New Year's Resolution

For the past two months, I gave myself a long break. Two reasons, a plate full of trivial and not-so-trivial projects and tasks, then, lazy in nature, I let every free minute go out of my hands. 

 

Now the year of 2008 is gone, almost.

 

Time to take a deep breath and make a list of new year's wishes and resolutions.

 

All of them vague.

 

Reading

 

First of all, I need to step up my reading. Not just randomly articles, code samples turned up by Google, or even those kicked on the Dotnetkicks. But also the list of blogs, such as Rick Strahl's blog, and Esconia, and Coding Horror and The secret Life of a spaghetti coder. Also books. As much I want to go paperless, books still provide me anchor and structure. In the year of 2008, the best programming book I read is "ASP. NET 2.0 website programming Problem - Design - Solution". This year, I wish I could read more.

 

Writing

 

Blog and articles. JQuery, MVC, Silverlight, .NET 3.5 (Is 4.0 on the horizon?) Coding experiences, ah-ha moments, problems encountered and solved. Writing to me is a perfect way of learning.

 

Coding

 

This goes without saying. However it would be best if I could jump out of my comfort zone and take a look the new, the powerful and the hot. I am always dread downloading/installing new software and playing with it. Still half-baked (or little-baked) in MVC, Silverlight, JQuery, still new to the .net 3.5, WCFs. I am pretty clueless about Ruby, LINQ. 

 

Even with my coding, I am bad at testing and commenting and commenting well. 

 

Well, hope in the new year, I do better