Browsing articles from "January, 2012"
Jan
20
2012

Some Personal Tech Goals for 2012

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Building on last year’s effort, I’ve been spending some time with the Pragmatic Thinking and Learning book to start thinking about my knowledge portfolio for the year ahead. I’m still not entirely clear on the fine print, but there are some themes that are really starting to run in my thinking, so I figure I should get accountable and blog it up. Here’s my stab at the tech areas I’m interested in getting across in [...]

Jan
5
2012

Reviewing Personal Tech Goals for 2011

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I went through a tech goal-setting process last year, and found it pretty help, so I’m lining up for another Tech Goals plan in 2012. I commend the process to you! First let’s review last year’s list: JavaScript – Yup! I can certainly tick this one off. Did several pieces of hardcore JavaScript work for clients (some without framework support), learned enough QUnit to be dangerous, and even did a bit of Backbone.js. Android/HTML5/CSS3 – [...]

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