Goals for 2010: Mid Year Review

So I know it’s not anywhere near the end of this current year, in-fact we’re pretty much exactly half way through, but I kind of felt inspired this morning to write such a post. On my old blog I just found this post - titled “Goals for 2010”. As I’m at the mid point, I guess I should review them:

 

  • Post at least once a week on this blog. Mega Fail
  • Get my own design going on here – which will mean learning how to integrate Wordpress. Since moved from Wordpress to Tumblr and redesigning as I speak. So 50/50 Fail.
  • Launch a new project I’ve been working on with a friend and make some money from it. Fail. College work and other stuff got the better of us. I still believe the idea is a winner though.
  • Pass my Driving Test (should have this done pretty soon). MAJOR SUCCESS! WOOHOO!
  • Post at least once per fortnight on TheWebSqueeze.com. Mega Fail. I had a break from writing for others, but I had an article on there about 2 weeks ago and more to come.
  • Have a post posted on Nettuts.com. Fail
  • Get featured on an online web publication. I was interviewed by @bkmacdaddy. MAJOR SUCCESS!
  • Get the grades needed to go to Bath Uni to study Computer Science. Don’t know yet, but I’m not hopeful.
  • Attend at least 4 Bar Camps. I’m on 1 so far and know of two more I should be going to at least. So still in progress. Gutted I’ve only made 1 so far though.
  • Attend at least 3 conferences. 0 so far. But should make it to dConstruct and a couple more possibly. A work in progress.
  • Redesign my personal site. 50/50 Win/Fail. I redesigned then decided I didn’t like it so I reverted back.
  • Learn Expression Engine. I’m going to have to use it for my job in the next fortnight +, so I’ll be learning it very shortly.
  • Learn CodeIgniter extensively and release one plugin for it. Working on it.
  • Do enough freelancing to bring in £100 pw. Major fail. However I do now have a web development job which gives me money.
  • Extend my Twitter following to 1500. I’ve plateaued out at 730ish it seems.
  • Read at least 10 web books. Logo Design Love, CodeIgniter 1.7, The Website Owner’s Manual. I’ve got a couple on pre-order and some more I plan to buy. I’m working on it :)
  • Get up to Level 70 on Call of Duty MW2. Sod this. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is much better so I play that.
  • Launch one personal side project. For a short while stuffweoverhear.com was alive, but the domain expired and I didn’t see the value in renewing it. If anyone wants to, go ahead! The site does exist at stuffweoverhear.tumblr.com

So…a couple of minor victories there. I did take a bit of an exodus from the web for a couple of months around exam time due to…yeah you guessed it, exams. So…here’s my renewed goals which need to be achieved by January 1st, 2011. 

  • Get a full time job as a web developer. I’m currently on a 6 week spell working for @Squizzled, and there is a chance this may turn into full time come September. If it does, then I may well stay, but if not, I need to find another job. I’m not very hopeful of getting the grades for Uni, in all honesty.
  • Release a web app that uses CodeIgniter.
  • Get an iPad! :D
  • Attend 3 more Barcamps.
  • Attend 2 Conferences. Toned this down from 3 - I already know the two I’ll be going to.
  • Post weekly on a blog. I want to have one post a week somewhere - a guest tutorial on another blog or here.
  • Improve my design skills.
  • Release a Mac application that is useful (learning Cocoa/Obj C at the moment).
  • Read/Buy 7 more web books.
  • Be interviewed/featured on another online blog.

Here’s to a successful 6 months!

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