Last post here was slightly over 2 months ago. Before that, a spate of posts around 3 months previous, and before that, almost 5 months went by. So why even bother with a blog if it’s not going to be updated? Good question. Solution: write more. I have a very specific memory of reading a story about how to judge your achievements. The gist was that you have to be honest and judge against the original goal, not the goal that evolved over time. I haven’t been able to find the original story, but the idea that being brutally honest is the only way to judge appeals to me.
With that in mind, here are my 2010 goals:
Personal
- Be a good husband and father. When I’m with my family, be fully with them. Appreciate them as they are, every day, every way.
- Be better with our finances. Start setting us up for financial stability.
- Go back to school. Start on a Masters in Computer Science.
- Get healthy. Work up to a 5 mile run again.
Work
- Write once a week on topics that would be helpful to UCD
- Present 4 times during the year, either internally or externally
- Spend two hours a day coding, either Objective-C, javascript, HTML5, or CSS
- Implement HTML5, CSS3 in prototypes
- Implement WCAG 2.0 and ARIA in prototypes
- Turn one idea a month into a working example
- Develope at least one complete iPhone application, either for UCD or a project.
Tech (all things computing)
- Come up with an idea for an iPhone app. Design and build it.
- Write at least once a week on this site. Cross posting to the UCD WebDev blog is ok, too.
- Design a new look for this site and implement it. Learn more about typography in the process.
There’s my line in the sand. We’ll see how it goes.