--- title: Top blog posts in 2008 | daily.dev description: A year-end recap from a blogger listing the five most popular posts from 2008, covering PHPExcel business logic reuse, Visual Studio 2008 performance... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/top-blog-posts-in-2008-8wibtgpal twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Top blog posts in 2008 | daily.dev og:description: A year-end recap from a blogger listing the five most popular posts from 2008, covering PHPExcel business logic reuse, Visual Studio 2008 performance... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/top-blog-posts-in-2008-8wibtgpal og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8WIBTGpal.png og:image:alt: Top blog posts in 2008 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Top blog posts in 2008 **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A year-end recap from a blogger listing the five most popular posts from 2008, covering PHPExcel business logic reuse, Visual Studio 2008 performance profiling, ASP.NET load balancing and session state, an ASP.NET MVC GridView, and an MVC sitemap provider. The post also reflects on blog traffic (115,988 visits in the year), PHPExcel reaching 120,000 downloads, and previews plans for 2009 including continued PHPExcel/PHPLinq development and an upcoming ASP.NET MVC book with Packt Publishing. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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