To continue on with an idea that Will Strohl gave me yesterday with his end of the year blog entry. I thought I would take some time and do the same here. A bit of a "year in review" if you will of the things that I think have been notable accomplishments in 2008 as well as a few thank you's along the way.
2008 Accomplishments
To start off the following is a list of items that I consider "accomplishments" of 2008. These are in no particular order
- Answered over600 questions on StackOverflow.com
- Made over 3000 posts to the DotNetNuke Forums
- Made over 200 posts to Microsoft Forums
- Became Team Lead for the DotNetNuke Documents Module project
- Gave presentations to both the Iowa .NET User Group and at Iowa Code Camp
- Officially started the Iowa DotNetNuke User Group
- Posted 109 blog entries to this site
- Winner of awards from Community-Credit in three separate months
- Received nomination for Microsoft MVP award, although was not given the award.
- Redesigned and launched new sites for MitchelSellers.com and IowaComputerGurus
- Increased my consulting business revenues by almost 300% when compared to 2007
- Attained Microsoft Certified Partner status for IowaComputerGurus Inc.
- Wrote Professional DotNetNuke Module Programming
to be released early 2009
- Completed at least 20 releases of free modules/products
- Increased traffic to this site by 187% to almost 165,000 visits in 2008
- many more items
I am sure that there are many more items that I missed in that list, but overall I think it is a pretty good list of items that I have managed to tackle in 2008, and 2009 has many more opportunities in store.
Thank You
I'm not even going to try to reach out thank specific individuals as I know I would end up missing but rather I want to send out an all-encompassing thank you to everyone. To my clients, readers of this blog, community members that I have shared conversations with, and to those people that push me to not only step up my involvement but encourage me to continue improving the quality of the items that I put out.
2009 is already starting off on the right foot and I have many exciting new items planned. Including the long-overdue Quiz module and a small vacation in March, to help recharge the energy banks! May everyone have a happy new year! As always share any comments below, and if there is something you would like to see from me in 2009, let me know that as well.