This past year has certainly been a great one for myself personally as well as for our company. Looking back, this year there have been many accomplishments done, jobs completed, lessons learned, and friends made. Here are a few highlights that have happened over the year:

• In regards to AlloraWeb:
  • Our company’s performance has grew immensely! This entire year has been full of projects up until the last days of the year. As with most companies, there have been some peaks and valley’s particularly in the Spring (April, May) where we had very few projects and peak number of clients in the Summer months (June, July). We’ll see how this upcoming year will perform for us.
  • While before we would focus mostly on business and corporate work, this last quarter it has been an interesting experience getting into the arcade network. One client I will highlight is Mark Broad, the owner of ArcadePreHacks.com. This project has been both challenging for us, yet has been a great learning experience for myself as well as our coders. It was our pleasure to give this site a completely new design as well as do loads of backend work to make the website perform well for it’s 40,000+ members.
  • In addition, I have met some very talented and dedicated freelancers who helped us develop some of our projects. It is not always that you find a freelancer that not only has the skill, but also the talent to do the job. In particular these last several months of the year, I’ve enjoyed working with Akram, a very talented graphic designer and coder. I’ll be able to showcase his work with the release of an upcoming website we are developing. No further announcements until the site is released, but I can’t wait to make the announcement.
• On March 18, I wrote Askllora.com’s famous “Hello World” post and over the course of 9 months I’ve published 70 posts which I consider quite an accompishment taking into account all the clients and projects I deal with as well as time required for educational needs. This upcoming 2009 I hope to get a higher post count, however my goal will be to write quality posts and not ramble about miscellaneous things simply for the sake of more posts.
• In my personal life, I’ve greatly enjoyed my time with family and friends and have gone on numerous vacations to see my close ones. Other travels have taken me outside the country to Canada which I completely adore due to how beautiful it is. I don’t, for even one second deny that here in the US we have some extremely gorgeous places, but simply driving in Canada was a blast – aside from their low speed limits.
• This year also marked my third year of college, hence I am now a junior and also enjoy that. College has been a blast as well meeting new people and learning new things. This also means I have less than two years left of spending money on *cough* college related activities.

This year has been full of fun, excitement, and a whole lot of action. Although it is impossible to describe this past year in its full glory I’m sure everyone has something they can relate to and discuss. The several things I listed above were just a few brief things that came to mind and  decided to share. Not everything however can be shared online :d, but nonetheless I share my moments of happiness with those who I love and have fun. I hope you do too.

Happy New Year!

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I would like to personally wish every visitor, reader, subscriber, webmaster, and every person that visits this blog a very merry and blessed Christmas. Christmas is that time of the year when we are not just greatful for the things we receive, but that time of the year in which we are thankful for all the goodness that has come to us and for Jesus Christ who was born to help and save us.

I’m not someone who tries to force my beliefs on others, but I can say that looking back on this past year, only with help from above has it been possible for the things to happen this year tha have happened.

Whether you celebrate Christmas on December 25th, January 7th, or don’t celebrate it at all, I would like everyone to look back at their year of life that will never be relived and think about all the blessings that you’ve had this year and thank God for them all.

Merry Christmas!

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