Remarkably I accomplished nearly everything on my list of goals for 2008 in some form. Rather than subjecting you to a boring recap of my personal minutia here’s what I hope to achieve this year.
Technology to learn
- Learn Erlang. I’ve started a little early and its just fun. Mind. Bending. Such a different way of designing software.
- Possibly learn Objective-C. Begrudgingly. Objective-C has to be one of the least portable languages out there but in the interest of PhoneGap I feel I should understand this technology better.
- Use CouchDB. Interestingly, at this time last year, I was looking at ThruDB. Document centric databases: oh yes.
Conferences to attend
- One of: Mountain West RubyConf, RubyConf or RubyFringe
- IxDA 09
- JavaOne. We’re hoping to talk about Merb/Rails on JRuby and, of course, PhoneGap hacking.
- GeoWeb 2009. Hoping to have the opportunity to talk about PhoneGap and geo location.
Places to visit
- Europe. I’ve never been. I’m 30. Time to go.
- Burningman. I’ve been too many times to be healthy but chances are I will return to that desert again.
Odds and ends
- Learn to sail.
- Learn to shoot the center of a dime out from 30 feet with my buddy Al.
- Continue my study of philosophy.