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The Best of Bill - 2008

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

It's time for the last post of 2008. On December 31, 2004, I created a "Best of Bill" posting for 2004 and it was quite popular (based on the number of unique hits the posting got). So, I continued the tradition each successive year after that. Since 2007 my year-end posting has been cumulative, so it includes the best postings from previous years as well. The latest cumulative summary is always available from the side bar (via the "Best Posts" link).

You can always find my past weblog postings by either drilling down from the monthly summaries (available when you click on the month name in the calendar in the side bar or by clicking on the month name in the summary below) or by using the search utility (also in the side bar). It's hard to know which posts others find most interesting, but hit counts and email comments seem to be as good a measure as any. So, a feature that I introduced to the summary (from 2006 onward) is that I've flagged (using "[*]" as the "flag") the posts that either got the most "hits" on my blog each month or ones that resulted in a significant amount of email to me. However, when one of my posts appears on Reddit or Digg, that always drives up the page count even though the post may not be what I would have considered one of my "better" posts. So, I use some "subjective" assessment as well as raw numbers in my rankings. For a number of months, it was too close to call, so I flagged multiple high-ranking posts for those months.

I have deliberately tried to leave out of the summary any postings that are personal, or product/meeting announcements, or non-Lisp related (although my definition of "lisp-related" might be fairly "broad" in some cases ;-) ).

My five "most popular" posts of the past year were:

  1. What Emacs is to editors, Stumpwm is to window managers
  2. Clojure could be to Concurrency-Oriented Programming what Java was to OOP
  3. Hacking the OLPC XO Laptop - Part 1: Initial Setup
  4. Understanding SLIME (Using Emacs and Lisp Cooperatively)
  5. My Lisp-centric "Good Easy"
Best wishes for the New Year and here is the 2003-2008 summary:

2008:
  1. January:
  2. February:
  3. March:
  4. April:
  5. May:
  6. June:
  7. July:
  8. August:
  9. September:
  10. October:
  11. November:
  12. December:

2007:

  1. January:
  2. February:
  3. March:
  4. April:
  5. May:
  6. June:
  7. July:
  8. August:
  9. September:
  10. October:
  11. November:
  12. December:

2006:

  1. January:
  2. February:
  3. March:
  4. April:
  5. May:
  6. June:
  7. July:
  8. August:
  9. September:
  10. October:
  11. November:
  12. December:

2005:

  1. January:
  2. February:
  3. March:
  4. April:
  5. May:
  6. June:
  7. July:
  8. August:
  9. September:
  10. October:
  11. November:
  12. December:

2004:

  1. January:
  2. February:
  3. March:
  4. April:
  5. May:
  6. June:
  7. July:
  8. August:
  9. September:
  10. October:
  11. November:
  12. December:

2003:

  1. August:
  2. September:
  3. October:
  4. November:
  5. December:

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