2009 New Year's Resolutions
I was tagged by
@crisatunity here, so I'll do this. Hopefully The Curmudgeon isn't reading...
These are professional resolutions, not personal (I'm fat, so guess what #1 is on that list).
1. No brainer here.
Go the entire year without losing my job. If I leave voluntarily, that doesn't count. I'm just shooting for no firings, no layoffs and no furloughs.
2.
Become proficient in OBIEE. I've been given a second chance so to speak. Our DW guy decided now would be a good time to start his own consulting company and I am the lucky recipient of his job. Bonus: Datawarehousing is all the rage. OBIEE is a great tool to have in the tool box so I consider myself lucky on more than one front.
3.
Build a PL/SQL only test harness. I don't really know why, but I want to give this a go. I've used SQLUnit (and like it) and a little bit of utPLSQL, but I think there's a lot to learn here. Specifically, how to generate and run code. I've never really done that, except for a small DROP <OBJECT> script now and again.
4.
Contribute something tangible to the Oracle community. So I blog, cool. I've done an ApEx presentation, sweet. I would love to be able to contribute an application (a test harness perhaps?) or some sort of library. I don't know
exactly what it is yet...
Four is good enough for me this year. One will be the one I focus on most...I just hope it doesn't become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ;)
So, who shall I ask to join us?
Jake has already done like 33
end-of-the-year posts...I'm sure
one of them included some form of resolutions (
predictions actually, it qualifies though). Here we go:
1. Bradd Piontek || (
twitter,
blog)
2. Don Seiler || (
twitter,
blog)
I've paired those 2 guys together because I'm pretty sure they know each other. Watching them on Facebook and Twitter go at it keeps me laughing all day. For instance, tonight on Facebook Bradd posted a picture of him drinking something out of a brown paper bag and asking the community to guess what he was drinking. Mr. Seiler said something along the lines of "shame and disappointment?"
3. Dan McGhan || (twitter (
loser),
blog)
Dan was my "co"-presenter in September on ApEx. I made him do the whole thing, mostly because he heckled me (i.e. answered all the questions) in my first presentation.
*No drinking went on during the writing of this post.
Labels: 2009, funny, work
