Resolutions of 2009
In 2008, I posted about 40 articles; I got my feet wet with EC2, Ruby, Rails, Git, Objective-C, and Cocoa; and I committed myself to moving my career away from Java. I haven’t done more than dabble with EC2, Objective-C, and Cocoa, though. However, I have started to use Ruby and Rails extensively. Also in 2008, I joined the team at Flex Authority Magazine as a technical editor.
In 2009, I resolve to:
- Finish reading Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
- Learn Erlang and develop at least one non-trivial application with it
- Learn git and use it exclusive on at least one project
- Learn Mercurial (hg) and use it exclusively on at least one project
- Learn OpenSolaris and adopt it as a part-time development platform
- Learn dtrace and other application performance analysis tools, and use them to improve the performance of at least one solution I develop
- Learn enough about Nagios for basic system monitoring
- Play with CouchDB
- Spend serious time learning EC2, running instances, monitoring them, respawning them, and so on — get comfortable in the cloud
- Significantly contribute to at least one open source project
- Write 80 or more articles for this blog over the course of 2009
Those are my resolutions for 2009. I’ll update this post as I fulfill each resolution.
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