Monthly Roundup - December 2008

Posted January 1st, 2009 in Monthly Roundup

My monthly round up posts a summary of the most read posts over the previous month, numbers of visitors to the blog and any changes I have made over the month that may have affected visitor numbers etc. This is the monthly roundup for December 2008.

25 most popular articles in December 2008

The following were the top 25 most accessed articles on this blog in December, along with the original post date. The list is compiled from Google Analytics, looking at the "Top Content" report and sorting by unique pageviews. Last month's rank is shown in square brackets after the post title, or [-] if it wasn't in the top 25 last month.

1. Delete All Data in a MySQL Table [2] (July 16th 2004)
2. Howto Restart Apache [1] (December 22nd 2004)
3. Open firewall ports for MSN Messenger and ICQ [3] (February 13th 2004)
4. Cross Table Update with MySQL [4] (March 1st 2004)
5. How to check an MD5 hash on a file [6] (January 19th 2004)
6. Method chaining with PHP [-] (December 7th 2008)
7. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection [7] (June 21st 2008)
8. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login - Resolved [10] (June 26th 2008)
9. Install yum with rpm on CentOS [5] (October 16th 2007)
10. Windows Vista Black Screen After Login [11] (May 29th 2008)
11. Formatting Dates and Times with MySQL [9] (July 17th 2004)
12. Using the HTTP_REFERER variable with PHP [13] (April 18th 2008)
13. How to get and set form element values with jQuery [19] (November 13th 2008)
14. Create RSA and DSA Keys for SSH [12] (March 5th 2004)
15. Errors Using mysqlimport to Import Data Into MySQL [14] (March 21st 2004)
16. Access denied when logging into VMWare Infrastructure Web Access on Windows [8] (May 8th 2008)
17. VMWare Server Console Connection Refused [15] (February 10th 2008)
18. PHP Error Class 'SoapClient' not found [16] (September 25th 2007)
19. Howto log into an SSH Server Using PuTTY [23] (March 23rd 2004)
20. Cross Table Delete with MySQL [17] (March 1st 2004)
21. Installing mod_ssl on Apache on CentOS 5 [18] (September 20th 2007)
22. Reinstall TCP/IP on Windows XP [-] (August 8th 2007)
23. Test if a file exists with the BASH shell [22] (August 27th 2008)
24. Sendmail remote connection refused [20] (November 30th 2003)
25. Installing fonts in Open Office [21] (November 30th 2003)

Visitor numbers

I get the visitor numbers from Google Analytics and the numbers are pretty similar to last month, given the slow down that happens between Christmas and New Year (normally I get around a 5 to 10% gain in visitor numbers month on month). The following table shows visitor numbers and pageviews for each month from September to December 2008.

RSS Subscribers

I use Feedburner/Google to serve my RSS feed and give an indication of visitor numbers. I curently have around 95 RSS subscribers, 10 more than in the last two to three months.

Changes made this month

I didn't change anything on this blog this month.

Things to do

The ability for people to comment. This should happen this month as the new framework I have been working on is almost complete and I'll most likely be moving this blog onto it and add in commenting at that time. OK, I said the same thing last month...