G'day:
All of these things I am not investigating:
- PHP, despite it being a positive career move for me (strange, but true);
- Groovy & Grails despite Scott's brilliant presentation on the two;
- Angular.js despite Kurt's also brilliant presentation (Scott: you still win ;-), and John's equally good one at SotR;
- Ruby, and then Ruby on Rails despite starting some courses on them @ Code School, and actually paying fees to continue;
- oh, and Sinatra too, thanks to Matt piquing my interest;
- ColdFusion's REST implementation, as well as Adam Tuttle's Taffy and Chris Phillip's Relaxation, despite being quite interested in all three (the CF side of things as a baseline, and to see why people don't like it);
- ColdBox, even though I went to all the hassle of holding a survey which you lot helped me with to decide which framework to look at;
- FW/1 because in the process of doing so, I decided it sounded pretty good too;
- not really research, but I'm not finishing my ColdFusion bug-update notification project;
- Ember.js even though Paul's presentation at SotR made it look pretty bloody good, and something perhaps to focus on instead of Angular (if I have time for only one);
- ColdFusion 10's web sockets, despite promising someone I would, and starting some investigation into them;
- ColdFusion 10's new scheduler, even though it looks kinda cool (as far as schedulers can ;-);
- ColdFusion 10's EHCache integration even though it looks execellent too (thanks to Rob's presentation on it);
- submitting a fix for a bug in MXUnit I promised Marc Esher about six months ago, because I haven't got around to writing unit tests for it (and, come on, I can't submit a fix for MXUnit without unit testing it!);
- anything to do with mobile development. No, I'm not doing that either;
- node.js even though Sean recommended it to me as a good career-building option;
- oh, there's a bunch of other stuff too.
Why not? Because - f*** me - I don't know where to start! There's so much bloody interesting technology around and only about 18 hours in the day (eating, sleeping). Plus my blimin' life keeps getting in the road (case in point: I type this from the Wetherspoons @ LHR... the one at which I am beginning to recognise the staff, and they me...).
This article exists almost entirely to guilt-trip myself into doing something about all this. I've even got about a dozen blog articles underway on all this stuff. That weighs heavy too.
Argh!
Right. That feels better.
Have a good weekend.
--
Adam
