Application Generation - Blogging

Comment on old blog postings here

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:16:00 -0400

I've added a place on the new blog for you to comment on any old postings - I'll copy the comments across to the old site manually if they add something to the discussion so the historic pages continue to be valuable.

Blogging: Back to Basics

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:20:00 -0400

I've made quite a few business related posts over the last few weeks as I've reviewed our business model at SystemsForge and have been thinking about how I think the market for semi-custom web applications is likely to play out over the next couple of years. Now I'm going to be getting back to the nitty gritty of some coding projects I need to deliver, so expect a bunch of postings on everything from form processors to ORMs.

Been Busy!

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:26:00 -0400

It's been a crazy few weeks. I just delivered a very intricate versioning based content management solution for a large private corporation, pulled together a mammoth visa application (hopefully I'll be considered an "extraordinary alien" :-) ) and worked on a number of smaller projects including an article on a Data Mapper (as LightWire is to Spring, so my Data Mapper is to Hibernate) for the Fusion Authority and (as a member of the programme committee) reviewing submissions for the Domain Specific Modeling Workshop at ooPSLA in Nashville next month. Next week I'll be presenting at the NY CFUG on "A Practical Guide to Object Oriented Programming", I owe Jeff my second article for the great new Flex Authority publication, and need to submit a presentation for the SPA conference next year. I also need to shepherd my visa application through, plan some serious upgrades to LightBase and perhaps consider a 1.0 release of LightWire with some AOP goodness before I fly back to the UK in a couple of weeks. I'll try to fit in some blogging as well :-) Oh, I also became a member of the Grand Havana Club, so if anyone likes cigars and is in NYC, drop me a line!

End of Year Stats for pbell.com

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:31:00 -0400

I thought it might be fun to start to keep track of some of my blog statistics to give an annual snapshot into the activity. After just over 18 months, according to blog CFC the states are:

Total postings: 824
Total comments: 3415
Total views: 833,420

Technorati shows 365 reactions, an authority of 48 and a rank of 162,356. Alexa gives a traffic rank of 392,265 and finds 62 links to the site.