It’s end of January 2012 by now, but I decided to share some stats on what was going on with this blog in 2011. If you fancy reading my stuff (is there anybody? 
) you might find it interesting.
Let’s get down to the business:
- only 3 posts that year
busy? lazy? …?
- nevertheless, I was observing constant interest growth (more and more vistst, by Google Analytics):
- 196,717 Visits (+45% comparing to 2010)
- 178,770 Unique Visitors (+46% comparing to 2010)
- 222,258 Pageviews (+42% comparing to 2010)
- most popular post: C#, decimal.toString(), and how to get rid of trailing zeros – 17,302 pageviews
A few days ago I decided to add ‘Donate’ button on my blog (see the sidebar to the right). This is a feature provided by PayPal.
If you want to prove you are really delighted with my help or simply you have too much spare money , it’s possible to pay me a kind of tip. That can be a dollar or two, that’s not really important; every little helps. All in all that could help pay for the hosting.
Of course I’m still blogging for fun so treat this as a feature – use it only if you really want to
Recently I’ve read a kind of summary post of my friend where he described his blog in numbers. I thought this is a great idea – those who follow a blog get more background on its existence.
Let me describe my blog in numbers, if you like:
- 27 months – first post was published on April 14th, 2007
- 148 posts
- 435 comments
- I started tracing visitors (with Google Analytics) on March 16th, 2008 (a year after first post) – 210,000 visitors ever since
- best referring sites: google search (172k visitors), dzone.com (3k), reddit.com (2.6k), bing search (2.5k), yahoo search (2.2k), stackoverflow.com (1.2k)
- 1 DZone Big Link: Exeptions and Errors in Java
- I have been invited to DZone?s Most Valuable Blogger lodge (more details)
Many thanks to all that have helped achieving these results. Thanks for thank-you comments, crutial remarks and suggestions to what I’ve published, and just visting my site.
A while ago, on April 6th, one of my posts, Exeptions and Errors in Java, became a DZone Big Link. As a result, the link was tweeted automatically and is available at DZone’s Twitter. I was really happy to be noticed in Web
But today I got pleased even more! I was noticed again; I received invitation to join DZone’s Most Valuable Blogger program. What it is, according to DZone:
DZone’s Most Valuable Blogger program brings together a group of highly talented bloggers, authors, and technologists actively writing about topics of interest to the developer community. These people are recognized in the industry for their contributions and deep technical knowledge on subjects ranging from software design and architecture to programming on a range of platforms including Java, .NET, Ruby and others.
You can see the list of MVBs at Meet the DZone MVBs. At the moment there are about 200 people listed and, as far as I have noticed, only a couple of them lives in Poland.
Update, 2010-07-12
I am now officially an MVB!
Update, 2010-07-23
Just got an MVB t-shirt too
After some time I’ve updated my CV (in English and Polish). In short, this is what has happened in the meantime:
- I was responsible for implementation of a part of the internal service for a subsidiary of Northern Ireland Electricity (ASPX on SharePoint)
- I was part of the team who created for an Irish customer a complete online planning solution (MonoRail, JavaScript, C#, Reporting Services, SQL Server 2005, ActiveRecords)
- I passed Sun Certified Java Programmer (2008), result: 94%
Time went fast since my declaration. I didn’t have much time and willigness to study but I gained them recently and finally did it: from today morning I’m a Sun Certified Java Programmer. The score: 94%.
If you’re planning to take it too, I wish you luck.
It was almost a year ago when I graduated from Gdansk University of Technology, major Distributed Applications and Internet Systems. The title of my Master’s Thesis was “Social Semantic Information Sources for eLearning”. All in all, I forgot to present the thesis… So, here it goes
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You can also download the thesis from Library@DERI.Galway. Apart from that, you can find there more papers of mine on Library@DERI.Galway.
I’ve updated my CV:see English or Polish version.
Appart from that, I’ve updated my LinkedIn profile.
It’s very up to date now. Feel free to read it if you’re interested
I’ve just changed the engine for my blog from WordPress 2.3 to WordPress 2.5.
The change is not visible for the reader but there’s a lot going on in the dashboard, starting with the layout, dashboard widgets, multiple file upload, etc… To get the full list of the changes, please look at the official WordPress blog.
A few days ago I made a few major changes on my blog:
The engine change went OK. Once I updated the files, there was a imprefections in querying database, but clicking the suggested link on wp-admin page solved them all.
Currently, when I have some free time I browse plugins and themes – still can find something better/new. So far, I’ve installed the following plugins and I’m happy with them (the descriptions used there come from the home pages of that plugins):
- All in One SEO Pack – automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).
- Google Code Prettify – this plugin using google-code-prettify to highlight source code in your posts.
- Google XML Sitemaps – this plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO.
- Lightbox 2 – used to overlay images on the current page.
- pb-techTags – enhances the_tags() by adding a link to Technorati to each tag.
- SIOC Plugin – adds SIOC metadata export to WordPress blog.
- Slashdigglicious – add user-submission icons and links at the bottom of each post: Digg, del.icio.us, etc.
- Snap Shots Plugin – add Snap Shots to your website or blog. Snap Shots enhance links with visual previews of the destination site, including summaries of Wikipedia and IMDb, YouTube videos, stock charts, RSS feeds and more with just a single line of javascript.
- SpamBam – a plugin that hopefully eliminates comment spam.
- wp-cache – very fast cache module. It’s composed of several modules, this plugin can configure and manage the whole system.
If you can recommend other plugins, don’t hesitate to do that – just describe them in a comment to that post. Cheers!
