{"id":76,"date":"2005-06-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2005-06-25T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-25T14:00:00","slug":"and-so-it-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2005\/06\/25\/and-so-it-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"AND SO IT CONTINUES&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was one year ago today that the bayon blog was born, with a post about simple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayontechnologies.com\/bt\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/and_so_it_begin.php\">beginnings<\/a>.  It apologized in advance for misspellings, hasty or inaccurate assumptions which I think was well placed; my high school English teacher would cringe if he were to read my posts.  The community has been quite accepting of my inattention to these details, and I thank them for allowing me to be a little sloppy in this area.<\/p>\n<p>In the past year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The bayon blog has been picked up by some aggregators (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orablogs.com\/\">OraBlogs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblogs.com\/\">BI Blogs<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>There have been 72 entries in 365 days which means I post something use(less\/ful) every 5 days.<\/li>\n<li>Mostly I post about Oracle.  Here is the breakdown of entries by category (Oracle = 40, Open Source = 12, Tech Industry = 10, Professional = 10, General BI = 6, Grid\/Distributed = 2).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/entry_images\/bayon_posts_1year.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Notice the sum surpasses the total because of posts being categorized to multiple categories; an issue familiar to dimensional modelers and quite challenging to boot.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Traffic is steadily increasing&#8230; 10k page views per month is starting to breach respectable traffic!  Which is thanks to&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Google as my biggest referrer.  Nearly half of all my traffic is referred from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">Google<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rittman.net\">rittman.net<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblogs.com\/\">biblogs<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orablogs.com\/\">orablogs<\/a> contribute significantly to bayon blog traffic as well!<\/li>\n<li>People are Googling for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=open+source+ETL&#038;sourceid=mozilla-search&#038;start=0&#038;start=0&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official\">OPEN SOURCE (ETL\/OLAP)<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve written only a bit about these subjects, but it is by far the biggest driver to bayon blog<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve met bloggers\/colleagues\/customers and been able to connect with people of similar interest.  This has been quite exciting.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m still quite lazy and have not enabled site comments.  Perhaps I&#8217;ll make this a birthday present to bayon blog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for tuning in and I do hope readers find the content useful.  <a href=\"mailto:ngoodman@bayontechnologies.com\">Email me<\/a> requests and feedback on the site content, usability, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was one year ago today that the bayon blog was born, with a post about simple beginnings. It apologized in advance for misspellings, hasty or inaccurate assumptions which I think was well placed; my high school English teacher would cringe if he were to read my posts. The community has been quite accepting of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}