It is that time of year again, time to reflect on the year that has passed and look forward to the year ahead. As with many years 2024 has been a mixed bag, some good stuff, and some not so good stuff. I did not make any goals at the start of 2024, but I am going to fix that for 2025. Goals for 2025 Blog Posts More...
Recently I have been reading the first few chapters of Patrick Stewart’s Memoir, Making It So: A Memoir . In it he tells the story of his early life. I find it fascinating that very early on it is quite clear he had a life goal. Become the best actor Patrick Stewart can be. Yes, there are other things in his life but...
As 2022 draws to a close its time to do my annual look back at what happened. I am going to talk a bit about my personal life as well as tech things, so if that is not your bag feel free to skip this post and read my more technical articles. January - I started the year teaching my son to code . February - I did some...
Lets have a look at what my goals were for 2021. I had eight of them, lets look at them one by one. Azure certification. In May of this year I sat and passed the Azure Fundamentals exam. I am calling this goal as achieved. Mentoring. I didn’t do anything about working with others or mentoring, so not sure I achieved...
We are over halfway through 2021, let’s have a quick look at some things I have done this year: Deployed a new version of the Pre Qualification questionnaire website for my employers Passed Azure Fundamentals Exam Mongo DB Atlas - experimented with using it for auditing my application SonarCloud - tried to improve the...
I didn’t make any goals for 2020, or if I did, I didn’t officially announce them. 2020 has been a hard year for all of us, 2021 is going to be better. Here are a few ideas for my goals for the year ahead. Azure certification Mentoring F# Cosmos db/Mongo db Give a talk Mandlebrot Generator Pwned Pass Mobile App More...
This is my annual lets make some goals for the new year blog post. So in no particular order. Improve House I can’t outdo last years goal of buying a house but I can continue to make efforts to improve it. I was going to put something about decorating or doing something to our bedrooms, however today I spotted a hole...
As 2018 starts to draw to a close let’s look at some of the highlights from the past year. New Home - I started 2018 with the goal of buying my own home and I managed it. At the end of October I actually moved in but it was months of looking at houses, speaking to estate agents, saving, packing and unpacking. There is...
Remember me? I used to write blog posts but somehow life got in the way. So much has happened this year, lets have a look at my goals for 2018 and see how far we have got with them. Buy a house My first goal for 2018 was to buy a house. Well so much progress has been made with this goal. We looked at a few houses, and...
For a while I have been mentoring a friend and I thought I might share some top tips I have implemented in my career so far. Hard Work At school I was told: “Only in the dictionary does Success come before Work“. Yes it is a bit of a corny saying however it has stuck in my head and it’s true. If you want to get...