It's Been a While...

since I wrote anything here, but that's mainly because I've been focused on finishing up the work for my Master's degree. And I'm happy to say that everything has been completed except for a few touch-up edits to my final paper. I'm very relieved that this process is over and I'm looking forward to evenings where I can choose to do whatever I want, or at least choose to do whatever I want without feeling guilty about procrastinating on my project :)

So what am I going to do? As far as software development is concerned my goals are the following:

1. Establish a regular Code Kata practice.
2. Continue learning math.
3. Add some more features to Grader that my brother requested and convert it into a web application using Ruby on Rails.
4. Establish a consistent GTD system.

Following through on these goals should also give me plenty of material to regularly post to this blog.

 

Of course, all of these goals are secondary to performing at my current job, which has been absolutely great so far. I finished up my first project about a month ago, released a cut of my second project today, and should be starting my third project in a couple of days. Each project has required me to work with a new programming language and/or work with a very interesting 3rd party API. Working from home has take some getting used to, but I'm definitely able to concentrate better and feel that my productivity has significantly increased.

I'm really looking forward to this time in my life and feel that completing my degree now affords me time to really concentrate on becoming a better developer.