{"id":196,"date":"2008-12-27T05:22:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T09:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2014-01-25T17:56:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T21:56:27","slug":"2008-is-coming-to-a-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/27\/2008-is-coming-to-a-close\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Is Coming To A Close&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of 2008 is approaching. It&#8217;s been a good year for this site. I&#8217;ve learned a bunch of new things, and the site grew significantly in its content and daily traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m enjoying the holiday, so I don&#8217;t have any new content to add, however, I figured I&#8217;d post up my patorjk.com-Related Goals for 2009:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Get good at JavaScript.<\/strong> It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve felt like I was really good at a particular language. At work, I was referred to as a &#8220;language person&#8221; by my boss several times since I seemed to be able to dive into any language they threw at me. Versatility is good, but sometimes I feel like I spread myself too thin. I could possibly get really good at Tcl, since I do a decent amount of Tcl programming at work, however, Tcl isn&#8217;t that fun of a language and it doesn&#8217;t easily do the things I would want to do (I could rant on and on about the pros and cons of Tcl, but I&#8217;ll spare you all).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Learn jQuery<\/strong>. Right now I&#8217;m learning Dojo, but I&#8217;d also like to learn jQuery, since I know my company uses and it appears to be the most popular JavaScript framework. Being familar with a couple of these frameworks is probably a good thing too.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Develop More Web Apps.<\/strong> I only released 4 total this year (not including ones that were re-done). This is well under the number I wanted to release. In the future I hope to release one a month, however, I don&#8217;t want to set myself up with an impossible goal, so I&#8217;ll just say I want to make more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Read At Least 4 Programming Books<\/strong>. I&#8217;m going to leave 2008 having read 2 completely and 4 part way through. Books can be a great motivator and a good source of learning.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Join A Programming Community.<\/strong> I wasn&#8217;t able to relaunch the patorjk.com forums this year, however, I do still miss the community of the old forums.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Write A WordPress Plug-In.<\/strong> WordPress is the name of the blogging software I use. I&#8217;ve played around with it a bit, but I haven&#8217;t really tried writing my own plug-in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Release Some Programming Examples.<\/strong> It&#8217;s been too long since I released one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s 3:30AM right now, so there may be a few I&#8217;m missing, but I think those sum up my mind set right now. Professionally I think I&#8217;d like to get back into .NET programming (I miss VB, but for a hobby, I want to stay focused on something, and right now I&#8217;m more into web programming than I am into Desktop apps). However, I have no idea what I&#8217;ll be doing this next year or even how much I&#8217;ll be able to say about it. <\/p>\n<p>2009 year should also be a big year for me personally. Right now I&#8217;m looking for a house with my girl friend, so I&#8217;m really excited about that. Also, my awful case of tinnitus (constant ringing in the ears) has gone down by about 75%-90% thanks to my switching toothpastes from one that contained Potassium Nitrate to one that didn&#8217;t (sensitive toothpastes typically have Potassium Nitrate), and I think it may go completely away. If you know anyone with tinnitus, be sure to pass on this bit of info.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I hope you all are having a happy and safe holiday and I hope you keep checking back in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of 2008 is approaching. It&#8217;s been a good year for this site. I&#8217;ve learned a bunch of new things, and the site grew significantly in its content and daily traffic. Right now I&#8217;m enjoying the holiday, so I don&#8217;t have any new content to add, however, I figured I&#8217;d post up my patorjk.com-Related &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/27\/2008-is-coming-to-a-close\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2008 Is Coming To A Close&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}