Today I started working on my Divine Theme for WordPress. This theme is for members of my fraternity due to the number of request for a chapter website. I’m honestly tired of doing Fraternity Sites, it just gets boring after a while. I originally started this or had the idea for this a year ago but time wasn’t on my side with school, a busy freelance schedule and eventually getting a 9-5 development job. But – after starting and stopping and restarting and re-stopping I’ve decided to restart this project and create an actual schedule and time-line that will ensure project completion. I think 85% of the time my projects don’t get completed due to my lack of organization. So, here I am again and this time I will complete this task I have set for myself. Stay tuned, to stay posted.
Half Way
With January being half way complete, I wanted to give you guys an update with my goals for 2012. For my goal of becoming a better programmer, I decided to begin with mastering JavaScript. I felt that this is relevant to complete the holy trinity of front-end web development. For years I have been putting off actually mastering JavaScript so I really will be working hard to learn as much as I can and master it. I have given my self three to six months to go through the regiment.
The Regiment
CodeAcademy.com- AppendTo.com Lessons
- Read Eloquent JavaScript
- Read Getting Good w/ JavaScript
- Learn the in’s and out’s of FireBug
- Read an in depth JS Book (Any Suggestions?)
- Project – Task Management System
- Learn JQuery – Lynda.com, Net Tut’s, etc…
After this I will continue diving in to PHP and other server side languages. Besides learning, I have been reading more but the writing I still need work on. Other than this I feel like things are moving very slow and have already ran out of my new years energy supply… I just need to stay motivated
New site…well kind of
One of the first things I want to complete this year is my site. I can’t believe I went a full year without updating this thing. So to get the ball rolling and to start small I decided to set up WordPress, upload the Toolbox theme and start blogging. For the next couple of weeks I will be designing this site… live. Which sounds like a bad idea when I think about it but I really don’t care. I plan on taking a minimalistic approach but starting bare and only adding whats needed. Stay tuned.
Onward.
If I had to sum up 2011 in one word it would be…amazing. In one years time I’ve complete 75% of my graduate studies at Towson University, earned a wonderful job at idFive, learned so many new things and I have met some of the most amazing people with amazing stories. I could go on about the past year but I would find it useless. I want to get started on this year.
Goals for 2012
- Becoming a Zen Master.
- Become a better programmer.
- Become more involved in the web design community.
- Read and write more.
- Live a healthier lifestyle (workout, better eating habits, etcetera.)
- Start a business.
- Enjoy life.
I’m really excited of this upcoming year because one of the things I’ve learned how to do this past year is doing. The one thing that I had admit is that I’m a talker and not a doer and for change to come I must accept the current situation and from there improve. To contradict an earlier statement, there are many things that I didn’t get accomplished in 2011. I wanted to start creating WordPress themes to sell and I didn’t. I wanted to start writing more and I didn’t. I wanted to redesign my website and I didn’t. I… could go on all day on the many things that I didn’t do. The point is that this kind of bothered me. So my major goal for 2012 is to be a doer and actually do the things I say I’m going to do.
Onward.