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I still clearly remember staying late at the office after reading this inspirational post by Scott Hanselman asking myself why not to start a new blog, I have a good knowledge in the ASP.NET stack so why not to share this with the community through writing blog posts.

So, on April 1st, 2013 I decided to establish my blog bitoftech.net and start writing, but I felt there are a lot of barriers coming in front of me and suspicious questions surrounding me such as: Am I writing about a topic that hundreds wrote about it already? Is this topic I’m going to blog about is so trivial? Who are my audience? Am I going to write for no one? And a lot of other negative questions surrounded me and I didn’t find the answer to them.

I determined to ignore all those negative questions and start writing my first two posts, I picked very simple topics and published them, I will be honest it was a terrifying feeling when I hit that Publish button for the first time! Questions pass your mind after you publish your first post, like who are going to read my posts? What readers are thinking of my skills? Am I providing the audience a value or just wasting their time reading nothing? I was happy that time with the very small number of readers which didn’t get over 50 visits per month and with no comments left! Then I stopped writing totally for six months, there was no reason to stop other than I felt it is hard to be consistent, and consistency is crucial if you want to build a successful blog.

I knew inside my self that I’m better than this, and I can commit and be consistent. I have the passion for the things I do, so in early November 2013 and while I was learning ASP.NET Web API, I decided to to share my learning experience with the community, I am a strong believer of the quote that says: “If you want to master a thing, then teach it!“. So I decided to compile a series of posts about building RESTful service using ASP.NET Web API, and from no where the ASP.NET team decided to feature my posts on their home page, I started to receive ten of thousands of visits weekly, comments were left thanking me on the detailed style of writing/teaching and how I simplify the complex technical topics.

When I started blogging I never expected that one day my posts will get featured on ASP.NET, this gave me a huge boost and motivated me to learn more, blog more, and share my knowledge with the community more. From now on I became a consistent blogger and no month passes without writing minimum 2-3 posts.

Now and after one year of consistent blogging, I look at bitoftech.net in a different way. It contains 40 posts, more than 870,000 page views, 350,000 unique visitors left more than 1,800 comments, 100,000 words have been written, and 1,100 loyal blog readers subscribed. I never expected to achieve those stats in one year of hard working!



It is a great feeling when I know that the time I’ve invested in my blog and the efforts I put in writing those blog posts or sharing the tutorials on my GitHub repository (more than 450 stars) are being used and referenced by developers all over the world, really this brings happiness and satisfaction for me! I really get excited when I receive a comment or a thank you message!

So today I’ve just received an email from Microsoft telling me that I’ve been awarded for the first time the 2015 Microsoft® MVP Award in ASP.NET/IIS 🙂



I really was not thinking about this award when I started blogging or working with the community, this award comes naturally as a recognition for all the hard work done in the past year, and I’m definitely sure that my blog is the main reason behind this award. Blogging brought many opportunities such as speaking in local events, providing consultation services and who knows maybe speaking in international conferences in the near future 🙂 I can’t wait to attend the MVP Global Summit in Redmond – USA and interact with Microsoft product groups and other MVPs from all over the world.



For anyone reading this and doesn’t know what is Microsoft MVP Award check this link.

Without you I wouldn’t achieve this!

Before I end this post I have to thank the people who really helped and inspired me during the past year:

And I can’t end this without thanking you, yes you who are reading my posts to the end, who shared my previous posts, who dropped me a comment saying thanks for the efforts, or asking a question! You are the reason for inspiring me to learn more, share more, and blog more!

No one can feel the excitement and joy of blogging and sharing knowledge if s/he didn’t try it, so my recommendation to you and if you are willing to blog is to go and do it NOW, not tomorrow. Do not be shy, just start sharing your ideas with the community and I’m sure your journey will be fruitful!

If you need any help or you have doubts about starting a blog, just drop me a comment and I will be more than happy to help!

I’ve really big big dreams to achieve, I’m so thankful that 2015 started in a great way, and I’ll keep in my mind that success is an endless journey, once you are on track, you do not have to stop ever!

Happy new year my Friends!