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On this day last year dotTech was started. Well, technically speaking it was PoliticallyMotivated at that time but who is keeping tabs, right? Over the past year, from the first post to this most recent one, dotTech has blossomed from an unknown entity to one of the most respected, referenced, and authoritative technology blogs on the Internet.
The dotTech community has grown from Ashraf talking to himself to a dedicated readership of over 2,000 subscribed readers who visit on a daily basis. Even better, this community is not a segregated group from one part of the world. From the Old World to the New World, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Atheists, Deists, Buddhists, Hindus, black, white, brown, yellow, pink, red, male, female, young, old, and everything in between alike are on dotTech; indeed dotTechies are a diverse bunch who come from all nooks and corners of the world. Yet, still there is strong adhesive keeping us altogether regardless of our vast personal differences; and to that I salute – well done friends.
Whether you have contributed to dotTech’s professional growth by publishing unique and informative articles, providing your technical advice and topic suggestions freely, pulling out your checkbooks, providing artistic expertise, or just simply being here on a regular basis, I thank all you: thank you.
As the new dotTech year starts, let dotTech grow, prosper, and continue to champion technological advice without ever losing sight of its core, ethical values.
P.S. The new dotTech look was purposely put up to celebrate today (thank you Devraj for the really nice logo and favicon). I know many of you have posted your comments, suggestions, and criticisms about the new look in the comments of other articles already. However to make it more organized, so I can respond and evaluate comments without missing some, please post all comments, suggestions, and criticisms here.
Hi Ashraf,
Let me congratulate you on astonishing and marvelous one year of dotTech.org. There is no doubt, you are the one among them who are really TECHIE. I hope you will do much more better than before in future.
I could know dotTech a few days ago but now I know dotTech.
Regards,
Tech Geek
COMPUTELOGY
Greetings all! Ashraf, re-reading your post about how wonderfully, magnificently varied we, your loyal followers, are that it says less about us than it does about you. You are the one who brings us all together – from all walks of life; from every corner of the globe; of all fantastically beautiful colours, faiths, languages, cultures, orientations …
You are building something special, Ashraf. My prediction is that this will take you places you never expected it would go. So continue to let it grow and evolve … and continue to create in this space the world we all hope we will see around us when we open our doors each morning.
Power on, brother. Our respect is never-ending.
Congratulations to dotTech’s first.
Mabuhay ka Ashraf!
As always Ashraf: THANKS!
;) jevvv from EnZed
Salam Ashraf,
Congratulations and thank you so very sincerely for sharing the knowledge and wisdom that you have gained within your chosen field of endeavours in such a way that we may also learn what we need to know to be able to be successfull in our own ways.
Dear Ashraf and Dottech Community
CONGRATULATIONS &HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
Thanks for your unselfish service.
by a feverish fan of dot-tech
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Great site! It’s usually the first emails I look for now that I found you. Thanks for sharing.
i already commented before but it worth commenting on the respected and supportive efforts/information provided by Ashraf
Mashaa ALLAH
Well done, Ashraf! And — though I haven’t a clue who “Devraj” might be — incredibly well done, Devraj, too: the logo is gorgeous, a fabulous graphic in every respect and with a rare sense of humour, too.
As for ‘technologians’: gosh, wow. . . Who thought that one up? Ver-rr-y impressive.
The new theme is quite perfick — from my point of view: I have a large widescreen monitor so screen estate is ample, and the text size isn’t a problem. Whether or not an upsizing of the point size for comments / messages is worth experimenting with, I don’t know.
Re PayPal donations. PayPal account holders may, like myself (though actually, they’re all a darn sight brighter than I am. . . so I don’t know why I’m pointing this out. . . but anyway!) have experienced some difficulty in the past in actually making a donation. I did. I resolved to try again but as with all good intentions, yeah, well. . .
Anyway, as it’s the first birthday, and I’m surely not alone in hoping there’ll be many more, I’ve tried again with PayPal — last time around, I seemed to get into an endless loop about ‘entering more than 0′ even though the sum was, er, slightly higher than that. Turns out I hadn’t clicked the ‘update total’ button after entering in the figure, a necessary action when logging into the account to make the donation. Hopefully, others here have a brain that functions better than mine.
So, then. Congratulations to all concerned on the new-look ‘blog’ — far more than a blog, really: it’s a comprehensive resource — and sincere thanks to Ashraf for the time, the skill, the patience and the hard work he continues to pump into this little enterprise of his (‘little’ today, but who knows, tomorrow?)
I can’t possibly say anything more or anything better than the eloquent comment made by Mr Wizard at 22. . . so won’t even try.
All best, dotTech, and all very best, too, to everyone on here, and their families, for another happy and successful year to come.
:-) :-) :-)
Great job ashraf!
I’ve been here since the the start, and i remember when there were 76 email people with email notifications.
Great job with the website,
Thewebmaster of GOTD and Dottech
Love the new logo/favicon, and congrats on 1 year of awesomeness! :P Here’s to hoping the site will stick around for much, much longer.
Wow, I went back to GAOTD site and went backwards to see when I started following your wisdom and humor ;-) LOL Seems I started following you last December and when I first visited I was looking for your political take on things. I figured your humor would lend itself to putting a smile on my face. So like many, I watched for your comments at GAOTD and often times you saved me from looking at other comments as you were usually spot on with your recommendations. So happy birthday; I will be the dissenting voice by stating that I liked the black and white that was part of your last site. Although it is growing on me I suppose. I also have searched for your wisdom regarding website design, but alas I still wait. You are a kick and I thank you for that.
thanks for all the hard work. your site is the first site that i visit when i arrive at work and again at home. almost all my apps in my notebook are based on your suggestions and comments from your posters. more power and like someone said, mabuhay ka. :) love the new look by the way.
Congrats Asharf,
Sorry I was late to the party, but keep up the great work you have a wonderful following.
Love the new look. Everyone pitch in and send Asharf something for his DotTech Birthday!
Vidimo Se!
@Ashraf: just want to let you know that the site doesn’t work or look right in IE8 unless I have it set to use compatability mode
@Everyone: I may not respond to each and every comment but I am reading it all. A big thanks to everyone for their kind comments and great support!
@Samuel: It works just fine for me in IE8 with or without compatibility mode. Can you send me a screenshot of what is going wrong for you?