2008 and 2009

Sat, Jan 3, 2009

Eric Florenzano recently wrote an excellent post titled, “2008 in Review & 2009 Goals”. I am now going to blantly steal his idea.

2008:

• Joined Twitter
• Voted for the first time
• Had a blast at PyCon
• Wrote a reusable Django application and open sourced it
• Learned git
• Got accepted at, and began studying Computer Science at RPI
• Wrote a blog post every day for 30 days in a row
• Started work on my programming language, Al
• Contributed heavily to Django
• Started a blog
• Proposed a panel for PyCon 2009 and was accepted

And probably quite a bit more.

2009:

• Continue work on Al, bring it up to a usable state
• Continue writing on my blog
• Propose a talk for another conference
• Continue contributing to Django
• Become a committer on one of the projects I use
• Do something interesting over the summer, hopefully a cool internship or Google Summer of Code
• Do well in class

In light of all the stuff that happened in 2008 I hope these are reasonable goals.