Chris Johnston

I have decided this year to set myself three New Year’s projects/story cards. Instead of creating some vague resolutions that are devoid of acceptance criteria or measurable goals, I am creating story cards and projects that have tangible and visible results.

1. Blog a minimum of once a week.
2. Resurrect my TeamDocs open source project and bring it to a 1.0 release
3. Create and release my first Ruby on Rails project

I am also going to manage these three goals as one would manage projects. I am not sure if I am going to use Basecamp or some other software. For TeamDocs, I will probably use the space on Google Code. This means I will be updating the website and checking in new code in the very near future.

As for the third project, more information on that will come. I am not sure if I am going to make it open source or try to release a hosted web application.

I took a look back at 2007 and realized that I had not really accomplished anything. In a nutshell, 2007 was mostly a brain-dead year for me. I made the mistake of relying on all my learning coming from work. Although I have learned lots of things little of it was technical. Instead, most of it was people or soft-skills. This was a mistake on my part; no one should ever rely on their work as their sole source for learning.