Today's a special day for codestore, it being its third birthday. Three whole years! Who'd have thought it? Me? Probably not. I certainly had no idea that what started out as a whimsical idea would all but take over my life.

It's actually more like three and a half years. Just like the Queen, codestore.net has two birthdays - a real one and an official one. Today's the official birthday. Marking the day that the site stopped being experimental and turned in to something a bit more useful. A few days later I wrote the first article and mail slowly started to arrive. One year later and it was still going. Another year after that and it's still going and with a new publishing medium. Yet another year gone and we're still here. Where's that you might well wonder? Well, I'm not sure. There's no hiding the fact that the site has changed over the years. Whether or not it's for the better is irrelevant today. It's still here and that all that really matters.

Over the last 365 days I've blogged 201 times and you guys have responded 2093 times. What's not quite so positive is the fact that I've only written five articles. Plans are to rectify this when I get the chance. Whether I will manage to, remains to be seen. However, the articles that are already there are still relevant and have had 548 responses in the last year, showing that they remain a resource for Domino developers out there.

Looking to the future is hard. I'm not going about to make any big promises. The only promise I will make is that I will still be here in a year's time and hopefully three. That is, if you guys promise you will be too. Now for some party fun. Who can claim to be, or prove to be, the all time longest reader? I can use the comments to articles or my mail file for reference if need be...