2009

The past year brought a lot less than I expected, no personal projects were really finished. But I did learn a lot, about maintenance, development and personal growth. I set out to read a few books, Deepak Chopra amongst then; not done. I wanted to create a new look & feel for my blog; not even started. I started a small project to create a Wordpress plug-in that detects vcards (microformats) and creates a visible floating card; half done. In december I found Highcharts and wanted to turn it into a Wordpress plug-in; going steady. It seems like 2009 wasn’t to successful, but that’s not quite true. I’ve been busy at work, helping out everywhere I can. I’ve learned quite a lot about Javascript, social media, cloud computing, architecture and so on.

The goals I had for 2009 were not missed, they just changed. When the road ahead for the company was discussed at work, I reminded my colleagues about the fact, that – just like in any/every agile project – goals are in constant flux, changing and moving around.

2010

So what’s going to happen in the coming year? Since I was on the topic of “agile”, I can say that I’m becoming a member of Dragon Open Source Foundation. DOSF is a group of people from Sundsvall that aim to become the main source for information regarding Open Standards and Open Source Software for the public sector in Sweden. This fits perfectly with my goal to help the Swedish public sector to start focussing more on Open Source and Agile development. (A big thanks to Peter Axelsson, my previous boss at Steria, for pushing me into DOSF.)

Personal projects are always a bit tricky, mine are mostly revolved around development. There are a few things I’ve been thinking about turning into Wordpress plug-ins; MathJax and Wordle. MathJax should be pretty straight forward, but not Wordle. At least not how I have it in mind, pure CSS3 based. Replacing the tag cloud with something that works and looks like Tagul, using only CSS3 should be a very nice challenge and CSS3 skill sharpening project.

The road ahead has been planned, now it’s time to rip it apart and just have fun sailing through 2010.