My year in review
2014 has been a slightly bumpy ride but I am definitely in a better place than I started. Just the webdev stuff below:
In 2014, I
- Helped revive 2 dead meetup groups and started a UX meetup group in New Haven
- Wrote for an outside publication – Sitepoint
- Launched IncrementalUX, my UX consultancy business
- Moved from full time employment to full time student and work from home consultant
- Spent more time understanding other programming languages including Scheme, forth, lisp, ruby, python, C#
- Went back to basics for understanding javascript better
- Learnt Object oriented principles and rapid software development through C#
In 2015, I want to
- Be a better writer – try and write everyday
- Read a lot – Data visualization, storytelling, user experience
- Spend more time pursuing interests outside of web dev like physics, movies, books and music
- Write for some of the bigger publications / blogs like CSS-tricks, a list apart, smashing magazine
- Present at a conference
- Release open source projects that are long pending
- Work on one big project each on – AngularJS, ReactJS, Polymer, EmberJS, nodeJS
- Intern at Google
- Be a better programmer. Understand memory management, optimization, refactoring and TDD