It’s Christmas Eve downunder – afternoon of the 24th of December. I have a bit of code to wrap up, so this will be a short post.
I’d like to thank the many people who have made 2008 a great year for me.
Firstly that’s you the reader, who helped take this blog from nothing in March into the top 1.25% at Technorati at one point this year. Readership of this blog has varied from a few a day initially to over 10,000 unique repeat visitors in November 2008.
Since November, admittedly there has been a huge drop. I have issues with this server, more on that soon, that are largely responsible for the drop and I have issues with a spam bot marketed, or at least credit card processed by, a major and well known service that serves the mISV community. More on that in 2009 too as I’m intending to name them – when I have all of my facts straight.
Next up there are some specific individuals who have contributed massively to my own efforts this year to get off the ground.
I won’t go into details as to how. I’d like to simply give them credit. If I don’t name you and you’ve been of assistance this year, it’s not because I’ve forgotten you, or because I don’t appreciate it, but rather I’m assuming you’re preference for anonymity.
These people include:
Julien Codorniou – Microsoft BizSpark
My wife and family for tolerating the whole process. 
And a list of others, some of who will be helping more in the future.
Without these folks I couldn’t have gotten anywhere at all, and despite no release as yet, I’ve gotten a hell of a lot further with what I’m working on – in a manner I could never have achieved without their assistance. In some instances this assistance was merely a pointed comment, a well thought out criticism or in some cases actual assistance with boot strapping.
So thank you all.
I took the opportunity to upgrade this blog to WordPress 2.7 today. A painless exercise thanks to an auto-upgrade plug-in I use. WordPress 2.7 it’s self of course includes auto-upgrade tools now anyway.
So far it’s pretty nice. A very nice Ajax admin section has been added in 2.7, layout is cleaner. So far the nicest looking WordPress yet.
I’m expecting the usual wave of script kiddie attacks in the coming weeks, as with every new release, but it seems to working nicely so far. Let me know if you have any issues.
If you celebrate Christmas than Merry Christmas to you and your family.
If you do not celebrate Christmas then best wishes to you and your family in any manner you feel most comfortable with. 
Scott Kane
Dec. 24th 2008
Thanks Scott, good luck with it. I’m looking forward to seeing the finished product!