2014 In Review
December 31, 2014
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2014
In tribute to Fogus’ blog post, I’ve decided to do something similar outlining my 2014 and plans for the year to come.
Open Source Projects Published
Side projects started
- Task Docket
Side projects finished
- None
Businesses sold
Offspring born
One Son
Households moved
One
Blogs started
One. You’re here!
Favorite books read
Full list of books read and my thoughts here.
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
- Blackett’s War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare Warfare Paperback by Stephen Budiansky
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy
- I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
TV Series Watched
- Sopranos - Thanks Amazon Prime! A classic for a reason. The series finale blew my mind. Well done.
- Walking Dead - Becoming a little contrived at this point, but I like anything distopian.
- Game of Thrones - Best series on TV right now.
Courses Taken
Ongoing education and development have always been important to me. This year I made an additional commitment to going back and studying the basics. I’ve been using Git, HTML, and CSS for years now, but by going back and studing base-level materials, I was able to learn from other people’s work flows, catch up on some recent developments, and referesh my own skills.
- Stanford - Machine Learning
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Functional Programming Principles in Scala
- CodeSchool Git Path
- CodeSchool HTML/CSS Path
Programming Languages/Frameworks/Technologies/etc. used
- PHP
- MySQL
- Drupal
- Wordpress
- Python
- Django
- Pelican
- Ruby
- Jekyll
- Java
- Scala
- Octave
- JavaScript
- jQuery
- CSS
- HTML
- AWS [Amazon Web Services]
- S3
- EC2
- CloudFront
- Route 53
- Heroku
- NetSuite
Plans for 2015
- Be a better open source community member. Publish & Contribute.
- Average at least one blog post per week.
- Complete at least one side-project.
- Build one hardware based project up to functional state. Currently thinking something in the mobile/bluetooth/WiFi area.
- Network more, especially in the local Austin startup scene.
- Improve time management and planning. Start each day with set goals.