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.