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Friday Mar 05, 2010

Best of 2009 - Most Popular Posts (Dead DAOs, Bloat Without EJBs, Java EE vs. Spring, VOs vs. DTOs)

January: In The Age Of DRYness - Do We Really Need Naming Conventions For Interfaces? (11288 Views)
February: DAOs Aren't Dead - But They Either Collapsed Or Disappeared (9565 reads)
March: What You Can Build In 50 Minutes With Java EE 5/6? (25942 views)
April: Lean service architectures with Java EE 6 - And EJB 3 in particular (4304 views)
May: Netbeans 6.7 Beta + Maven = Heaven (more than promising) (11697 views)
June: Real World Java EE Patterns - Rethinking Best Practices Book And Project (15456 views)
July: Lean Java EE 6 Without Spring And Spring 3.0 In Java EE 6 World: Summary and Conclusion (eJug Session) (16203 views)
August: Value Object vs. Data Transfer Object (VO vs. DTO) (15928 views)
September: Why Oracle Should Continue To Push NetBeans (18974 views)
October: (JSF + JPA) - EJB = Bloat (17436 views)
November: Two Amazing NetBeans 6.8Beta Features (8877 views)
December: Java FX Composer / Designer for NetBeans 6.8 - First Smoke Test (15276 views)

The views above are monthly results - not overall views. The actual number should be much higher. RSS/Atom-Feed results are not even included in this statistic. The daily average ranged from 4.5k - 8k.

The stats for the year 2010 are more than promising. February is already the best month ever. Thanks for reading and especially the constructive 2.5k (!) comments.

Posted at 09:56AM Mar 05, 2010 by Adam Bien in Blog Statistics | Kommentare[0]

[my tweets] Rss My book: Real World Java EE - Rethinking Best Practices

Wednesday Jan 06, 2010

Top 5 Posts Of November - NetBeans 6.8, Sudden Death of Enterprise Projects, Jigsaw And Java EE 6 Kilobyte Deployment

Two Amazing NetBeans 6.8Beta Features (8877 views)
Sudden Death Of Enterprise Projects? (6379 views)
Modularization (Jigsaw), Multi-Catch And Probably Closures Will Make Into JDK 1.7 (5093 views)
Fire And Forget. Without JMS. With EJB 3.1 and 8KB WAR File (4405 views)
Java EE 6 Kills The WAR-Bloat - The KiloByte Deployment (4225 views)

and: 326041 direct requests , 74519 RSS reads and 22659 atom reads (best result ever)

Daily Avg. Visitors 6946 (October 7236)

Total Visitors 208407 (October 224329)

Total Hits: 680652 (October 775886)

In November I was a lazy blogger - so it wasn't the "best month ever". It was still twice as good, as last year. December and January are looking great again - so good, that I had to optimize the stats process.

Posted at 11:25AM Jan 06, 2010 by Adam Bien in Blog Statistics | Kommentare[2]

[my tweets] Rss My book: Real World Java EE - Rethinking Best Practices

Saturday Nov 14, 2009

Best Of October - JSF Without EJB = Bloat (17k), JSF 2 with NB 6.8 (10k), NB Features (7k)

(JSF + JPA) - EJB = Bloat (17436 views)
JSF 2 + JPA 2 + EJB 3.1 Scaffolding With Netbeans 6.8 in 3 Steps - And The Code Is Even Usable (10118 views)
NetBeans 6.8 m2 - Some Cool + Lightweight Java EE 6 Stuff (6972 views)

and: 376645 direct requests (best result ever), 83803 RSS (best result ever) reads and 21756 atom reads (best result ever)

Daily Avg. Visitors 7236 (September 7068) best result ever

Total Visitors 224329 (September 212058) best result ever

Total Hits: 775886 (September 789488)

Posted at 02:09PM Nov 14, 2009 by Adam Bien in Blog Statistics | Kommentare[0]

[my tweets] Rss My book: Real World Java EE - Rethinking Best Practices

Monday Oct 12, 2009

Best Of September - Oracle And NetBeans (19k) And Java EE Or .NET (13k)

Why Oracle Should Continue To Push NetBeans (18974 views)
Java EE or .NET - An Almost Unbiased Opinion (13461 views)
Sun And Oracle To Announce FlashFire (10938 views)
Are Naming Conventions Still Needed For Abstract Classes? (8904 views)

and: 376645 direct requests, 83692 RSS (best result ever) reads and 21756 atom reads.

Daily Avg. 7068 (August 6858) Visitors (best result ever)

Total Visitors 212058 (August 212607)

Total Hits: 789488 (August 822450)

Posted at 09:00AM Oct 12, 2009 by Adam Bien in Blog Statistics | Kommentare[0]

[my tweets] Rss My book: Real World Java EE - Rethinking Best Practices

Wednesday Sep 09, 2009

Best Of August - The Best Month Ever, VOs vs DTOs (16K) And Evil DTOs (10k)

Value Object vs. Data Transfer Object (VO vs. DTO) (15928 views)
How Evil Are Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)? (10837 views)
Java The Most Popular Language - ActionScript Is Followed By Fortran And Cobol (9895 views)
Simplest Possible EJB 3.1 / REST (JSR-311) Component (7668 views)
Netbeans 6.8m1 - The (lightweight) Java EE 6 IDE (7339 views)

and: 383037 direct requests, 74255 RSS reads and 22128 atom reads.

