Posts tagged ‘resolutions’
March MADness
Despite having my worst NCAA bracket in the history of me, I have to say that I still enjoyed the month of March. Here are a few of my bracket stats before I move on to discuss the status of my new year resolutions. Number of correctly picked final 4 teams: 1 (thanks, Duke). Number of correctly picked elite 8 teams: 3. Average position in the few pools that I joined: 12.3 out of 14. Shameful as those numbers are, I must admit that it was pretty fun watching the craziness that was this year’s NCAA tournament. More…
3 month update
So January, February, and March are now in the books. This is just a quick update to let you know where I stand on my various goals. Hopefully the Conficker worm won’t eat the internet before you have a chance to read this! More…
Progress on my goals
So far this year I have read Clean Code by Robert Martin (aka Uncle Bob) and Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen. It took me a couple of days into March to finish up GTD but I’ve more than made up for it since then. In just a few days, I’ve read nearly half of Test-Driven Development by Kent Beck. I’ve been blown away by how easy (and quick) a read it has been so far. It is really great learning material. More…
2009 Resolutions – after one month
Here is a quick update to let you know how my new year’s resolutions are coming.
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Books to read in 2009
As you may have seen in my New Year’s resolutions post, I am aiming to read 12 professional development books this year. In this post I’m going to give a list of books that I’m looking at. This may change throughout the year, but at least I have a starting point now. More…
2009 Resolutions
In keeping with the tradition of making New Year’s resolutions, here is a list of things I resolve to do in 2009. More…