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by Martin Fowler.
Original Post: Bliki: Retread
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I don't like writing things that are ephemeral, I prefer to write
things that I think are going to stay useful for many years. That's
a big part of my philosophy with books, and it's my intention for
what's on this web site too. To a large extent, I feel I have
succeeded. If I look at the top ten pages on my site [1], I see Dependency
Injection (2004), Continuous Integration
(2006), Mocks Aren't
Stubs (2007), GUI
Architectures (2006), and The New Methodology (2005) in
the top ten. While I can always improve on articles [2] it's good to see things I've written several years ago still
being useful.
Despite the staying power of some popular articles, most of my
site gets much less traffic than a new post, so I've
decided to start a series of retread posts. A retread is a reposting
of an old post. I'll put it into my site feed and tweet it, just as
I do my new posts. I will clearly mark such posts as retreads. I
will check any post I retread and ensure it's still relevent and
worth reading now as it was then. I may make some corrections as I
do this, but I expect to mostly leave the posts as they were. I
expect to post a retread once or maybe twice a week.
1:
As measured by Google Analytics, looking at the period from Jun
1 to Sep 1 2011.
2:
Dependency Injection, in particular, could do with some
serious work to make it clearer and mention what has happened with
DI since I wrote it. It's on my (over-long) todo list.