.. title: Happy 10th blogiversary to me!
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.. date: 2010/01/19 14:12
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Since yesterday this blog is `ten years old <//ralsina.me/weblog/posts/ADV0.html>`_ so, time for some history.

It all started in `advogato <http://advogato.org>`_ where you could still `read it today <http://advogato.org/person/ralsina/>`_! (Please read it here instead ;-)

Then it moved to PyDS an early python desktop blog platform with a web interface, and was hosted in PyCS, a free service.

Then PyCS kinda died, and I started generating a static blog and hosting it in my ISP's free hosting. That sucked *bad*.

Then I started my own company, and I had my own servers, so I started hosting it there (even today this blog is completely static HTML!)

Then PyDS started acting weird, so I wrote `my own blogging software <//ralsina.me/stories/BBS41.html>`_, which is a real mess, perhaps 25% finished, but it does things *exactly* the way I like them.

Currently, this blog is syndicated in Planeta PyAr, Planet Python, Planet Qt, Planeta LUGLI, and a couple other places.

This year, I decided to make the blog completely bilingual (English and Spanish), but I hate translating it.

According to the stats I have available, the blog is in average more popular now than ever (but yes, my most popular posts were years ago ;-)

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These are the most popular pages in the last year:

* `PyQt By Example <//ralsina.me/stories/BBS47.html>`_

  Each of the parts of this series is in the top ten most visited pages. So, I really need to write more in this area since it seems to be what brings people to the site.

* `Responding to random blog posts. <//ralsina.me/weblog/2009/06/23.html>`_

  A post explaining how another blogger is wrong. I think I make a good point, even if it's a bit cheap as a way to bring readers.

* `Queue Management for Qmail <//ralsina.me/stories/8.html>`_

  Oldie but goodie... not really useful nowadays.

* `How to make your own distro <//ralsina.me/stories/38.html>`_

  Yikes, people, stop reading this, it's just wrong :-(

* `Python Keyring is seriously nice <//ralsina.me/weblog/posts/BB858.html>`_

  Finally something recent!

* `What I do for a living <//ralsina.me/weblog/posts/BB859.html>`_

  Another new post, I like it a lot.

* `The Linux Booting Process Unveiled <//ralsina.me/stories/23.html>`_

  A didactic post. I think it's still the better explanation on the subject I've seen around, if I may say so myself. For extra irony points, my `current distro <http://archlinux.org>`_ doesn't follow this.

* `Creating presentations using restructured text <//ralsina.me/stories/BBS52.html>`_

  Another not-so-old post, I do this a lot :-)

* `Custom widgets using PyQt <//ralsina.me/stories/27.html>`_

  This is almost 6 years old, for a deprecated version of PyQt, and is completely broken for current versions. Stop reading this.


Lessons:

1) I need to write more about Qt and/or start flamewars with clueless IT writers

2) I need to search for ancient material and deprecate it

3) Having your own hosting and blogging software is neat

4) 10 years is a lot of time: 860 posts (or 913, depending on how you count)