www.nickhodge.com

As a part of the trans­ition of my blog entries from the old PHP-based Mun­gen­eten­gine to PHP-based Word­Press I’ve needed to cat­egor­ize and title my older posts.

It has been inter­est­ing not­ing cer­tain milestones:

• Total blog posts: 371
  Which totals 5.6 posts per month, on aver­age over the last 5.5 years.
• Star­ted Web­log­ging: Janu­ary 2000
  5.5 years of blog­ging, more if you go right back! to 14^th July 1997. That’s over 9 years per­sonal pres­ence on the web. Also, as a point of ref­er­ence, www.nickhodge.com is still not as large at the Fairfax@Atlanta site dynam­ic­ally assembled through 5 intense weeks in the inter­net dark-ages of 1996. The web is 15 years old today, so I’ve been pub­lish­ing for 66% of the “life” of the www.
• Imple­men­ted under self-coded PHP with MySQL backend: Decem­ber 2001
  The decision to put data in a data­base has rewar­ded this site many times, although not in ways ori­gin­ally inten­tioned. A code review shows some lines and func­tions being 5 years old. Oh the hor­ror of some of the PHP.
• Imple­men­ted SOAP for Neil Finn Lyric Server: June 2002
  As web ser­vices star­ted to emerge, I’d decided to see how dif­fi­cult they were to imple­ment. With vari­ous cli­ents on dif­fer­ent lan­guages and plat­forms, and strug­gling with WSDL — this ser­vice is still work­ing today. At as last night, the server had pro­cessed over 100,000 requests.
• Imple­men­ted RSS Feed: July 2002
  Before feed-readers were parts of browsers and oper­at­ing sys­tems, and before I really knew why I was doing this — coded a RSS feed for this site.
• First Mob­log Entry: July 2002
  Imple­men­ted a quick gate­way for SMS-to-Blog entry sys­tem, and tapped out an entry from a remote device.
• First Wiki­pe­dia Ref­er­ence: Octo­ber 2003With the recent world aware­ness of Wiki­pe­dia, my first post­ing and ref­er­ence is way-back. Accord­ing to Wiki­pe­dia, the num­ber of entries was less than 200,000.