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New Year's Resolutions for 2009

December 30, 2008

1) Lose some weight.

Over the past 5 years or so I've put on about 40 pounds. Clearly I've become too obsessed with programming and the internet in general. I blame Ruby and Ruby on Rails for making my recent web development projects way more fun than usual. Or perhaps it's my late night cravings for Peanut Butter Crunch and milk.

2) Finish up some lingering home improvement projects.

I have some drywall to finish, some light fixtures to install, a bathroom sink to plumb, and a few other odds and ends on my plate. It's not hard stuff, just gotta do it.

3) Learn a new programming language.

I picked up Ruby about 4 or 5 years ago. I picked up Python about 2 years ago but haven't touched it much since. I've been hoping Perl6 might be released soon, but who knows? I could easily count Perl6 as a new language since I haven't done any significant Perl work in over a decade. After 10+ years with PHP, it simply doesn't interest me anymore. The Zend Framework is an utter failure and smart PHP developers are all learning Rails anyway. So I dunno.. maybe something will pop up.

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php, ruby, rubyonrails, perl6

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