I just turned an exciting year on my current job at www.xe.gr. I feel that much happened during this year, and now it's time for an account of things done, and scheduling tasks to be done in the future.
During this year:
1. I contributed to an e-commerce application and its shopping cart.
2. I got introduced to the Restless services, and implemented a restless API.
3. I found out that there are JSP alternatives, that are better for front-end developers.
4. I discovered the power of dynamic languages. Perl, Python and Scala are now in my immediate interests.
5. I realised that Tomcat servlet container can do the job as an "application server". JBoss, Websphere and Weblogic are great application servers for those who don't care about the overhead (or configuration) of preinstalled frameworks.
6. I dropped my absolute belief to relational databases as Oracle and MySQL, as I discovered NoSQL databases as MongoDB and Cassandra.
7. Now I am aware of over a hundred open source projects that can be usefull and I must use during my career.
8. I studied many lines of bad written legacy code, and I supported it.
9. I was introduced to the agile development process, and especially to Extreme Programming.
10. I used 2 major bug tracking systems professionally: Bugzilla and JIRA.
11. I created an account to a social network for professionals: linkedin.com
12. I created my account on twitter and twitted about 50 times.
13. I dropped an eye out of the box and I saw Javascript can be a server side programming language.
14. I decided to regulary attend the meetings of 2 user groups: jhug (Java Hellenic User Group) and greecejs (greek javascript user group).
15. I first used Maven as the build tool of my projects.
16. I extensivelly used subversion for versioning.
17. I created my account at github, started 2 new open source projects and started learning git for versioning.
18. I recently acquired an android smartphone, so, I started using mobile internet and I read more using the kindle application.
19. Now I can see much more potential in the smart mobile devices, and as a result I care more about mobile software development.
20. I purchased about 15 ebooks and 5 printed books about software development.
Phew! Pretty awsome and fascinating year!
And there is more...
I met great people with great personalities, who communicated their invaluable experiences and their interestingly different point of view.
I made some friends, and I spent great time lunching and drinking beers.
At the personal level, I admit that the current and the next year will be the greatest years of my life because in a few months I will take the greatest responsibility of my life: being a father.
During this year:
1. I contributed to an e-commerce application and its shopping cart.
2. I got introduced to the Restless services, and implemented a restless API.
3. I found out that there are JSP alternatives, that are better for front-end developers.
4. I discovered the power of dynamic languages. Perl, Python and Scala are now in my immediate interests.
5. I realised that Tomcat servlet container can do the job as an "application server". JBoss, Websphere and Weblogic are great application servers for those who don't care about the overhead (or configuration) of preinstalled frameworks.
6. I dropped my absolute belief to relational databases as Oracle and MySQL, as I discovered NoSQL databases as MongoDB and Cassandra.
7. Now I am aware of over a hundred open source projects that can be usefull and I must use during my career.
8. I studied many lines of bad written legacy code, and I supported it.
9. I was introduced to the agile development process, and especially to Extreme Programming.
10. I used 2 major bug tracking systems professionally: Bugzilla and JIRA.
11. I created an account to a social network for professionals: linkedin.com
12. I created my account on twitter and twitted about 50 times.
13. I dropped an eye out of the box and I saw Javascript can be a server side programming language.
14. I decided to regulary attend the meetings of 2 user groups: jhug (Java Hellenic User Group) and greecejs (greek javascript user group).
15. I first used Maven as the build tool of my projects.
16. I extensivelly used subversion for versioning.
17. I created my account at github, started 2 new open source projects and started learning git for versioning.
18. I recently acquired an android smartphone, so, I started using mobile internet and I read more using the kindle application.
19. Now I can see much more potential in the smart mobile devices, and as a result I care more about mobile software development.
20. I purchased about 15 ebooks and 5 printed books about software development.
Phew! Pretty awsome and fascinating year!
And there is more...
I met great people with great personalities, who communicated their invaluable experiences and their interestingly different point of view.
I made some friends, and I spent great time lunching and drinking beers.
At the personal level, I admit that the current and the next year will be the greatest years of my life because in a few months I will take the greatest responsibility of my life: being a father.
