1000

On 1st January 2003 I converted my static mindmap homepage into a blog and published my first entry titled Predictions for 2003. I came a long way since then. This posts marks my 1000th entry here. Some entries, predating Twitter, are close to Twitter's 140 characters limit, so I could add my 4723 tweets to the list . The 1000 entries have attracted 1577 comments, with the first comment going to Singapore resident Ramasamy. The crown for most comments goes to Nathan Freeman of Lotus 911 fame with 31 comments. The post that attracted the most comments was Web Agents XPages style with 25 unique comments.
It also is one of the most popular posts together with Building a high performance Domino Server, Notes / Domino upgrade cheat sheet and Communicating with IBMers and Lotus professionals using Sametime.
I'm grateful for the ideas provided by all the sessions with customers, partners, colleagues, friends and brothers-in-arms. Without being challenged with (sometimes not so) new questions every day this blog would not have been possible. Today I can use it in many sessions as reference. During an upgrade I carelessly lost a few blog entries. Luckily the Internet never forgets and I was able to recover them. What is behind this blog:

• The blog runs on Lotus Domino on a Ubuntu server using the Blogsphere Template V3 created by the awesome Declan Lynch
• The skin is a modification of Dan Archibald "Orange Keys" design (can't remember where I got it from)
• Search is provided by a custom Google search
• Initially I used Julian's code hosted by Joe Litton to highlight LotusScript. Later I switched to Quick Highlighter since it supports all the languages I usually use including XML and XSLT
• Screen shots are created with Shutter including the boxes, arrows, blurred text, numbers and occasional 3d rotation
• Besides the Notes client I use Scribe Fire to create blog posts. This is very convenient when researching topics in the web
• Some of the graphics were created using InkScape and DIA, but since I'm not much of an artist, I settled for SmartDraw that provided to be invaluable for the type of illustrations I want to create
• The MindMaps are drawn using Tony Buzan's iMindMap mainly for the beautiful branches it allows to draw
• The screen mockups are build with the awesom Balsamiq Mockups by our Italian friend Peldi
• Graphic fine tuning (croping, resizing, filters) is done using GIMP
• I started using Prezi for some more dynamic presentations / posts

Thank you for your readership!