2008 in Review & 2009 Goals

2008 was a great year of activity and excitement. I’ve got the sneaking suspicion that 2009 is going to be no less busy.

  • Finished and published my first book!
  • Spoke at CUFP and met a lot of really smart people.
  • Gave several tech-talks and presentations.
  • Learned how to develop apps for the iPhone.
  • Migrated I Play WoW from a Perl app to an Erlang app.
  • Learned about CouchDB.
  • Learned Git.
  • Accepted a lead position at EA.

This is what I’d like to accomplish in 2009.

  • Finish my second book.
  • Do more tech-talks and presentations.
  • Have a 100 day streak of open source commits on GitHub.
  • Write more technical articles and entries.
  • Learn Python.
  • Hit level 80 with Korale and get into tier 9.
  • Grow I Play WoW to 75,000 monthly active users.