---
title: "Enlightenment"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/9/enlightenment.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/9/enlightenment.html"
published: "2003-05-09T20:42:00"
updated: "2003-05-09T20:42:00"
tags: [".NetWeblogs Site", "Blogging"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "If your blog doesn't have a page piews counter yet, I suggest getting one.At least until we get page view statistics from Scott(hopefully, RSS feed statistics as well). It's a masochistic an addictively enlightening…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Enlightenment

By Roy Osherove May 9, 2003 In [.NetWeblogs Site](https://osherove.com/blog/category/netweblogs-site), [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 9, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

If your blog doesn't have a  [page piews counter](http://www.nedstatbasic.net/) yet, I suggest getting one.At least until we get page view statistics from Scott(hopefully, RSS feed statistics as well).

It's ~a masochistic~ an addictively enlightening experience.

## More in .NetWeblogs Site

[All posts in .NetWeblogs Site](https://osherove.com/blog/category/netweblogs-site)

- May 15, 2003

    ### [Blog style change](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/15/blog-style-change.html)

- May 10, 2003

    ### [Mort Banner - Revised](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/10/mort-banner-revised.html)

- May 9, 2003

    ### [Welcome Philip , Interviews, "as" Vs. Casting](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/9/welcome-philip-interviews-quotasquot-vs-casting.html)

- May 8, 2003

    ### [The Unofficial "Mort" Logo Is Available](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/8/the-unofficial-quotmortquot-logo-is-available.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

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### Contact

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/