Summary of the year 2007

2007 seems a rather quiet year in my career (at least blogging-wise). But it was quiet in a good way :)

It has been 1.5 years since I started working on Validata product and it continues to be mentally stimulating and fun. The diverse technologies in the project and the interesting problems keep me excited about my job. My company has joined a few projects in the Balkans, so the week before Christmas, I had my first business trip, ever. I went for Romania and next week I am going again.

I also have started a pet project that requires learning new stuff like ActiveRecord, Monorail, MySql, JQuery and other good stuff. I really hope to kick it off to a good start, while I am still on vacation. The more challenging thing is to make it a habit to have progress each day, no matter how little it is. I was somewhat unpleasantly surprised when I realized that it has been almost 3 months of inactivity from my last refining of the project idea. But now the project has stable foundations, there are no pending major technology decisions, so the work might just flow...

I have been keeping up with the new .NET stuff mostly from reading my daily doze of weblogs. I also attended a great seminar in Sofia in October, so the saw is still being sharpened :)

I have continued to refine my toolbox and programming techniques. I find that it's worth the temporary discomfort in learning how to use a new tool or technique.

I have a good feeling about the new year. And I will try to make this a self-fulfilling prophecy :)

Have a great new year!