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
Snow Crash?
Snow Crash? Really? Cyberspace motorcycle chases and all?
I've always filed that novel under "Mac users shouldn't write about computers".
