Happy New Years! A look back & a look ahead…

Posted by Ryan Gordon on January 1, 2009 under General, Life, MyBB, School | Read the First Comment

Has it been quite a year! I’ve extended the levees on the boundary of my knowledge and filled even further the never ceasing quicksand trap of friends and family. And with that in mind:

A look back on my own life:

• I got my drivers permit
• I worked for ActiveVideo Networks during the summer as an Intern under SQA/Development
• MyBB 1.4 was released, receiving a huge upgrade to MyBB 1.2. We:
  • went through a few staff reorganizations
  • had a professional security audit
  • went Open Source, GNU/GPL
  • launched our official MyBulletinBoard blog
  • created a Software Quality Assurance group for MyBB
  • KDE launched MyBB as their official forum software
  • I’m now officially Lead Developer at MyBB

A birds-eye look back at 2008:

• Main Street continued to drag down hill
• Wall Street plummeted, catching up to main street
• A historical presidential election took place in the United States of America
• Palin’s daughter, Bristol Palin, 17, gave birth to a baby boy Dec. 28 (random… I know)

My want-to-be look forward for my own life in ‘09:

• Applying to colleges into the computer science field
• Learning other languages. My main goals are: Python, Java, C++, and Robotic-type language
• Continue a technological oriented summer or more permament, part-time job
• Get out and play soccer or job more often. Perhaps join the school team.
• Install gentoo, debian, and fedora onto my test dev server to learn how to do it
• MyBB 1.6
  • Is being mapped out in the planning stage and
  • already mapped-out features are being implemented
• MyBB 2.0 is in the planning stages
  • It will be ****ing awesome (just thought I’d say that from the get-go)
  • It will be sexy, It will be slender, It will be extensible, It will be easy to use, It will be secure, It will be fast, It will be tested
  • It will be our chance to take everything we’ve learned and wrap it all up into one amazing product

My want-to-be birds-eye look ahead for ‘09:

• See the way-past-due demise of Internet Explorer 6. At least, enough that we developers don’t have to support it any longer
• See IE8 come out as a competent, standard-compliant browser that will truly bring an end to the countless painful hours of dodgy workarounds
• See the release of 32 nanometer chips
• See Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose go national with their own beer reviewing, liver trashing, funny as funny can be news TV show
• Turn around the United State’s economical fiasco into a more stable environment
• See the bullet train begin construction in California
• See alternative and renewable energy sources take precedence over other means of producing energy
• Dissolve and Resolve major conflicts around the world

And with all of that in mind, have a happy new year, and I look forward to ‘09 and to what it will bring.