Software development industry analysis by Larry O'Brien, the former editor of Software Development and Computer Language
Saturday, December 31, 2005

New resolutions:

  • Release at least one significant "long-tail" Web-based training resource;
  • Write at least one article to be sold by micropayments;
  • Develop professional-level competence in WinFX;
  • Maintain 6 AM - 2 PM working discipline;
  • Free-dive goals: 3 minutes; 100' depth;
  • Go surfing; 
  • Memorize the field marks, common, scientific, and Hawaiian names of the 50 most common reef fish in every developmental phase;
  • Figure out a fitness routine that isn't so "weekend warrior";
  • Rewrite my novel to submission-quality

Last year's resolutions:

Achieved:

  • grow, harvest, mill, and roast my own coffee;
  • write a game for the Tablet PC
  • "Get Things Done" between 6AM and 2PM;
  • make at least the same amount of money I did this year;
  • maintain professional competence in in C++ (/CLI!), C#, and Java;

Close, but no cigar:

  • do a 3 minute free-dive (my personal best is a 2:51 dive in September, but I haven't come close to duplicating it);
  • consistently throw a golf disc 120 yards;
  • memorize the field marks, common, scientific, and Hawaiian names of the 50 most common reef fish in every developmental phase;

Not even close:

  • get barreled;
  • write a distributed genetic algorithm;
  • release at least two significant Web-based training resources;
  • evolve my shape-recognition library;
  • implement a domain-specific language for mediating between OTA requests, business rules, and at least 2 major Global Distribution Systems (Sabre and To Be Named)

Also, I decided that programming in Python in ink was not a viable idea, which wiped out the Pynk-related resolutions:

  • become professionally competent in Python
  • evolve Pynk to the point where it's a reasonable way to program with a pen;
  • release Pynk as OSS;

 

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