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My Bests of 2008

In the end of 2005 I wrote a blog post with my best picks for that year, but I didn’t have such a post in the past couple of years. I thought it’s better to take that style again because it may make me feel younger! Now that I review that old post, I understand that how experience can change a mind! That year I had loved anything came out of Microsoft, but now I’m not willing to talk about this fat elephant anymore!

By the way, 2008 was a better year than 2006 and specifically 2007, and I think that world had a better position in this year. This time I want to choose a few items but detail my reasons for choosing them.

So here is the list:

• Software product: Windows Server 2008 is the best software that I’ve used in 2008. Although my hostility against Microsoft is burgeoning everyday, it’s a matter of a fact that Windows Server stays at the top of the Microsoft products stack, and generally Windows Server products have been very successful. I really liked the power of Windows Server 2008 and used it frequently. The way that administration is made easier in this version, and the way that you can apply modern features in an operating system and/or web server is totally alluring.
• Community evolution: Visual Studio Extensibility has been a part of Visual Studio for almost ten years, and it never received such an extensive attention. In 2008 Microsoft put a huge effort in this area and built a community of very experienced developers under the VSX umbrella. To be honest, Visual Studio Extensibility had a fast growth in 2008 and could find a good position regarding that it’s one of the difficult areas of Microsoft software development.
• Web browser: Google Chrome was the best browser but not for its technical features. I liked it because it broke the browsers war and let us live with less noise by Firefox fans, such as that downloads record that didn’t add anything to this world!
• Website: Twitter had such a great success in this year. Despite the fact that Twitter has been alive for a longer while, they believed the necessity to scale up and transit from the role of personal status updater to the role of connecting people together. But I can predict that Twitter can’t keep its progress for 2009 because it’s being saturated with people who are trying to promote something, and it distracts many guys including myself!
• Singer: Shahram Nazeri is a Kurdish/Persian signer who was born in Kermanshah, and is known for his leading position in our folklore and traditional music. He has a burning passion for Rumi lyrics, and recently has been trying to apply western themes in his works mostly inspired by his son, Hafez, who has studied Western Classic Music in New York. The Book of Austerity is definitely the best album that I’ve listened to in 2008, and it’s the best pick from many Western and Eastern albums in my list. Here they didn’t allow Shahram to distribute this album inside country, but it could become such a great work among listeners. Sorrow song is a unique piece in this album.
• Movie: Some people may think that The Dark Knight is just an action movie but a great movie in its genre but in reality it’s something beyond this. I loved the movie for the story that it has, and because it’s exhibiting our world with its words!
• Soccer club: Manchester United was the best soccer club in the world, and no one can gainsay that. The Red Devils rocked through the year especially in the first half.

While there are some good stuff to talk about, there were also serious challenges in different areas, and we even had some obvious worst picks in this year. Blogging and article writing on the .NET community didn’t pass a good year, and community was far from its best days. World had some serious problems and as a highlight, it was challenged by the Economy Crisis. Despite all the stupid laws that only restrict and annoy ordinary people in some countries and boosts the hostility, terrorism has been extending all over the world and it’s foolish to assert that they could restrict it!

All in all, I hope that 2008 was a good year for you, and you also have a much better year in 2009. 2008 was not a good year for me and supplemented my bad 2007, but 2009 is going to be the most sensible year of my life and may be a great year!

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