January | 2011 | Craig Smith

I got along to the “Googleplex” when I was in Sydney the other week, and with Steve Dalton checked out the inaugural Go Meetup. I have spent very little time looking at Go, so was interested to get some background into what it is all about.

Andrew Gerrand gave (part) of a talk on Practical Go Programming (I say part because it turned out to be a discussion with the slides rather than the talk). The slides are available here, but the talk is available as a recording from OSDC 2010.

Steve Dalton also interviewed Andrew Gerrand on the Coding By Numbers podcast earlier in the day, which is well worth a listen.

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 5,200 times in 2010. That’s about 13 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 37 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 71 posts. There were 4 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 406kb.

The busiest day of the year was September 2nd with 114 views. The most popular post that day was Agile 2010 Day 2 Review.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were twitter.com, infoq.com, ow.ly, unimplemented.blogspot.com, and linkedin.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for aaftt, alec sharp, apple application development training, ubuntu set java_home, and aa-ftt.