It’s about that time again but I’m a bit delayed in getting it done, it’s time for a year in review!
Backing up from the busy year that was 2011 I…
- Kept my MVP and got to go to the MVP summit in Seattle
- Went to the first Codemania in NZ to hang out with some of the guys in the NZ dev community
- Had first Pluralsight course on JavaScript design patterns was published
- Played the hipster dev for my DDD Melbourne talk this year, taking about developing everything in the browser, which was based off a similar talk from Web Directions What Do You Know
- Released my first Windows 8 application which needs some serious TLC, damn lack of free time :(
- Made a surprise appearance at CodeGarden 12, helped killed Umbraco 5, pointed out that MVC has always been possible with Umbraco and once again encouraged people to get involved in Umbraco which has been going really well since then
- Stepped out of my comfort zone and did some XAML but I’m still unconvinced by it
- Presented at Teched again, this time on Win8 app dev with HTML and JavaScript where I was kind of just ranting :P
- Dived into IndexedDB and released a wrapper library called db.js to deal with some of the shitty API points
- Played with TypeScript, the Microsoft answer to “the JavaScript problem”. My blog about using source maps for TypeScript was by far my most popular post
- Got engaged and bought a house (cuz you know, sometimes I get off the computer…)
It’s been a bit quieter than in the past few years, but a much more maintainable a pace I think. Now to prepare for 2013…