Happy Birthday to us!

The Venture Skills blog made it’s first post one year today, the post stamps are incorrect by the way I was fiddling with them when testing the posts but this is the opening lines…

This Blog has been set up to record how we have gone about starting up the company, the technology and products we use and the success and failures we have gone through.
http://ventureskills.wordpress.com/2006/10/03/hello-world/

It took about a week for that statement to go out of the window.

The past year has seen a massive change on the emphasis of this blog from a journey by a startup company to a primary teaching and educational blog in the early days we planned on using the blog to sell our services this lasted for a little while but today other then the occasional plug this is a hard sell free area.

The other changes have been more subtle the writing I think has become more refined at least I hope so and no longer blogging for bloging sake where once we would have been proud of having 7 posts a week now the standard is 1 a fortnight but I think that the 1 post is more useful well researched and generally of a decent standard.

So what has been the proudest moments?
Well we have had a couple of extremely popular posts including,

• Want to create a site like Digg? - A look at using Drupal as a Digg clone
• Top 5 CSS Layouts - Hugely popular look at some excellent layout resources
• CCK & Views combination - Another Drupal based post which went down well with Drupalers

But for me our proudest posts have been our experimentation and research posts and in particular the recent Stumbleupon mathematics post which has sparked of numerous conversations around the web and if you have been talking and we haven’t got to you to say thanks yet thankyou!

Breaking the news
We haven’t rely done much of this but we had some great fun at Hackday earlier in the year and in particular were one of the first people outside of Yahoo to play with the Mybloglog API, We also have covered some major and minor Google events such as the U turn on Cloaking.

New friends and faces
On a personal note I have made many new contacts through the blog and can count on many people as personal friends even those I have never met in person. I would be here all week if I started to list you all but thank you without your comments, stumble thumbs ups and general encouragement this blog would have died ages ago a huge thanks to those who during some health problems took the time to write to find out if I was ok and to offer help. You guys are great and thankyou for reading this small blog. Join us for the next year as we move ever onwards.

Tim Nash
on behalf of the Venture Skills Team

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