Well, how did I do

Well, the year is ever so nearly over. Again. I’m sure their will be a good few round ups, I’ll probably even partake again, but thought I’d start off with a quick look at how I got on with my list of stuff to do.

I did the conference thing again and I’m sure I will be back this coming year. `media, Future of Web Apps and dConstruct all look like going from strength to strength. And all being different enought to be worth going along. And I stayed awake throughout the Ajax workshops and I’m pretty sure I got to everything `media had to offer. So that’s three ticked off.

On the article publishing thang. Well, I’m know writing for Vitamin – doing book reviews as often as I can do, two so far on Communicating Design and Using Microformats and more to come. Hopefully more to come on that front too. Another tick I reckon.

The next two, related to building and releasing stuff (specifically Rails and the feed syndicator) I sort of passed on. I actually have some things in the works but I’m not likely to get their this year. The reason was probably my flirtation with all sorts of other things – in particular Python. Releasing bits of code is something I’m going to do more of. Watch this space. Two crosses.

Locally I messed up the domain name but settled on the nicer refreshnewcastle.org and with a little help from Matthew Patterson Pennell have a nice new site. Next year I want to do more than just web site related bits an pieces. Maybe half a tick?

Now the “something vague” idea. Well, teaching web design at Newcastle College definately counts here I think. I didn’t see this coming and hopefully I’m doing a good job so far.

Ok, so not bad going, but I could do better. And looking back over a list I made a year ago is quite interesting. I guess I’m posting this early to encourage anyone reading it to post a list of things they want to do next year. Anyone got any ideas?