So in 2010 Zed has written his own web server which runs his new framework he wrote for the new webapp he wrote.
What did you do this year?
What did you do this year?
I fully rewrote, updated and released a webapp called WantMyJob.com.
I wrote a circuit simulator game called Shanna's Pizza to start teaching my two-year-old the basics of programming. I also started doing Snap Circuits with her so she'd have a physical basis to understand the circuit simulator game. Also, had a second kid.
I wrote a Rails 3 tutorial, including an app with logins and nested resources, called RefactorIt!
I finally put together a real programming portfolio, on the web and everything (angelbob.com/portfolio).
I read up on Bayesian Statistics and Data Analysis (thanks, O'Reilly!).
I blogged and blogged and blogged.
I reworked, resurrected and took screen shots of a scary amount of my old work, partly for the portfolio. This sort of blurs with converting my old Rails stuff to Rails 3, but I did some of both.
I continued to work on my day job, of course. And gave a JRuby presentation for Engine Yard based on what we do there.
Did you know you get more done if you write it down somewhere (like a blog and portfolio) and tell people about it? True story.
That's probably part of Zed's trick, too.
PS. Is RailsGame open source ? It looks interesting!
Do you find that? I'm the opposite, once I "announce" something all desire and motivation for completion goes out of the window. For me I think it's about the appreciation, so when I explain the idea and love it, why complete it.
Other times I get infected with an idea and have to crank out a prototype to see if it'd work. When I'm done, I still try to throw it up there and see what people think. Usually the process of writing about it actually helps me work out if it's worth it or not as well.
Oh, nope, that was Zed, too!
(But seriously, Mongrel 2 is an amazing work of software engineering. In addition to being a good web server, it's also a good example of how nice C is if you forget how they did it in the 70s and write it like it's 2010.)
I mean we are mostly all people who make stuff here. I am slightly offended by your attitude that ZS is some how showing us up and we need to prove what we did this year.
The hero worship really puts me off checking HN.
According to Wikipedia, the 4.0 scale is anything but standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(education)
Oh, and everyone over a 4.0 was reported as valedictorian.
They've since decreased the 'bonus' quite a lot.
* Grew my main business, had our first year where I've not had a single worry about running out of money (touch wood) in the middle of a serious recession.
* Started building academic and vendor relationships (never thought I'd do that) to develop new technologies and services.
* Did more vulnerability research this year than I have in the last two but haven't published anything public yet.
* Moved to Sales, Marketing, now back to Technical for the time being.
* Took on a business partner and mentor
* Bid for two research grants
* Built up pipeline, wrote more proposals than I have in a long time.
* Seriously damaged my knee in a freak dancing accident.
* Grew a Mo to support Prostate Cancer charities (and raised a few bob too)
* Started a proper non-security side project (http://www.minklinks.com/) - failed to get it into beta for HN November but it will be out before year end.
* Did a whole load of pentesting.
That's it so far, still more things to come before year end though. Hope I pull them off.
* I quit my full time job, start doing contracting again.
* I co-founded http://cooln.es to test our theory about points relationships between social sites.
* I founded http://mybucket.co because all other bookmarking apps are too much work.
* manual classification of news is too much work, so I created Bayesian filter on top of Redis. It's open source: https://github.com/didip/bayes_on_redis
* I'm still helping out Python newcomers on Pylons, Tornado, and recently Flask mailing list.
* I fix bugs on a couple of gems.
* I start blogging again.
* I start learning http://keplerproject.github.com/orbit not too long ago after answering my own question "I wish there's a hybrid between ruby+python and faster than both."
I'd say it hasn't been a bad year.