Ah, end of the year. Obligatory post of reflection time? You bet!
I’ll sum the year up as "win". "Drama" comes in a distant second. Saved a damsel in distress, got more time to video game (finally getting around to playing Diablo 2, Half Life 2), had a kick-ass (but short) vacation in New York, and got into Code Igniter (PHP framework) that’s made web programming fun again.
I got back into working for the NSSF towards the end of the year, and the first fruit of my labor was finished by the end of December. Head Count is the culmination of writing online registration pages for the NSSF since college. Head Count eliminates the need for me to re-code their online registration every year and allows them to market this service to people beyond themselves, without my intervention. Basically it allows meet directors to set up a meet on their own and automate online entries — and it’s highly customizable. I used Code Igniter for it, meaning it’s a nice and clean MVC set up. Two months, and a lot of work, but it was worth it.
Work at ’Heed has been wonderful, although busy at times. I’ve finally been given roles there that allow me to show what I can do, as opposed to just being a generic low-level code monkey. I’ve even been considered for positions well beyond what I should be doing for my age/length with company (I turned them down since I want to keep coding and not do management, but cool none-the-less).
Continuing with the win, Kiera got me a wonderful xmas present - a canvas print of Samus (the main character from the Metroid video game series). It’s hanging next to our computers in the bedroom, and will look wonderful in the new office when we move (we’ve decided to be dorks and populate it with a tasteful amount of video-game and anime decorations).
I also got the first two issues of The Absolute Sandman. It’s a reissue of the Sandman series, there will be four issues total. Unlike the last run it isn’t just a repacking - they’ve gone back and massively touched up all of the pages brining new life to the comic. See halfway down the page here.
My only new years resolution for this year: become a better programmer. Don’t get me wrong, I know my stuff, but I have plenty of room to grow and more languages I’d like to get into. Something like learning (and using) Python this year would be great.
#1. Katie said:
Man, I got nothing for Christmas this year. Just a scarf, an electronic bubblewrap popper thing, and the materials to make my own Portal costume.
Head Count sounds awesome. I remember the hassle of track meet organization from High School.
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