New Decade, New Challenges and Opportunities
Happy New Decade!!! Its hard to believe I have reached my 4th decade here on Earth, but I have. The last decade was full of challenges, good times and many bad. New Years morning I received confirmation I have received the ASP.NET MVP award for the third straight year, which is a great thing! I feel honored to receive this award each and every year, not because I think I deserve it, but because it is an appreciation from Microsoft for a lot of unpaid work I and many others put into community and all around sharing. Generally MVPs do not participate merely to get the award, but do so because they have a passion for their technology and share it with others, both the good and the bad.
With that out of the way, I have plans for 2010 already in place. I really see three things being my primary focus this year, Mobile Web Sites, CSS and JQuery and how to build the best user experiences on the ASP.NET platform. I have a realistic plan I have drawn up over the Christmas break that I believe is achievable. I will start posting some blogs on these topics soon. I have already started with CSS and JQuery in 2009, but a focus on the mobile platforms will be new. Other things I foresee learning more about and using is ASP.NET MVC and WCF.
The main reason I see my plans as being achievable is due to the philosophy I am enjoying with my new company, Tellago. I started as a full-time employee in early November and have been positively surprised every week. Jesus Rodriguez, Don Demsak, Pablo Cibraro and the rest of the team have just been nothing but a pleasure to work with. Not only are they smart and good at what they do, they are really helping me learn things about SOA development I just never contemplated. But more than that they see value in my personal pursuit of the things I am good at and enjoy as well as their own. I cannot explain the night and day difference I am having with Tellago over what I had at my previous consulting firm (and I use that term lightly). Tellago is a rapidly growing company, with a clear plan for the next year and has the talent and collection of driven people to achieve our plans and probably more in 2010.