Thu, 04 Sep 2008
Pragmatic Investment Plan - End of 2008
In the past I've written up a small list of general goals to help measure my technical progress. Over the last few years I've become a lot busier and this habit fell by the wayside. But no more! I've got a quarter left and I'm going to try and complete...
- Write and publish a technical article.
- Attend two technical events.
- Read and review 3 books.
- Write and publish two Perl modules.
- Create a personal Debian repo
- Create 4 Debian packages, at least one of which should contain other peoples code.
- Write 30 blog posts - at least 15 of which should be technical.
- Choose the programming language I'll be learning next year.
Considering this is one of the busiest times of the year I have no idea how far I'll get but I do think it's worth at least an attempt.
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Posted: 2008/09/04 21:34 | /career | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Ubiquity - More Than Just Shiny Chrome
While Google Chrome has been getting all the press coverage recently Ubiquity, from Mozilla Labs, is where all the interesting action seems to be happening.
Ubiquity ticks all the boxes for me, it's a simple, easy to use idea, that'll save me time. It's easily extensible and already has a huge community of people working, enhancing and just trying new things with it. All the things I've come to expect from Firefox and the Mozilla using community.
I personally think this is an important distinction to make - while Google Chrome is a new browser with some great ideas (and a quickly revised EULA) FireFox is a proven, Free platform that encourages extension and has a track record of doing the right thing.
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Posted: 2008/09/04 20:58 | /tools/firefox | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
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