More to come/statement of intent

More of a statement of intend, for posterity’s sake hopefully. Something I can look back on and think “Oh, yeah, I meant to do that” later in the year. Also so I dont forget, or just decide I couldn’t be bothered. Why this all of a sudden? Well, it’s the start of the new year anyway, but in particular the first meetup of people from the Newcastle New Media list got me thinking. And in particular more than thinking, wanting to act on existing thoughts.

So, without further ado, here is a brief list of thinks I’m going to do this year – fingers crossed, in no partricular order and missing several things that no one reading this will care about:

• Get as much out of the Future of Web Apps Summit as possible. I’m pretty interested in the design of applications at the moment.
• Not still have a hangover for the Clearleft Ajax training session with Jeremy two days after the summit.
• Get an article written and published in something I read.
• Package up the feed syndicator code base under a decent name and release it for anyone to use.
• Produce a real application using Rails.
• Somehow get to all four (or is it five, I can’t remember) of the `media themed nights out – as well as as many of the workshops and presentations one personn can get to without
• On the back of our first real local meetup get a few projects moving. Everyone put email addresses to faces, which I think was important, and should make getting together doing something active easier from now on.
• And finally something vague; (note that this isn’t me with an idea under wraps, this is as far as I’ve got!) Design and build something of use to the wider web community.