One year ago, at the start of 2012, I defined some expectations I had for 2012. Now, one year later, we are already celebrating the start of 2013. An ideal time to review my previous expectations and set my expectations for the new upcoming year.

My expectations for 2012 were:

1. A decent mouse
   Got myself a decent Microsoft and Steelseries gaming mouse. The gaming mouse won the battle!
2. A decent bookshelf and some hardcover books to fill it. Just so I can touch and love them
   I currently have 4 hardcover books on my precious bookshelf, which I have all consumed.
3. Get the Windows Communication Foundation Communication Developer certification
   Done exam january 2012
4. Get the Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4
   Done exam february 2012
5. Get better at c# like some of its aspects like asynchrony, LINQ, lambda’s and general use
   Done a good job here, but still a work in progress, most likely for the rest of my life…
6. Write at least 50 blog posts for 2012
   Wrote 37 blog posts, of which most where at january and february. Been a bit slacking on this point ever since …
7. Read at least 12 IT-related books
   Managed to read about 8 IT-related books in 2012, of which the last 4 made the bookshelf
8. Become rich
   I wish …

And of course the expectations for 2013:

1. Get my bookshelf up to at least 10 hardcover IT-related books.
2. Read at least 5 IT-related books
3. Obtain 3 of the new Microsoft certifications
4. Write 5 blog articles in 2013, not counting book reviews
5. Start a personal development project for fun. Any ideas are welcome!
6. Dig deeper into the following topics: Unit Testing, Test-Driven Development, Design patterns, Scrum, Extreme Programming and Security
7. Play around with another language
8. Learn and use more advanced keybindings

What are your goals and expectations ?
And of course happy new year to all:

Cheers,
Robbin

One of my expectations and improvements for 2012 was getting myself an SSD for speeding up my enterprise laptop. The decision ended up being an Intel SSD 510 series SSD, which apparently is compatible with our enterprise laptop and is a reliable disk.

The result:

Hopefully it’s giving me as much pleasure as the cost of the SSD was!

Robbin

Improving my infrastructure was one of my goals for 2012. Having some more comfort spending so much time on my desk and computer, would be a good investment.

Apparently my parents agree with it, as they did their part in improving my infrastructure.
They found a developer must have:

Guess I won’t be having cold feet anytime soon!

Robbin