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What I did on 2005
Seems that there is a tendency to summarize all sorts of things at the end of the year, and this is one place that a Blog really help. Here is my end of year summary:
- I found Boo (And the light, too)
- I published my first OSS project, NHibernate Query Analyzer
- Got scared shitless
- Learned to use Subversion
- I found and posted a lot of my fanfic for the Wheel of Time
- Answered a nice quiz from Hanselman
- Found the prefect gift for a girl I know.
- Got into testing UI
- Went head on against a bus, and won
- Gave up on testing UI
- Thought about Free Software Support
- Got myself a fresh install of Windows
- Search for Peace, didn't find it
- Got into trouble with NMock
- I read a lot of books
- Read even more books
- Caught Microsoft cleaning up Windows - And I've the proof!
- I got into trouble because of an idiot with a desire for cola.
- Started to play with Dynamic Proxy, and broke .Net
- Started to work on Rhino Mocks
- I released Rhino Mocks
- Read my referrals, threw up, wrote a blog post about it
- Surprised by my code, in a good way
- Got excited because a patch of mine was accepted in an OSS project
- Got some exercise
- "Enjoy" being on Road 6 for 6 hours
- Started digging MonoRail
- Wrote Brail, a Boo ViewEngine for MonoRail
- I got out of the army! Talk about significant changes.
- Did some work on extentions for Boo
- I released a new version of NQA, this time with a logo
- Had fun writing a boo view for reflector
- Found the best utility for multi monitors users
- Kept on improving Rhino Mocks
- Got myself an iRiver
- Joined the Castle Team
- Discovered Mondays
- Got so excited with C# 3.0 that I stayed up until 2 AM reading the spec - Damn, but I'm a geek.
- I got a job (hm, no blog entry for that, strange...)
- Go angry with VS.Net and TDD - Won't be the last time, I bet
- Wrote NHibernate.Generics so I could work with a great ORM on .Net 2.0
- Read Knife Of Dreams
- Had some fun using the new features on C# 2.0
- Even more fun with static reflection
- Wrote my first trigger - I wrote a lot more SQL since then
- Fought against VS.Net, lost
- Didn't have fun with ASP.Net & View State
- Ranting on ASP.Net
- Still losing to ASP.Net
- Got loads more RAM
- Talked a bit about my project
- Was at the launch
- Released a project with some functionality that I'm always using
- Started to really dig SQL
- Verified mutex correctness using mocks
- Got older
I also posted 822 posts this year, which average to ~70 posts a month, Wow!
Looking back at the last year, so much has happened that I didn't write about in the blog. Part of it is classified, part of it is personal, but it was good year.
"There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole." -- Army Sergant
"Hospital: Where they wake you up to give you a sleeping pill." -- Definate Facts
"Diagnostics are the programs that run when nothing else will." -- Tech Support Slogan
"Money couldnt buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy." -- Spike Milligan
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