Happy New Year, Happy New Blog
2009 January 4
Happy New Year everyone!
So one of resolutions that I set for myself in the new year was to sort out daveverwer.com and start blogging again and here I am doing it. Who’da thunk it! I actually set myself several tech resolutions for this year and as an incentive to actually do them I thought I would list them out here:
- Sort out daveverwer.com. This site has been a disgrace for way too long! All it hosted was an old blog that makes me look like I am doing absolutely nothing new or interesting. Now, I can’t promise to do anything interesting but I want to replace it with something that won’t go out of date instantly, just a contact page and a little bit of information about me will do.
- Blog more regularly. The reason I need to do resolution #1 is that I don’t do this and while I can not promise to blog every week I really want to get back into it and I have a few ideas for posts that have come out of the development of Charades.
- Regular User Group meetings. I really want to make sure that NSManchester, GeekUp Chester and NWRUG have really regular monthly meetings this year. Will Jessop has been really helping with the NWRUG recently and there are some great meetings being planned for that already. I need to keep on top of NSManchester and GeekUp Chester though. One meeting per month, regular as clockwork!
- New version of Speakapedia. I am really excited about this, I am just about to seriously start work on the next version of Speakapedia which will hopefully take it from being a niche app focused around turning Wikipedia into podcasts to a much more generic Wikipedia client. This should be released by the spring with a bit of luck.
- New Shiny Development iPhone app. Developing Charades was a ton of fun and I really took to the platform and I am sure the year will bring lots of work developing iPhone apps for other people but I also want to make sure we release another Shiny Development iPhone app at some point this year.
Right, I am going to stop there because I want these things to be achievable! I will revisit this post at the end of the year but until then Happy New Year everyone.
Good to see the RSS feed springing back into life.
Are there talks at any of the GeekUp Chester meets? I’d be happy to give one on Arduinos or similar if you’re interested. I’ve been meaning to make it over for one of the meetings sometime anyway, but that would give me the extra push ;-)
Hey Adrian, we don’t have structured talks so much its more of just a social. I am sure people would be interested to talk about it though and it would be good to see you there!
Hmm, running out of excuses then, will try to make it along soon :-)
Hey, nice to see you blogging again! I’m trying to revive my own blog a little too, and like you post at least once a week. I really used to enjoy blogging but due to various things my enthusiasm waned for a year or so, but I’m rediscovering why I used to be so passionate about it now. So here’s wishing us both some happy blogging times. :)