This is likely my last blog post for the year, but hardly the last bit of work I need to accomplish. But before I scurry off to finish the work before me, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on 2008. Both we as a company and a community have accomplished a lot this year. We introduced a number of new books, released WebGUI 7.5, saw hundreds of new faces spring up in the community (including several new WebGUI-related businesses), had a successful conference, met with thousands of new potential users through all our trade shows and speaking engagements, and completed major development on WebGUI 7.6.

Though the economy looks bleak I'm and both hopeful and optimistic for 2009 to be our best year ever. To kick off the year we'll have WebGUI 7.6 coming out with a few surprises I can't wait to share with you. Also at the start we'll be introducing Plain Black's new hosting automation system to the world. We have many important updates to our books planned and in development. We'll see the introduction of WRE 1.0. We'll be presenting at a lot of trade shows and conferences again to get the word out about WebGUI. And finally we'll see WebGUI 7.7. And all of that will be happening in the first half of the year! Then we'll finish out the year strong with our best WUC ever, and start development on WebGUI 8.0.

The future of WebGUI has never looked brighter. I can't wait to share it with all of you.

In whatever type of end of year holidays that you partake, I wish you well, and hope to see you healthy, happy, and invigorated in the new year.

PS.

Just a reminder that Plain Black is closed from December 24th through January 4th. A skeleton crew will be on call to handle emergencies, but all other inquiries will wait until January 5th.