In my last blog of the year 2010, I thought (like many others) of doing a short recap of this year. Like all previous years in my career, I hadn’t really any special goals to be achieved in 2010; just the long-term ones mentioned in my personal development plan. I like to embrace each day as it comes, so a new year generally doesn’t start with a resolution list.
Unlike most years in my career before, this one saw me doing 4 different assignments. When I say ‘different’, I really mean it. I started the year continuing to create a mortgages application (which had been ‘on’ for almost 2 years already). After that I dirtied my hands in the well buzzed ‘cloud’ domain. From there on I moved towards software maintenance and lastly created a batch application for pensions; 2010 buzz words being ‘mortgages’, ‘cloud’, ‘maintenance’ and ‘pensions’. Also for the first time, Java wasn’t the common factor. Java wasn’t in the cloud then! And software maintenance is a totally different ball-game.
There was one other cool thing brought about by this year. I got the opportunity to lead the Java expert group at my company. It was something new, something I hadn’t done before, something very special (and still is). I enjoyed organizing all the events, summarizing them in our WIKI, networking with the group, and other stuff that came with this role. This role was my highlight of 2010.
And unlike all other years that passed by, I do have resolutions for 2011. Resolutions for the Java Expert Group.
To the year that was. Cheers!
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