New Year's Resolutions
01/11/06 08:01 PM Filed in:
Geek
No, I don't actually have any New
Year's Resolutions. Should I? No, I don't think so.
But I am human, and I do have goals that change over time. I want to be healthier. And I want to play around in the new internet.
A few months ago, I found myself helping out on a secret project at work. No, I can't talk about it. There have been plenty of rumors about it out on the web. All I'll say is it's another geek tool. But it did inspire me to learn some new things. Much to Teresa's chagrin, I bought a new iMac G5. (A bit of a mistake as it turns out, but I still love the machine.) On it I've been playing with and learning about Web 2.0, and all that other stuff. I've started this blog. More interestingly (at least to me and perhaps people inside Apple), I've started an internal blog on what I'm working on now (which I also can't talk about). That blog is intended to be my modern replacement for an engineering notebook.
More things I want to learn about:
- More HTML/CSS/JavaScript (aka Ajax)
- Core Data
- Unit Testing (Not much to learn here. It's a matter of practice!)
- Ruby on Rails
But mostly I want to work a little harder at keeping up with what's going on technically in the world. Towards that end, I've started listening to a few podcasts. My favorite is probably This Week in Tech. I love to listen to John C. Dvorak piss and moan about how everything sucks.
But I am human, and I do have goals that change over time. I want to be healthier. And I want to play around in the new internet.
A few months ago, I found myself helping out on a secret project at work. No, I can't talk about it. There have been plenty of rumors about it out on the web. All I'll say is it's another geek tool. But it did inspire me to learn some new things. Much to Teresa's chagrin, I bought a new iMac G5. (A bit of a mistake as it turns out, but I still love the machine.) On it I've been playing with and learning about Web 2.0, and all that other stuff. I've started this blog. More interestingly (at least to me and perhaps people inside Apple), I've started an internal blog on what I'm working on now (which I also can't talk about). That blog is intended to be my modern replacement for an engineering notebook.
More things I want to learn about:
- More HTML/CSS/JavaScript (aka Ajax)
- Core Data
- Unit Testing (Not much to learn here. It's a matter of practice!)
- Ruby on Rails
But mostly I want to work a little harder at keeping up with what's going on technically in the world. Towards that end, I've started listening to a few podcasts. My favorite is probably This Week in Tech. I love to listen to John C. Dvorak piss and moan about how everything sucks.
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