Well, it’s been another year of blogging. 2011 was a pretty busy year for me, and I got a few fun projects done. Minimus, my free Mac application for easily compressing CSS and JavaScript, is one such thing.
Anyway, now’s the time when I usually do my annual rundown of statistics and the best (or most newsworthy) posts from each month of the year.
- Monthly Page Views: 39,286
- Monthly Unique Visitors: 29,568
- RSS Subscribers: 662 (average over 30 days)
- Toolbar PageRank: 5
- Approved Comments: 3,554
- Akismet Spam Comments Blocked (to date): 533,824
- Legit Comments to Spam Ratio: ~1:150
- Total Tweets: 8,609
(Monthly statistics as of December 31, 2011.)
January
- Mac App Store Launches…Along With Tweetie 2 for Mac
- What Everyone Missed About the Gawker Password Scandal
- The iPhone Comes to Verizon — For Real This Time
- AOL Hijacks WoW.com Domain From WoW Insider
February
- Metered Internet Comes to Canada
- TestFlight: iOS Beta Testing on the Fly
- Sparrow: The New Mail for Mac
March
- Cult of Mac Caught in Google Content Farm Crossfire
- Variable-length Argument Lists in PHP with func_get_args()
- Evil JavaScript Trick: The History Nuker
April
May
- Rackspace is Shutting Down Slicehost
- Tumblr-style Links with WordPress Post Formats
- Angry Birds Comes to the Web, in HTML5
- What if PHP were Completely Rewritten to be More Elegant?
- So I Finally Figured Out Why Everyone Likes Git Repositories so Much…
June
- Lions and iClouds and iOS 5: WWDC 2011 Roundup
- WPTavern is Back: New Owner, Same Great Flavor
- How to Defeat Cyrillic Spam in WordPress
- Get Twitter and Facebook Link Statistics with JSON and jQuery
- Don’t Assume a User’s Browser Window Size
July
- Where to Find Free Fonts for CSS @font-face
- Easy CSS Sprites with Sprite Cow
- Adding and Tracking Social Buttons
- Minimus: The OS X JavaScript and CSS Minifier
August
- Getting Your Feet Wet with PDO and Migrating Old MySQL Code
- 5 Sites to Find Free PSD Resources for Your Web Designs
- Disable Domain Highlighting in Firefox
- Google Launches Page Speed Service
- If PHP Were British
- WordPress Admins Can Post JavaScript in Post Comments
September
- Bootstrap: Twitter’s CSS Framework
- Prefixr: Cross-Browser CSS in Seconds
- How to Add A Floating Social Media Widget Box to Your Blog
- How to Import a Very Large SQL Dump with phpMyAdmin
- How to Bring Back “http://” in Firefox 7
October
- The W3C Has Released the First Working Draft of CSS4
- Building an iPhone App to Parse the Twitter API with NSXMLParser
November
- Create Color Palettes With ColorSchemer Touch
- Using Google-Hosted jQuery With a Local Fallback
- Awesome Firebug Tricks You May Have Missed
December
- Domain Hijackers Hit Design and Development Blogs
- Twitter Launches “New New Twitter” and Ruins iOS App
- Universal Censors Podcast on YouTube for Mentioning Megaupload Music Video Takedown
- Easily Embed Whole Tweets in Your Blog Posts With Tweetable 1.2.4
- Despite Boycott, GoDaddy Still Supports SOPA
I hope you will all continue reading through 2012. Happy new year!
