Blog Year In Review

As usual, I'm celebrating the end of my blog's fiscal year on April 29, 2010... because that's the day of my first blog post. Also, I didn't want my "end of year" post to be drowned out by everybody else's end of year posts...

Anyway, at the end of my blog's year, I do some analysis on what posts were the most popular. I use Google Analytics on my blog to collect this info, ever since I found other engines to not be what I needed... see my post on how many hits does your site really get for more info.

Overall, the blog is still doing well... I got 182,364 page views, which is about 15% more traffic this year than last year... below are the top posts of 2009, according to Google:

• HTML 5 versus Flash and Flex: a post on the future of the web. I like Flash, but it is not the future, and anybody who builds upon it will be kicking themselves in 2 years. Steve Jobs agrees... (9342 views)
• The Best Fairy Tale EVER!: it made me believe in fairy tales...(4331 views)
• The Bucket List: what do you want to do before you die? And... what on earth are you waiting for? By the way... don't rob a bank(2782 views)
• How To Make A Decision: a look into the biology behind the decision making process in the brain, and how to hack your brain to make better decisions (1950 views)
• Scripting Oracle UCM with Jython: want to whip out an administrative script for UCM, but with the power of CIS? Simple: use Jython and RIDC. (1538 views)
• The Deep Dark Secret of Oracle UCM's Security Model: A historical post about why UCM developers designed the security model they did. (1503 views)
• Oracle UCM Rated a Leader in Gartner's Mystic Grid: Good news for the Oracle UCM team. Well done! (1314 views)
• Oracle Glassfish Supports Jython and Django: quick post on how Oracle is supporting open source frameworks (1076 views)
• Is the Roth IRA a Total Con? feeling cynical one day, I decided to do the math, and I could not justify the existence of the Roth IRA (873 views)
• How One Bad Business Process Doomed GM: a lesson on the rule of unintended consequences... one business process that seemed good at the time was left unattended for too long, and probably doomed General Motors to bankruptcy. (847 views)

So.. although this may seem a bit early -- or a bit late -- happy new year! And hopefully you're following you new years resolutions.