Personal Development - Things To Do
Written on February 6, 2009 – 10:32 pm | by David Windell
These day’s I’m so busy building the business and spending time with my lovely wife, I never seem to get time to do all of the things I really want to do. I’m sure most people that work in Development (specifically web based) there’s always that extra language you want to learn, or that side project you want to work on to push your skills just a bit further.
I often wonder what I’m missing, what the latest hype I haven’t heard about is. Only in the last year i’ve discovered how much time I was wasting not writing code using the MVC model and I somehow missed all the hype surround frameworks until recently. Of course it’s essential to stay sharp and up to date with the tools used on a daily basis but at the same time its important to take time to have fun and learn something new (hard to believe learning can be fun right!).
When I was writing the “tag line” for this blog, I was concious of putting “Life” first before the rest (business & programming), that includes spending time with God, Andrea, and socialising more with my friends. However, it’s also really important to spend time on yourself and the way I like to do that is by building my skills which is something I really enjoy doing.
After seeing a couple of other people do the same on their blogs, i’ve been inspired to create a list of those projects and other things that I’ll coin as “Personal Development” here. I’m sure I’ll update this list as time goes on as I have new goals, ideas and hopefully be able to take a few off the list when they come into fruition and maybe even make it into my toolset. So in randomish order;
- Start blogging more often
- Learn symfony using the Jobeet tutorial
- Learn python (using Django framework)
- Spend more time with JQuery/ JS and JSON
- Write a simple web service (with SOAP)
- Learn to play acoustic guitar
- Read about investment and start doing it
Well, that should be enough to keep me busy for a while 
time to get to work!