2010, a year in review

Dec 25 2010

Well it's about that time of the year, the time when you look back at the year that was... and what a year 2010 has been.

Last year I said that 2009 was my biggest year professionally, but in reality 2010 trumped it well and truly.

2010, the year of the conference

In 2010 I set a new goal for myself and that was to become more of a figure in the Australian development community, and I started this off with a dive into the conference circuit.

I...

Kicked off with DDD Melbourne where I presented a Beginning Umbraco session
I then headed back to Melbourne for Remix (which I just attended :P)
Flew to Denmark for CodeGarden 10 to speak about unit testing
Returned to Sydney to help organize (and speak at) the first DDD Sydney conference
Spoke about Umbraco in the CMS Smackdown for SBTUG
Won Amped and went to Tokyo for Web Directions East
Spoke about open source content management at CodeCamp OZ
Talked about Open Conference Protocol at the Sydney Architecture User Group
And wrapped up the year with a lightning talk at SydJs on JavaScript frameworks.

Phew, busy conference set, wonder if I can top that next year :P.

Another year, another job

Last year I was excited about taking a new job with TheFARM Digital and getting to work with Shannon so we could really go crazy with Umbraco development. Well there was some sadness when I announced that I was to be leaving TheFARM to join Readify.

Open Source work

I spent a lot of time this year working on Open Source projects. Obviously Umbraco has featured highly in this area, with version 5 underway (and helping with the team migrate to Mercurial) a lot of my time was devoted there.

But I've also worked on a few other smaller projects: