{"id":532,"date":"2009-12-24T22:08:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T02:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2014-01-25T17:52:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T21:52:30","slug":"merry-christmas-and-happy-holidays-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/24\/merry-christmas-and-happy-holidays-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been bad about updating the past couple of months, I should have some interesting stories for next year though. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a pretty amazing year. I got engaged, bought a house, wrote a couple of new web apps, learned a lot about Tcl and JavaScript, visited Northern California (and then got stranded in Phoenix on my way back &#8211; due to the blizzard going on in Maryland), worked over 180 hours of overtime, and gained a lot of weight (the last one&#8217;s not a good thing, but it&#8217;ll give me a goal of losing weight for the new year).<\/p>\n<p>I looked up my resolutions for this past year and I think I did ok. Here&#8217;s the list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Get good at JavaScript:<\/strong> I feel like I&#8217;ve accomplished this one. There&#8217;s more for me to know, but I feel like I really know my way around the language.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Learn jQuery:<\/strong> Didn&#8217;t even look at it this year. There are a lot of cool JavaScript frameworks out there though. I&#8217;ll probably get around to learning jQuery at some point, but I don&#8217;t think knowing it is as important as I used to.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Develop More Web Apps:<\/strong> The Typing Speed Test, the HTML Canvas game, the Blog Stylometry Tool, and lots of updates to the Keyboard Layout Analyzer. I was sort of quiet near the end of the year, but I expect for things to pick up again here soon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Read At Least 4 Programming Books:<\/strong> Learning Dojo, Learning ExtJS, JavaScript: The Good Parts, and Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software. JavaScript: The Good Parts and Learning ExtJS were the best of that group, and after thinking more about it, probably the only two I&#8217;d recommend from the list.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Join A Programming Community:<\/strong> I did not do this, unless you count my subscription to the Programming Sub-Reddit at reddit.com. I&#8217;ll give myself half credit here.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Write A WordPress Plug-In:<\/strong> I had a couple of ideas, but I lost interest.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Release Some Programming Examples:<\/strong> I still want to do this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I achieved 3.5 of my 7. Not too shabby, I feel like I accomplished what was important to me, and that&#8217;s probably better than meeting the goals I think up at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>This probably wont be my last post of the year (I&#8217;ve got a book review coming), but I hope everyone out there has a great holiday and a happy new year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been bad about updating the past couple of months, I should have some interesting stories for next year though. It&#8217;s been a pretty amazing year. I got engaged, bought a house, wrote a couple of new web apps, learned a lot about Tcl and JavaScript, visited Northern California (and then got stranded in Phoenix &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/24\/merry-christmas-and-happy-holidays-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!<\/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":[25,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspective","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","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=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}