Daily Avg. 6858 (July 6313) Visitors (best result ever)

Total Visitors 212607 (July 195718) (best result ever)

Total Hits: 822450 (July 791340) (best result ever)

Posted at 11:21AM Sep 09, 2009 by Adam Bien in Blog Statistics | Kommentare[2]

[my tweets] Rss My book: Real World Java EE - Rethinking Best Practices

Saturday Aug 08, 2009

Best Of July - The Best Month Ever, Java EE vs. Spring (16k) and Where Is M. Jackson?

Lean Java EE 6 Without Spring And Spring 3.0 In Java EE 6 World: Summary and Conclusion (eJug Session) (16203 views)
java.net@JavaONE: Which Programming Language J. Gosling would use now, except Java? (13002 views)
In-Memory Java DB 15.0.1.1 - Perfect For JPA-Unit testing (11608 views)

21. Was Michael Jackson A Java Developer With JSON Expertise? (4078 views) - I was just curious what happens. This post wasn't as popular as predicted - the experiment is closed now. However, the Jackson parser really rocks.

and: 382418 direct requests, 82258 RSS reads and 19758 atom reads (all best results ever).

Daily Avg. 6313 Visitors (best result ever)
Total Visitors 195718 (best result ever)
Total Hits: 791340 (best result ever)
...and the August looks even better (7144 visitors a day).

Thanks to all readers, especially for the great feedback!

Posted at 11:08AM Aug 08, 2009 by Adam Bien in Blog Statistics | Kommentare[0]

[my tweets] Rss My book: Real World Java EE - Rethinking Best Practices

Sunday Jul 12, 2009

Best Of June - The Best Month Ever with Real World Java EE Patterns as Top Post (15k)

Real World Java EE Patterns - Rethinking Best Practices Book And Project (15456 views)
First Glance At JBoss 5.1 GA Admin Console - And Glassfish v2.1 Comparison (5968 views)
Generic CRUD Service aka DAO - EJB 3.1/0 Code - Only If You Really Needed (5204 views)
Unit Testing EJB 3.1 ...When 0.8 Seconds Are Too Long [SOURCE CODE INCLUDED] (3917 views)
How To Unit-Test EJB 3 ...in 0.8 Seconds [source code included] (3632 views)

and: 368493 direct requests, 82258 RSS reads and 15566 atom reads (all best results ever).

Daily Avg. 5249 Visitors (best result ever)
Total Visitors 157475 (March 09 was better)
Total Hits: 647276 (March 09 was better)

I didn't posted a lot in April and May because of the "Real World Java EE Patterns" book. These months are not as good as June. I will post the result in the next meta-post. However July seems to explode (around 9k visits a day) - will have to tweak the page a bit.

Posted at 11:22AM Jul 12, 2009 by Adam Bien in Blog Statistics | Kommentare[0]

[my tweets] Rss My book: Real World Java EE - Rethinking Best Practices

Friday Apr 03, 2009

Best Of March 2009 - 25k Views Of EJB 3 / Java EE 5 Post

What You Can Build In 50 Minutes With Java EE 5/6? (25942 views)
What You Can Build In 5 Minutes With Java EE 6 - ...and experimental features (12912 views)
Java EE 5 + 6 Application In 50 Minutes - Free Video Online (8109 views)
Netbeans 6.7m2 aka 7.0, The Magic Switch, GF v3 EA, The 40ms EJB Deployment And The Fat Container (7342 views)

and: 322336 direct requests, 80795 RSS reads and 13796 atom reads (all best results ever).

Daily Avg. 5231 Visitors (best result ever)
Total Visitors 162187 (best result ever)
Total Hits: 674129 (best result ever)

It seems like the Java EE 5 / EJB 3 posts are the most popular one. Now we know what we can build with plain Java EE 5 in 5 minutes, 50 minutes, but still not what is possible in 60 minutes. We will find it out at the JAX conference in Mainz :-).

Posted at 09:00AM Apr 03, 2009 by Adam Bien in Blog Statistics | Kommentare[3]

[my tweets] Rss My book: Real World Java EE - Rethinking Best Practices

Wednesday Mar 04, 2009

Best Of February 2009

and: 276215 direct requests, 70373 RSS reads and 1598 atom reads.

Daily Avg. 5168 Visitors (best result ever)
Total Visitors 144708
Total Hits: 561120

Posted at 09:00AM Mar 04, 2009 by Adam Bien in Blog Statistics | Kommentare[5]

[my tweets] Rss My book: Real World Java EE - Rethinking Best Practices

Monday Feb 02, 2009

Most Popular Entries In January (>10k Views) - The Best Month Ever!