SQL Server Guru Denis Gobo tagged me on New Year’s eve and I totally missed it. Here is my list for 2009:
Further Develop my Freelance Business
I decided it was time to start consulting again so I did set up a DBA, this time to do short term freelance work. While I did some fun work for an outfit in California, my full-time responsibilities took precedence and business slowed down towards the end of the year. Right now I’m doing some non-profit work and expect to find new clients soon.
So drop me note if you need help with your web development projects.
Read more books
Here are a few on my queue:
The Brass Verdict— Michael Connelly (January)The Principles of Beautiful Web Design— Jason Beaird (January)Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters— Meg Meeker (February)Extreme Measures— Vince Flynn (April)Guilty— Ann Coulter (May)Liberty and Tyranny— Mark Levin (June)- Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications — Toby Segaran (In Progress…)
The Last Days— Joel Rosenberg (March 2010)- Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
- Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja — John Resig
- My Grandfather’s Son — Clarence Thomas
Learn Something New
Pick up an MVC framework for PHP. Currently playing with CodeIgniter.Finished in April — I developed a messaging application for work. It allows feeds, blog entries, press releases and customer notifications to be aggregated, categorized and tagged for public consumption. CodeIgniter rules!
Libraries used: SimplePie for super fast feed parsing and Arc90′s Twitter API Client.- Develop more .NET applications.
- Rediscover Java.