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2009: A year in review by Mar Matthias Darin For me, 2009 has been a fairly good year. My new software is up and working exceptionally well for my prayer ministry, my personal blog (this blog) has done better then I would have every imagined, and my experimental weather blog has given my the information I needed to refine my relationship algorithm. As I mentioned here, my prayer ministry blog was taking upto forty minutes to re-generate. Now it only take eleven minutes to re-generate. My algorithm has made a huge impact on the time it took to process twelve to fifteen thousand prayers. My research in keyword metrics has been proven beyond my wildest hopes. I can now get a page indexed in less then an hour in Google. That is a major accomplishment as when I started my keyword algorithm, it took me three months to get a page indexed. I am quite happy at the progress I've made this year. Especially considering that I knew absolutely nothing about blogging a year and a half ago. The Weather Watch blog started out as an experiment for my relationship analysis and turned out to be a technical challenge on multiple levels. The information I use is provided by the National Weather Service via their FTP server only, no RSS, no XML, nothing to make retrieving the discussions easy. I ended up keeping two folders whereby I download the entire FTP discussion area and compare it to the second area I keep. The time stamps on these files are so messed up and out of whack that the only way to determine which discussions were updated was a file by file comparison. The second hurdle was making a cross reference between the reporting station and the Doppler station for retrieving the Doppler image at that time. Once the right Doppler station was identified, I had to then download ten images to merge them in proper order to create the finished image for the blog. That was a real pain. The end result turned out to be quite interesting. Of course, most advertisers don't see the merits of this blog... That's fine and I really don't care what they might think as I didn't build the Weather Watcher for them. I built it for me. The fact that I even found an advertiser and visitors interested in it is a blessing. I really didn't think it would do well and had already planned on deleting it once my research was complete. So I feel blessed by its success. All of this was built in my blogging software that I have spent the last year and a half writing. It has come a long way since I started it and is now the backbone to all of my blogs. I still have a lot to do with it of course and it has been quite tedious to write. My biggest challenge has been to remember the goals I wanted when I started writing the software. My goals have been the guiding line to getting the software to work the way I wanted it. My goals were and are:
I've done well in keeping my goals and the software shows that. I have received many compliments and comments of the look and operations of each of my blogs. So overall, I am happy with what I've accomplished and am looking forward to the next year and continued development and more blogging. Most importantly, it has been a good year because of all the people I've had the opportunity to meet and the many good blogs I've been blessed by in reading. 
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