2010 Goal List

I figure that I better document my 2010 goal’s before it gets too far into the new year. Per my previous 2009 goals, I actually did a pretty good job achieving them. I wrote about my accomplishment’s below but then I deleted it, because even I was bored! :)

1. I am getting back into the typing. I feel like Kevin Costner in “Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves” when someone comes behind me at work; I start typing like an idiot and shoot my arrow in the bushes.
2. I used to play guitar; I even took lessons in high school and a classical guitar class in college. This weekend I changed the strings on my acoustic for the first time in 10 years. I plan to get back into playing and my fingertips are already hurting.
3. Most of my work experience is with .NET. I really enjoyed working with Unix when I was at a previous job and want to learn a different MVC framework and a dynamic language, so Rails is where I am setting my sights. I have an Ubuntu Linux VM setup with VirtualBox and have been working through some tutorials. I really want to attend the Austin On Rails meetings and hope that I go.
4. I also will continue my .NET journey and have some great people to guide me now that I work at Dovetail Software. My current goals are to be competent and comfortable at unit testing/TDD and to understand fubuMVC inside-out.
5. I will continue to attempt fitting a game of tennis in every week, it appears that I actually work with a couple of tennis players, so I may have lucked out.

That’s it. Done.