As is tradition this time of year, here's my yearly review of happenings on codestore.

New Content

First let's see how the amount of new content I posted stacks up against previous years.

The amount of blogging and the amount of feedback is pretty much the same as 2007, which is reassuring. I'd be worried if the yearly decrease in activity continued. It's hard to keep it flowing what with work commitments and two kids under the age of two.

The obvious difference this year is that I haven't written an "article". I know most of you refer to anything on here as an article, but, to me, they're the full-length posts that don't appear as a part of the blog. What I've found is that a) I don't have time to write the full-length posts any more and b) I can get most of what I want to say across via the blog posts. This site has always evolved to my situation and I can see articles being used less and less.

Noteworthy Happenings / Content

Having just looked through all 115 blog entries from the year, here's what stands out for me:

• I won an award! Best Lotus Blogger 2007. Apparently.
• Embedded login forms. I thought this was obvious but a few of you seemed thankful.
• Flyout menus.
• Facebook-style Name Picker.
• InViewEdit without Ajax.
• Built a new HQ for Rockall.
• Many-to-Many Document Relationships in Notes
• Generating File Attachments in Agents Without Admin rights to server.
• I had a baby daughter!
• Over-haul of site's RSS feeds - including addition of comments feeds and full content.
• Faster logins in development environment.
• Human-readable Dates
• User-Entered HTML Validation
• XSS-Proofing Domino Forms.
• Domino Login with Ajax.
• Colour-coded Views Based on Document Age.
• DEXT made available for download. This one download contains all the usefulness mentioned above.

Each year I always think what on earth am I going to write about in the next year. I often think I'll run out of tips/tricks at some point. Things always come up though, as this year has shown. As for next year, who knows what will come up!?

Chances are that 2009 will see me talk about XPages, as I need to get up to speed on that and I'm sure you're dying to know my impressions. For the immediate future though you should expect a lot of talk about RIAs and, in particular, Adobe Flex!

Visitors

Never mind content. How popular was the site over the last year. Well, according to Google Analytics, 309,247 Absolute Unique Visitors amounted to 1,134,843 Page Views. I can't compare this to the previous year as I didn't start recording until March 2007. More than a million page views sounds alright to me though. Anybody know how much advertising revenue I'm missing out on?

Onwards...

So, here's to another year of techy geekness and to your continued input. Just remember, this site wouldn't continue if you weren't reading.

Next year will see this site's 10th birthday! Never thought that would happen.