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malte
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http://joose-js.blogspot.com/

Working on Joose JavaScript meta system (Blog) [blogspot.com] and blok [appspot.com], a web based application for collaborative ui prototyping.

Friday December 30, 2005

12:53 PM

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Following spur's tradition I'll add my summary of 2005, too

Professional

My team turned from a being the internet department of an advertising agency to being our own little company.
I got promoted to "Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung" which basically means the I run the store :)
Besides being an overall good year, we gained a couple of large new customers and managed to achieve a 55% growth rate and we have fixed projects for next year which should sum up to least an extra 33% growth
We launched an internet lottery with live broadcating of the drawings every 3 minutes
I looked into switching our web development to Catalyst but had to find out that it's not much different than what we have been doing for 4 years now.
We switched our source control to svn and are very happy with it
We started using RT but found out that its just too big for us
We started using wikimedia for knowledge management
We will start using Trac next year
Still with me? Want to work for us? :)

Personal

I turned 25 - a quarter century, that is. Getting old...
I went on a 2 weeks snowboarding vacation to austria and I just finished making a movie from it
In fall I spend 2 weeks in greece in a very nice house righr next to the water
My girlfriend is still with me.

Reading

Smalltalk best Practices - Kent Beck - Must Read!
Perl best Practices - Damian Conway - Must Read!
Code Complete - Steve McConnel - No done yet
Higher Order Perl - MJD - Very Good, but the books wants to talk to Ex-C programmers and I am an ex-smalltalk programmer.
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Martin Fowler - Very Good
User Interface Design - Joel Spolsky - Not convinced
Joel on Software - Joel Spolsky - Funny
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson - Masterpiece
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson - Masterpiece
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson - Masterpiece
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - alright
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown - sucks bad
Angels & Demons - Dan Brown - alright

Next year I'll read more tech books and everything by Neal Stephenson that I haven't read yet

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