One year gone. As I'm sure most of these types of posts say, this year's been crazy. I got married to my best friend, took a job at a great start-up, wrote a book, and bought a house! Talk about a banner year.
I discovered a lot about myself. One, writing on my blog isn't as much fun when writing becomes work. I thought I would blog a lot more about the book writing experience, but after putting in an 8 (or 12) hour day at my day job and spending 2 - 4 hours writing after that, writing here wasn't the release it once was.
The book's over though, so now I've got no good excuse. My OmniFocus is full of ideas for blog posts. This next year, I'm going to get some of those down on "paper" to share. Of course, those posts are in addition to the copious amount of posts I make on Twitter.
Back in January, the other Travis and I started up Lawrence Programmers. It's a language agnostic group of geeks. We started with a monthly schedule, but didn't find out groove until the summer. Lawrence Programmers Drinking Nights (LPDN) are a weekly get together to grab food and some beverages and BS about geek stuff. It's been great getting to know the local geeks better.
There's all sorts of other things too. Didn't spend nearly enough time on my bike, but got Meg hooked on hers. Contributed ideas to a lot of software projects and spent some time playing with on my own stuff. Learned Erlang and Python well enough to hack in both. And I'm sure in my drug-induced stupor (God bless cold medicine), I've barely scratched the surface.
I've got a few new things planned for 2009. I'll fill you in on them as they come to fruition. In the meantime, I leave you with this auditory year-in-review from the guys over at Lawrence.com A note of warning: it is a little raw in some areas, so its not for those offended by such things as cursing or rick-rolls.
Happy 2009!
It's been kind of quiet around here. It's not that I haven't had much to say, it's that I haven't had the time to say it! For those of you who follow my various microblogs probably even noticed a dip in updates over the last few weeks. Every last ounce of energy has been put into the final push for the book and I had to cut back on the distractions to make it through.
Now that it's over, I get to pay attention to some majorly neglected areas. First and foremost is my bike. We're in the middle of a great fall here and I haven't gotten much riding in at all. Note to self: write books in the winter, not the summer.
Next up is PHPT. I've got a few people interested in helping out with it. I'm still working toward 100% drop-in replacement for PHP's run-tests.php. There's still a bit to go, but it's getting close. I've got a little over a month to get it really rocking, though. My Testing the PHP Way: PHPT tutorial was accepted to php|works, so the test suite had better be up to par before then. :-)
I'm also giving my The Future is Not Yet Widely Distributed talk in the agnostic track—tracks that aren't PHP or Python specific. The talk is an hour long introduction to Git. Now that I've written the book on Git, I'd better be able to talk about it for at least an hour. :-D
I am planning on having both talks available as screencasts/video talks too for anyone who can't make it to the conference.
Anyhow, that's the quick update. Now that I'm not spending all of my free time writing, I can get back to writing some more here for fun. Look for some posts on programming soon. I'm going to be learning more about OpenSocial now that we're supporting it in a big way @ Ning.
