I didn’t make any goals for 2020, or if I did, I didn’t officially announce them. 2020 has been a hard year for all of us, 2021 is going to be better.
Here are a few ideas for my goals for the year ahead.
- Azure certification
- Mentoring
- F#
- Cosmos db/Mongo db
- Give a talk
- Mandlebrot Generator
- Pwned Pass Mobile App
- More time for me
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I want to get a certificate to show how much I know. The obvious area for this is Azure. I spend a lot of time playing with Azure, building and deploying to the platform I should be able to get certified in this area. I actually had an exam booked in 2020 but it was an in-person exam so was cancelled when Covid hit. I plan to sit the foundation exam in the first quarter of 2021 and I will take it from there.
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I have had a few times recently where I have been reminded that I don’t have much experience working with others. Mostly because I work in a one-man development team so there are limited opportunities in the workplace. I have a few ideas to change this, but this is one of my top priorities for 2021.
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& 4) My experience is very Microsoft and C# so I want to spend some time exploring and learning tech that is adjacent to this. A functional language like F# sounds like a good compliment to my existing skills and my data skills are also very SQL server so some document database skills would be a good place to spend some time.
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Doing a talk has been on my list for years. I am terrified of doing one and with everything online now I don’t know if that makes things easier or harder. I don’t think 2021 is going to be the year for this but maybe I will take baby steps towards this goal.
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Twitter recently reminded me about watching a Mandlebrot generate one pixel at a time in the 1980s. I would love to explore the code used to generate them and how fast they currently are to produce.
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My Google play store Xamarin forms app that uses the HIBP API has less than 100 users and I am considering closing it down, especially as I pay a monthly fee for API keys. I haven’t really decided what to do, maybe I will spend some time improving it, maybe I will close it down, maybe I will build something else.
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For many people 2020 has been a hard year, I am one of those
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