Schonhose

The last day of 2007 brings us another WordPress update (Version 2.3.2) and the opportunity to look back what has happened on my blogs the last 12 months.

Both January and February were dominated with posts concerning the bad weather we’re having at that time. March was a really exiting month. After a good look at the code of my previous self-written content management system it made me realize that a complete overhaul was in order. However, with my schedule this seemed undo-able so I settled with WordPress instead. As a theme I choose the excellent Redoable theme.

April rolled around and Pixelpost 1.6 was released to the general public. May, June and July were kind of slow, featuring some tips for .htaccess and PHP issues. During that time I received some complaints about my site being slow. In August I switched to a new template (still in use this day) which was a tremendous change in responsiveness. The first information about the excellent anti-spam solution Defensio was published on this blog in September and I started to write some code to use it with Pixelpost also.

October proved to be a troublesome month. On October 16th I discovered my blog literally was set back into time two months. All the posts, updates and stuff were gone and no backup existed. The site of my girlfriend was totally vanished and had to be rebuild from the ground up. Needless to say this took quite some time. The end of October also marked an important change: I decided to accept donations through Paypal.

Defensio went live in November, providing a better spam solution (then Akismet) for the general public. Small code changes were made to the website during October and November, most notable the new download section. A couple of addons for Pixelpost were updated.

December 2007 started with troubles with the Pixelpost.org domain name. We basically forgot to renew the domain, so it took some days to get that fixed. New addons for Pixelpost were released into the wild.

Looking back at 2007 it was quite a productive year. Let’s hope 2008 well be as productive as 2007 was. I got a couple of things I really want to finish in 2008 (things like a rewrite of the Googlemap addon, among others), so look for exiting things to come next year.

Thanks for the visits, the comments and the support. I hope to see you again next year.

Happy new year everyone!!!!