2010 in review

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:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,800 times in 2010. That’s about 7 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 11 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 24 posts. There were 41 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 11mb. That’s about 3 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was January 9th with 64 views. The most popular post that day was 6_SrrTrains-Deutsch.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were modellbahn-portal.de, bahnforum.info, blendpolis.de, sourceforge.net, and modellbahnportal.de.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for “virtual model railroad”, virtuelle modelleisenbahn, virtual modellbahn, virtual model railroad, and trainz edit.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

6_SrrTrains-Deutsch March 2009
4 comments

2

1_Download Area March 2009
9 comments

3

5_SrrTrains March 2009
1 comment

4

2_Gallery/Marketplace March 2010
1 comment

5

SrrTrains – Cabs and Controls November 2009
22 comments

A Small Thankyou to Bitmanagement

I told you about the 1st LAN Party and I have told you about the SrrTrains project for more than a year now.

All this wouldn’t be possible without the open standard X3D (Web3D Consortium) and the smart products that have been constructed around this standard.

For me, one of the most important suppliers is Bitmanagement (www.bitmanagement.de), where I used
- the BS Contact X3D Player to debug and display my content
- the BS SDK to develop the Visual Basic Application “SRR Test Frame”, which was very useful at the first LAN Party.

You may ask now: “When you are as happy as Larry with the products of Bitmanagement, why then do you start a project ‘Browser Independent Multiplayer Framework for Simulated Railroad’ on the sourceforge?”
(Remark (2010-06-12): the sourceforge project is available at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/simulrr)

Well, I like the products of Bitmanagement because I made the experience that they are well-engineered and stable (though they are not for free), and I will use them to debug and test my software in the future, but I don’t like to prejudice my users, which browser they should use.

My users should have the possibility to choose, as I had.

New Open Source Project Simulated Railroad Framework

I have just started and open source project at simulrr.sourceforge.net to get the SRR Framework developed faster and with a higher quality.

That means:

- I grant the copyrights of my software to that OS project, under the condition, that an LGPL will be offered
- activities on the present blog will be reduced to a minimum
- Step 0033 of SrrTrains will be based on the OSS framework
- development of the SRR Tools is NOT discontinued

Remarks?

Kind regards
Christoph

P.S.: Remark (2010-06-12): the WIKI of the sourceforge project is available at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/simulrr.

Next Steps of SrrTrains

As already announced at http://simulrr.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/1st-lan-party/,

the next step of SrrTrains (step 0033) will be a rather big step. An open source project will be prepared and started (possibly in autumn).

As a preparation, i started step 0033 and called it “Project X” -> see Project X. A complete redesign of the SRR Framework will be performed and if you would like to help us -> feel free to contact us (About).

Remark (2010-06-12): the sourceforge project is already available at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/simulrr.

Have a nice day
Christoph