Following is a complete list of PetaPoco posts that I have written on my blog. I will keep updating this list also for future posts about PetaPoco.

Get started with ASP.NET MVC and PetaPoco
PetaPoco with stored procedures
PetaPoco with parameterised stored procedure and Asp.Net MVC
CRUD operations with PetaPoco and ASP.NET MVC

Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more.

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Why multitasking does not work any more

Still lots of people thinks that multitasking is good. If you can do multitask then you are more productive.. Every employer loves this.. But wait are you sure you are more productive when you do multitasking nope I don’t think so.. Here are few reasons multitasking does not work any more..

Quality:

Have you ever checked quality of your work when you are doing multiple work. Have you ever carefully read your emails when you talk on phone or do other things while you are writing email. I have tried this many times and I have done many mistakes. When I tried to write emails while I am doing other things most I have made mistake like incorrect spelling,incorrect  grammar,forgot attachment etc. I am sure you all gone through this dilemma. From my experience whenever I have done multitasking I have loose quality of work. In today’s word quality is everything. Let’s take example of doctor they have to deal with patient’s life and disease and if they do not have quality then imagine what will be side effect of that on your body. So quality is everything and if you do two task or project at same time I am 100% sure you can not complete your work with 100% quality.

Focus:

When you do multitasking you are shifting your focus from one task to another task and you can not 100% involve your self with one task because your brain will  think about another task also. And if you loose your focus then it will automatically decrease your productivity.

It’s slowing you down:

Lots of people believe that multitasking is going to save your time but that is not true. Multitasking will slow you down..don’t believe yes it is right. Try a exercise write a business email while talking to your loved one and then measure time taken for writing this email and then think if you are writing email without concentrating on any other thing or phone how much time it will take I am sure you will feel that you can take much smaller amount time then writing email while talking on phone. So it will take longer then you expected because you are switching between phone and emails and your concentration also jumping from one thing to another thing.

Stress:

It will give you lots of stress when you do multiple things at single time because your focus is keep jumping from one thing to another thing and vice-versa. Your mind constantly remind you that you also need to concentrate on another thing also and you can not do efficient work on a single thing.

Memory:

Take an exercise.. Talk on a phone while watching TV.. then once you conclude try to remember thing that you watched on TV. I’m sure you are going to miss lots of important details. Because you are interrupting one task to suddenly focus on another task and ultimately you are going to loose important details and your memory will be poor.

There many more reasons why multitasking does not work but this are top five reason why multitasking is not going to work for human beings. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more..

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