January 9, 2010
Recap
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General
Almost a year ago I wrote some goals for the new
year. Now it is time for an assessment.
- Goal: Improve Ruby skills. Result: Partial success. I’m not at
what I would consider a professional standard, but not far off it. I
gemify’ed my BBC weather library, but have since abandoned it as
keeping up with the BBC’s constant API changes was frustrating. I
use Queusaurus even if no one else
does. I started another project, but it didn’t get far enough to
publicise.
- Goal: Learn Scala. Result: Have done some, but not much.
- Goal: Learn Blender. Result: Near Success. I feel confident
enough about this one. I haven’t completed an ancient scene, but I’m
sure I could.
- Goal: Decrease net ownership of physical goods. Result: Success.
Doing this slowly but surely - I own fewer things now than when I
wrote that goal, but not by much.
- Goal: 48 blog posts in a year. Result: 44 posts. I’m fairly
happy with that. Holidays and looking for a new work contract slowed
me down a bit.
- Goal: Run 5km in 25 minutes. Result: Not even close. The less
said the better.
- On the stretch goals, all are still a long distance away.
I think the main problem with achieving those goals was my tendency to
try doing too much. At one point (and continuing for a couple of months)
I had 6 programming projects on the go at once. Nothing progressed at
any pace over the last half of the year and that is what caused the most
slippage. Something to be aware of for the coming year.