Despite what the title might indicate, hopefully this post isn’t a product of having my head up my ass. Rather it is the obligatory year in review and prognostication of the year ahead post. Hmmmn maybe I do I have my head up my ass.
2007 was a strange year for me:
- left one startup, now consultant/insultant to another startup
- moved houses twice — wouldn’t recommend a move before Christmas, particularly if you have kids. New construction is a cruel mistress.
- formally left XBRL standard development — deeply miss it and the people
- started blogging again after a year break — meh
- twitter, twitter and more twitter
- switched back to OS X
- left .NET development just as C# was getting really interesting
- starting playing with Ruby and Rails
- attended my first bar, demo and startup camps
- blew through a ton of whiteboard markers
- slowly became a freetard
- met some good people
- got in-touch with my inner Crankenstein
So my simple plans for 2008:
- unpack — so many books, so many boxes.
- strike a better balance between whiteboard and code (i.e. write more code) — mildly-obsessive about RSS as the transportable web right now.
- hang with the fam
- rekindle love for design — being back on a Mac helps as did building a new house. Not getting a black turtleneck (yet).
- help out with Jeff & Declan’s Agile efforts more not that carrying around a mic at the Ambler event wasn’t fun
- be skillful and delicious (vs willful and malicious) — my kids watched Santa Clause 3 way too many times but that line always made us laugh.
- sail smaller boats!
There it’s done.
