Goals for 2009
"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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- Steve Withington Jan 12, 2009 at 9:50 PM Good luck on your goals for 2009 ... I'm sure you'll come out on top.