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2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.

Crunchy numbers

A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times in 2010. That’s about 9 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 5 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 18 posts.

The busiest day of the year was June 10th with 92 views. The most popular post that day was Should i upgrade to new iphone 4g?.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were our.umbraco.org, twitter.com, darren-ferguson.com, kuerbo.com, and forum.umbraco.org.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for item has already been added. key in dictionary: ‘regex’ key being added: ‘regex’, ismail mayat, umbraco log4net, umbraco search, and umbraco global.asax.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Should i upgrade to new iphone 4g? June 2010
3 comments

2

Integrating log4net into Umbraco site. May 2009
7 comments

3

New search option for umbraco site May 2009
4 comments

4

urlrewriting application start issue May 2009
3 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,

5

Alternate templates with Mail engine April 2009
3 comments

Migrating from Immediacy to Umbraco

Read more about how to migrate from Immediacy to Umbraco via CMSImport

Codegarden 10 sheesha meetup

Those of you who follow me on twitter may have seen recent discussion between me, Bijesh, Soren and Morten regarding an evening meetup in Copenhagen.  We are looking to go for a sheesha smoke at a sheesha cafe google map location here.  Codegarden delegates are arriving on Tuesday or Wednesday depending on whether they are attending pre conference mvc training.  So here are some suggested days to meetup most votes wins.

After voting please can you leave a comment with your name and preferred day that way we have a good idea of numbers.

Should i upgrade to new iphone 4g?

Towards end of the month the new iphone 4g is out. I have 3gs with 1year still to go. O2 are providing early upgrade path which works out for me as £220 to pay up front.  If I sell my 3gs O2 recycle reckon I will get around £240.  My new 18 month contract will work up at £35 a month which is what I am currently on or 24month contract at £30 a month.

However I get less minutes (not an issue as i hardly talk on phone people usually ring me!), the worrying bit is i lose unlimited internet to 1GB a month however I dont think I ever get anywhere hear a GB a month.  So what do you guys think?

Codegarden 10

And that time of year is almost upon us thats right Codegarden 10 some of the things i am really looking forward to:

1. Pre conference MVC training
2. Canal boat evening cruise
3. Catching up Umbraco guru and all round master coder Aarron Powell to talk about Snapshot
4. Attending day 1 sessions on Examine / Contour / Secrets of umbaco ninjas / migrating to umbraco
5. Attending day 2 sessions Versioning umbraco development / Prepare for umbraco 5
6. Meeting old friends and new ones from the best and friendliest community bar none!

I just hope none of the sessions I want to attend clash.  This years codegarden is going to be the best yet and then some see you all there!

Ps I am staying at Wakeup Copenhagen

New job

Been a while since I last blogged, however finally have something to blog about. After 15 months with Connect I have decided to move on. I start my new job today with Cogworks in London, they’re doing some really cool stuff with Umbraco and I can’t wait to get stuck in!

Bar camp Blackpool

I am planning on attending barcampblackpool on the 17th of October, thats a Saturday 10am – late. More information here 125 people attending so far should be good. I missed the Liverpool barcamp and I am intending NOT to miss this one.  If your up feel free to say hello.

Roy Osherove is giving an hands-on TDD Masterclass in the UK

Roy Osherove is giving an hands-on TDD Masterclass in the UK, September 21-25. Roy is author of “The Art of Unit Testing” (http://www.artofunittesting.com/), a leading tdd & unit testing book; he maintains a blog at http://iserializable.com (which amoung other things has critiqued tests written by Microsoft for asp.net MVC – check out the testreviews category) and has recently been on the Scott Hanselman podcast (http://bit.ly/psgYO) where he educated Scott on best practices in Unit Testing techniques. For a further insight into Roy’s style, be sure to also check out Roy’s talk at the recent Norwegian Developer’s Conference (http://bit.ly/NuJVa).

Full Details here: http://bbits.co.uk/tddmasterclass

bbits are holding a raffle for a free ticket for the event. To be eligible to win the ticket (worth £2395!) you MUST paste this text, including all links, into your blog and emailIan@bbits.co.uk with the url to the blog entry.  The draw will be made on September 1st and the winner informed by email and on bbits.co.uk/blog

Google map geocoding for the UK

Those of you based in the UK who have created Googlemap mash ups in your umbraco sites or any other site for that matter, may have come across geo coding issues for UK post codes.  In some instances they can be out by quite a bit.  The actual google website is accurate however doing a look up via the api sometimes is not.  Its all to do with Royal mail licensing. Anyhow there is a hack and it works see here.