"Having goals is a pain in the neck... It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact... those people have goals." - Seth Godin**
Being someone who wants to get things done, lead, grow, and make an impact, I think it's time I set some goals. So here in no particular order are some goals I'm setting for myself in 2009. These are only geeky personal goals; things like surviving my first year of fatherhood will go on my other blog.
- Learn both Transfer and ColdFusion 9's baked in edition of Hibernate. ORM is something I've long wanted to know, and I have a feeling that both will have their place. After all, I know how to use both the CF8 Ajax tags and jQuery Ajax, and both of those have their place. It also doesn't hurt that people who use Transfer with ColdSpring rave about how awesome it is, and I already drank the ColdSpring koolaid...
- Finish Grub 1.0, release/publicize it, and hopefully see my first 16 users. (Because even numbers are powers of 2, of course.) I may need to come up with a better domain name as web 2.0-y names have fallen out of favor... Any ideas?
- Start work on refactoring Grub, possibly as a 2.0 release. I've learned so much in working towards 1.0 that I'm almost embarrassed by the code. But the most important part is that it works... then we can worry about pretty code. So I'm not letting myself get hung up on imperfect OO-design and instead just focusing on finishing features and fixing bugs to get it up and running.
- Install Flex Builder and at least write a hello-world app. Maybe also make that into a hello-world AIR app. I really need to get my behind in gear on this Flex thing. If things work out, maybe I'll develop a Flex front-end for Grub. :)
Those are the most prominent things on my mind lately. I don't want to set too many goals, or I'll never finish them all.
** Yes, I stole the link and inspiration from Joel on Software. I'm sure he's not the first though, just the most prolific.
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January 12 2009
This year is A List Apart's second year running their Survey For People Who Make Websites. I just completed it (18 pages, average 2-3 questions per page) in about 8 minutes, so what are you waiting for?
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July 29 2008
I figured since I was finally going to have some proper ColdFusion
hosting, I might as well check out the latest and greatest from our
various CFML blogging engines. I'd used BlogCFC in the past, so this time I decided to give Mango
a test drive. So far, I'm really liking it. Mango has an integrated
database setup and the option to import from WordPress exports and
BlogCFC. It's apparently got easy but powerful plugin support (which I
intend to explore soon), and is supposed to be one of the easier blogs
to skin -- again, something I intend to explore soon.
With some help from Laura in the Mango support forums,
I was able to work through some quirky import issues (pages that belong
to a category aren't supported in Mango, but apparently I had them in
WP -- this was throwing an error during import, should be fixed in an
upcoming release, I'm sure) and got all of my old posts and comments
imported. I managed to remember what my FeedBurner password was, so I
even managed to pull off the switch without upsetting continuity in
aggregators like ColdFusionBloggers, Feed Squirrel and AXNA. Although I have to apologize if it ends up causing doubles of anything.
Lastly, I also setup request forwarding from my previous host (on another of my domains still temporarily hosted there) to my new host and domain, pretty much just like Ray did when he moved to ColdFusionJedi.com. Since my old host didn't support SES urls, I had to use the ID from the url to lookup the post title and forward the url to this domain.
So how do you like the new domain? Eh?
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July 23 2008
Often times I subscribe to people's blog posts when I leave a comment, because I'm interested in other folks' comments as well. Unfortunately, this occasionally means that a spam comment ends up in my inbox:
My question is this: Should I report this as spam? I mean, I did kind of ask for it (not really... but yeah... but no).
The last thing I want is for GMail to start filtering all blog comment emails as spam. I think this is where some transparency with Google could help. What exactly do they do with a message after we mark it as spam? Or heck, give us configurable white/black lists.
What do you do?
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July 17 2008