Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

So long 2009, Welcome 2010!

2009 is one of those unforgettable years in my life, both at personal and professional levels. Some success, some failures, some struggles and some achievements – overall, 2009 had been a well balanced in terms of events. Well, I’m not going to discuss all of those here because if I do, you might click on the ‘X’ on the top-right of your screen. Instead, I’ll just record some of my thoughts that are related to this blog alone. Let’s start:

I was more active in blog than the previous year:

Yes, I was. You can see that yourself by looking at the post count in the Sidebar Archives section. Out of the 175 posts that I published till now, 121 posts were published this year. July 2009 tops the ranking with 18 posts!

My Blog performed very well in 2009:

My active blogging was reflected by the good amount of traffic that my blog recieved. Here’s a snapshot of my blog’s traffic stats from WordPress.

Blog Traffic Stats

And my post “Closing the last tab in Firefox 3.5” was one of the popular post with more than 8000 views this year, while my other article “15+ creative Java applications based on Netbeans platform” was featured in Netbeans.org home page.

‘United’ stats for veerasundar.com/blog:

Well, I meant the ‘combined’ stats, not USA! anyway, here’s the comparision between my last year’s stats and the current year’s.

stats for what? 2009 2008
Views 172,932 21,000
Number of Posts 175 54
Comments 780 180
RSS Subscribers - Subscribe! 200+ 28
Google Friend Connect Members 16 N/A
Spam comments! :) 4032 854

That’s some good stats, isn’t it?

On the Dev side, I released 3 apps:

While I was working/blogging hard, I was also spending some time to realize my ideas. I released three applications, well each of them were developed using different technology. Here are they for you:

CSS Sorter is a Java application that sorts the CSS rules alphabetically.

Timelinr is a PHP based web application to create timelines online.

Stockr is a Firefox extension for tracking share prices online.

Thank you, my Readers! YOU made this possible:

Yeah, all these numbers were came true, only because of you, my readers. I thank you for supporting me through out this year and I wish you a happy and prosperous new year 2010. lets welcome the new year together! :)

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tahirakram December 30, 2009 at 10:59 am

Thats really really inspiring. I hope your 2010 will be more useful, energetic and fruitful more than 2009.

Keep the good work going on and bring us more intresting things to read. :)

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Veera December 30, 2009 at 11:34 am

Thanks, Tahir.

Wish you a happy new year!

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Pavan Somu December 30, 2009 at 2:57 pm

Its very great work. COngrats

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JB December 31, 2009 at 1:58 am

Congrats. Come with more posts in new year.

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Veera December 31, 2009 at 2:40 am

thanks, Pavan.

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Veera December 31, 2009 at 2:41 am

sure JB. Thanks for the wishes!

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Chaitanya December 31, 2009 at 11:46 am

Veera,

You also share some really good info. Keep posting.

All the very best for 2010.

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Veera December 31, 2009 at 1:28 pm

Thanks, Chaitanya.

Wish you a happy new year!

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