Coding In The Darkness » 2010 http://codinginthedarkness.com/blog Because coding in the daytime isn't difficult enough! Wed, 12 May 2010 18:36:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Real 2010 ToDo List! http://codinginthedarkness.com/blog/the-real-2010-todo-list/100/ http://codinginthedarkness.com/blog/the-real-2010-todo-list/100/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:43:34 +0000 BenScowen http://codinginthedarkness.com/blog/?p=100 It’s easy to get complacent in life, you make a minor achievement and rather than push on with other goals that you want to accomplish you get happy with where you are and become lazy about chasing those goals.

After some general searching around the web at other sites, people, blogs i decided that i never really achieved what i had set out to do with my own site and blog, which was to create a site that would give me a personal area on the web to own, play with and enjoy using and hopefully people would enjoy reading, viewing or whatever.

All my big plans to learn this, create that sort of hit the back burner, so…. Here is my 2010 ToDo list.
I have until the 23:59 – 31st of December 2010 to complete the following below.

  1. Redesign site
  2. Redesign Blog – My own template
  3. Learn basic PHP
  4. Learn objective C and create an iPhone app
  5. Add 2-3 sites to my portfolio

That’s it, if i can complete all of those tasks this year I will be very happy.

This decade will be the decade that i step up and become a complete finisher rather than a ideas man / team worker, kudos if you know where knows terms come from.

Lets hope I don’t make an idiot out of my self by Jan 1st 2011!

]]> http://codinginthedarkness.com/blog/the-real-2010-todo-list/100/feed/ 2 Another Year Begins, New Years Resolutions? http://codinginthedarkness.com/blog/another-year-begins-new-years-resolutions/89/ http://codinginthedarkness.com/blog/another-year-begins-new-years-resolutions/89/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:17:24 +0000 BenScowen http://codinginthedarkness.com/blog/?p=89 Wow 2010 is here already.

Looking back i don’t think any decade will be so jam packed with so many events in my life!

  • I finished School, College & Uni all in the last decade
  • Saw in the start to a new millennium
  • Had 2 part time jobs, 2 full time jobs and 1 graduate placement
  • Found my girlfriend, got engaged and had my first child
  • Had multiple ideas about what career I wanted to pursue from (laugh now) F1 Race driver, Computer repair guy, Games Programmer, Web Designer, Teacher, Online Marketer to name a modest few
  • Finally meet some really amazing people, made some great friends, shared some wonderful experiences and lost touch with too many faces, sadly

Looking back I don’t think I will ever cram so much into another 10 year period, I probably don’t want to either.

2009 also being the bad year it was for me I’m glad to see it gone, a year that I’ll remember due to losing my job with BT due to contractor cuts, the passing of some legendary people and the personal losses in my own family, especially my very dear Nan Win.

One thing i would like to do for the next year any way is at least once a week just write up what I have learned each week. We learn so much random stuff everyday it would be cool just to collect all that info and summarise in early 2011.

Well that’s it for my first post in the new decade, I’ll leave you now with one of my favourite photos,

It's very blurry but brings back some great memories

It's very blurry but brings back some great memories

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