Switch On The Code - Year End Review

Another year has come and gone, which means it's time for us to look back at 2011 and see what happened. This year marks the fifth anniversary of Switch On The Code and so far every year has been better than the last.

In February we saw our first ever month of 500k pageviews, and for the most part traffic has held steady ever since. We ended the year with an amazing 5.6 million pageviews - a 10% increase over the previous year.

Somehow we managed to publish 42 articles, which is pretty darn close to our goal of one article a week. If we look at every article, not just the ones created in 2011, the most popular last year were:

1. Using jQuery Slider to Scroll a Div - 203,127
2. An Absolute Beginner's Guide to iPhone Development - 171,959
3. C# Tutorial - Simple Threaded TCP Server - 168,562
4. C# Tutorial - Binding a DataGridView to a Database - 161,566
5. C# Tutorial - Image Editing: Saving, Cropping, and Resizing - 161,268

As always, we try to produce tutorials for newest and shiniest technologies, so last year we started creating tutorials for HTML 5, specifically canvas images and image rotation. We're going to be publishing several more HTML 5 related tutorials throughout this year while continuing to explore whatever other new technologies 2012 throws our way.

We always have big plans for Switch On The Code, including moving to cloud hosting, upgrading to Drupal 7, redesigning it, and lots of other small things. Hopefully 2012 will see the fruition of some of our plans, but if not, we'll continue to publish as many tutorials as possible and continue to grow with the community.

If you've got specific tutorial requests or any other random things to say - drop a line below in the comments or shoot us an email.