The aim is to, at the least, achieve all these goals. The time allocated is
from December 2012 to December 2013.
- Read (and hopefully Review) 12 Tech books
- Building and Testing with Gradle - Short Review
- Puppet Types and Providers - Short Review
- Resilience and Reliability on AWS - book review
- Cisco Routers for the Desperate (2nd edition)
- The Phoenix Project
- Effective monitoring and alerting
- Beginning Puppet
- Cloud Architecture Patterns
- Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization
- Heroku: Up and Running
- Extreme Programming Adventures in C#
- Micro-ISV (Vision to reality)
- An Introduction to Programming in Go
- Pro Puppet 2nd Edition
Write 50 blog posts. Failed. Managed 29. Which is very poor.
Write 40 Puppet Cookbook Recipes. Failed.
- Attain two industry certificates
- VCA-DCV
- CompTIA Cloud+
- Attend two conferences
- FOSDEM 2013
- PuppetCamp Ghent 2013
- Devops Days - London
- Devops Days - Mountain View
- Velocity US - 2013
- Devops Days - London - November
- Attend four user events
- London Devops - Feb 2013
- Cloud Camp London - SDN - April 2013
- Create two new github projects
- Puppet ipv4_octet function
- Extended Attributes on Puppet file resources
- Show Source attributes on Puppet file resources
- Puppet MySQL Device
- puppet-multitemplate
- puppet-ip_in_range
- puppet-liquidtemplates
And that was December 2012 to December 2013.