It's the end of the decade and as always it's the perfect time to reflect upon my own life and determine how things are "really" going as well as committing to make the necessary course corrections.

As such as I've spent of lot of time lately contemplating to see if deep down I'm actually happy with the direction that my life and career are heading. Unfortunately for me - I'm not sure that they are.

That's not to say that the last year has been a failure. There have been quite a number of positive changes that I've made in the last year. I’ve received a fair share of extremely positive feedback and recognition both professionally and personally this year. I was able to successfully end some professional and personal relationships that were draining me.  I was able to take the family on another vacation enjoying both Disney World and our first cruise together. I’ve learned that I really like mixed drinks with Patron in them. I was also able to find and begin work on learning a new hobby (but more on that in some future post).

Now I'm not a big believer in "New Years Resolutions", preferring instead to focus on goals (1 year, 5 year, etc), but when life itself needs some radical changes it requires going beyond just simple goal setting. As such - I present below (for accountability) some of the ideals and goals for the next year that I will be using to make a life course correction.

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Well it's been a crazy couple of months for me since I first started the work of moving everything to the new blog. I've actually been promoted twice(!) at my employer in that short period of time. First I was promoted to the position of Architect. Then a few weeks ago, we broke up our engineering team into several streams and I was put in charge of the Core Product Development team - which basically means that I get to work solely on all the cool stuff. All of this happens during really interesting times for our little startup as we're working on some really exciting stuff and with some great companies.

The downfall to all of that is that this poor little blog has been neglected right out of the gate.

But I'm back now and ready to start posting about some of the trials, tribulations and hard-earned lessons that I've experienced as a web developer. I've just killed the old blog and initiated a re-direct for the old domain name to point to here. This week I'll be posting some of my personal philosophies about programming as well as some of my frustrations of what I have to deal with when interviewing potential Rails developers to join my team.

It's about to get fun (finally!)

Well crap - I was hoping to hold off on letting any links out to this site until after I had finished touching up all the CSS and optimizing the layout of things a bit more. 

But the Ruby Learning blog just listed my old blog site this morning in their post of the 50+ Ruby-related blogs to read. So guess I need to let the cat out of the bag a little prematurely with the new blog. 

Right now - I'm researching client-side solutions for code highlighting so I can post up a couple simple tutorials and I already have a couple drafts started for some opinion pieces on how to become a better developer. So please add me to your RSS feeds or keep checking back as some real content should start flowing here in the near future.

Eldon