Blogging Year In Review: 2005

Another year draws to a close. Rather than going through the year's events month by month like I did last year, I thought I'll just do some work with the log files and come up with the years top blogs.

I used this awk script extract URLs from log files:

{
  if (match($0, /.*\[(.*)\] *"GET ([^ ]*2005[^ ]*)" .*/, a) > 0) {
    print a[2];
  }
}

And I used a simple Java program to do the counting and sorting.

Here's the top 15 postings this year.

• Native XML Comes To Firefox 1.5's JavaScript (2665 hits)
• Native Eclipse Comes To Linux (2631 hits)
• GCC 4.0.0 Released, Supports Free Software Java (1978 hits)
• Questioning AJAX (1950 hits)
• LimeWire: The Killer Java Desktop App? (1754 hits)
• NetBeans vs. Eclipse---Why Not Both? (1727 hits)
• NetBeans Is Not Open Source! (1494 hits)
• There Is No Such Thing As A "Java Architect"... (1321 hits)
• Re: Who Are These People (was: Re: Open Source JVM Proposal On The Table At Apache Software Foundation) (1208 hits)
• Java People, Stop Worrying and Start Coding! (1063 hits)
• Guys, TurboGears Is Every Bit As Compelling As Rails (995 hits)
• Seven Reasons To Go With OpenOffice.org 2.0 (956 hits)
• Spring Framework Has A Competitor Now (949 hits)
• C++, Boost, Template Meta-Programming, ... (800 hits)
• Does It Work? (798 hits)

Thank you for reading this blog. I wish you a Happy New Year!

See you next year.