{"id":201,"date":"2010-01-11T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andypalmer.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2010-01-11T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T16:00:48","slug":"2009-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andypalmer.com\/2010\/01\/2009-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, I chose 5 goals<\/a>. How did I manage with these?<\/p>\n

Write more (this includes blogging and code)<\/h2>\n

I definitely wrote more code this year, especially early on in the year when Antony<\/a> and I started Pair With Us<\/a>. I feel that my blogging is probably around the same amount as previous years. Ideally I’d like to set a target of at least one blog post a week.<\/p>\n

Present at one or more conferences<\/h2>\n

I presented at (what feels like) hundreds of conferences this year \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Antony<\/a> and I co-presented at Agile 2009<\/a> (Chicago), CITCON<\/a> (Paris), Agile Development Practices<\/a> (Orlando) and the SkillsMatter BDD Exchange<\/a> (London)<\/p>\n

We co-presented our tutorial at Oxford University<\/a> as part of their Agile Methods<\/a> Masters course<\/p>\n

I also presented a keynote session at the Software Tester Forum<\/a> (Zurich)<\/p>\n

Help out with the jNarrate open source project<\/h2>\n

As part of Pair With Us<\/a>, Antony<\/a> and I did a little bit of additional work on JNarrate<\/a>, although the majority of our work was on Narrative Fixture<\/a>, which is an extension of JNarrate<\/a> that wires it into FitNesse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Further my understanding around NLP<\/h2>\n

I read a lot of books around NLP and hypnosis in 2009. I also enrolled on a Hypnotherapy and NLP Practitioner diploma<\/a>. I am still learning loads on this and I am really enjoying it<\/p>\n

Have a look at learning LISP<\/h2>\n

Well, as Meatloaf once said, “Two out of three ain’t bad”. I didn’t have time to work through the SICP course. This will stay on the backlog as I am still quite interested to do this<\/p>\n

What else happened?<\/h1>\n

2009 brought some changes outside of the list.<\/p>\n