Keyvan Nayyeri

Today, 28th June 2008, is the third birthday anniversary of my site and blog, Nayyeri.NET! It’s hard to believe that three years are passed since the day that I first installed an early Beta version of the Community Server 1.1 on this site and got in many of troubles. I can remember that I went to my hoster’s office and we cooperated to tackle many issues down!

From that day to know I’ve been actively blogging on this site with no stop point and without going lower than 20 posts per months ratio! Those who have been writing a technical blog with same material can understand that it’s not easy to achieve this in a long time!

I don’t think there are many blogs on the community with the same age with the same activity level so this is a good point to give me more energy to keep this progress up!

There are three main points about the last year of my blogging on this site. The first point is that I’ve passed whole this year when I was serving in the armies as a part of my mandatory military service! This means that I had many difficulties to manage my time and energy to spend them on my own life. Fortunately I made it and I could keep this blog up and even make it much more better and popular.

The second point about this blog was the fact that I so my blog became much more known on the .NET community (because of my open source activities, articles and my book) and due to the age of this blog, its content and more than all of these, the favor of others to me, this blog has become a very well-known blog on the .NET community. I’m proud to see that it’s been a good reference for many .NET developers around the world and now I can consider my blog along famous .NET blogs that have a good respect from the community members!

And the third point is my big switch in the software of the blog from the Community Server to the Graffiti CMS. I used various versions of Community Server for over two years but finally switched to another Telligent product that was more appropriate for the purpose of a single user blog.

It’s my tradition to review a year for my blog on its birthday anniversary. I go back and list all the posts related to updates on the site in a single post. At least it’s interesting for myself to go back and take a look at all of the posts that I have written in a year to grab some specific titles.

• Switched to FeedBurner for a few days (July 5, 2007): After a few days I returned back to my own feed.
• Upgraded to Community Server 2007.1 (September 18, 2007): This was the last build of the great Community Server platform that I used on this site.
• Switched to Graffiti 1.0 Beta 1 (December 7, 2007): After a long time I switched to a new software for this site/blog. I passed my own migration route with my own migration tool.
• Updated blog theme to Underground (December 10, 2007): I’m still using this open, simple and beautiful theme.
• Added a mobile theme for Windows Mobile visitors (December 30, 2007) Visitors coming from Internet Explorer for Windows Mobile should see a different optimized them for their devices.
• Upgraded to Graffiti 1.0 Beta 2 (January 23, 2008)
• Moved my domain to a new registrar (January 31, 2008): I think this was a clever change regardless of its long down time for the blog. For some political reasons I felt dangerous for the future of my domain and moved it to a 1&1.
• Upgraded to Graffiti 1.0 (February 22, 2008)
• Finally switched to FeedBurner (March 2, 2008): After 3-4 temporary attempts to switch to FeedBurner in the past, I finally moved my blog feed to FeedBurner.
• Upgraded to Graffiti 1.0 Service Pack 1 (March 11, 2008)
• Upgraded to Graffiti 1.1 (June 20, 2008)

Finishing the third year, I passed an important stage in the lifecycle of this site. Now it’s much more known to the community and visitors and receives much more traffic and praise from the community.

For the next year I will hopefully finish my military service in four months and can have more time to provide more and better content.

To be honest, recently my passion for blogging was challenged seriously and it was close for me to stop it but I think that the situation is now passed away!

In a short while you will see a new appearance of me on the web by launching my new project, Waegis. I have some plans to order a dedicated design for the Nayyeri.NET and change its look and feel and maybe apply more major changes to it. First I need to get my heads off of the Waegis project.

My other plan that has been around for almost a year is starting my own webcast channel. As it requires more spare time from me, I haven’t been able to make it happen yet and don’t think that it is possible before the end of the military service but after that I may start webcasting as well!