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Blogging: Two years have passed

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Blogging: Two years have passed

Two years ago, in the 31st December 2005, I started this blog. It doesn't feel at all that two years have passed. Last year when the blog did one year I presented the blog status regarding the experience, this year I'll be doing the same.

Status

Last year when it was announced this blog's first year, I was very satisfied with the results. Looking at this year visitors' report and feedback that has been received through comments and email I can only say that I'm even more enthusiastic.
Even though this year I didn't post as often as I did in 2006 the number of visitors and the feedback on each post was much higher.
Actually the traffic for this blog has been increasing during this year, as it can be seen in the table below.
Anyone interested in numbers can compare the table below, with the one in Blogging: One year has passed:

Month	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Jan	953	1902	10734	30180	273.03 MB
Feb	687	1725	10719	21566	241.27 MB
Mar	740	2001	12944	31381	328.15 MB
Apr	735	2087	12363	45526	346.72 MB
May	821	1775	9131	24660	194.02 MB
Jun	973	2380	11507	31872	247.20 MB
Jul	3046	4880	17396	132083	728.17 MB
Aug	1736	3119	12541	56045	423.31 MB
Sep	1749	3862	16430	61775	486.17 MB
Oct	1478	4495	13624	68576	475.04 MB
Nov	1667	4828	16424	59579	467.19 MB
Dec	1906	5431	18879	62965	545.45 MB
Total	16491	38485	162692	626208	4.64 GB

This year there are various posts that I think are worth mentioning. From the beginning of the year there's a three post series about Domain Driven Design, which sadly I haven't continued yet:

Another series that has been created is the Java Programming series, which had interesting posts such as:

Also worth mentioning is the announcement of a SnipSnap fork, as can been read in

SnipSnap Developing: Planning a fork and that a few weeks ago I became part of the new SnipSnap developing team, as mentioned in

Software Developing: The SnipSnap Saga.

Finally, I want to thank all the readers for reading, commenting and emailing me. I blog for the pleasure of writing and sharing my ideas but, without the readers this blog wouldn't be complete.
Special thanks go to jpmsi and m4ktub for all the technical criticism they've been giving in the Java Programming and Domain Driven Design series, and also to AdaHsu and derjohn for all the feedback and suggestions regarding the SnipSnap developing.

2008 RoadMap

In my opinion, during 2007 I managed to improve content quality and the writing itself, for the next year I plan to keep improving both. As a preview, more articles regarding Java and Domain Driven can be expected and also analysis of other languages that can ran in the JVM, such as Scala and Groovy. Some other topics (and new formats of presenting information) are under study but I won't reveal them yet, otherwise there would be no surprise.

An excellent 2008 for everyone!

m4ktub, 185 days ago.

I believe you've forgotten the pretty graphs. Don't worry I've made some for you :-D

pabrantes, 185 days ago.

It seems I also have to thank you for the shiny graphs smiley

They really look good, and I have to admit that it's easier to visualy read them, instead of the "ugly" table.

In my opinion there is only one slight problem in the first graphic which is mixing metrics that have different orders of magnitude such as the Number of Visits Versus Bandwith.

Once again, thank you for the graphics!

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