New Years Resolutions of a Software Developer

Nemu tulisan menarik dari blog ini , makanan bagus buat software developer seperti ane. Kalau ane biasanya ngganti resolusi dari 800x600 menjadi 1280x800 , soalnya resolusi 800x600 sudah jadul men, kayak orang tua saja hehe. Tapi bukan gitu ding, isinya kira-kira seperti berikut ini :

Practice and experiment with new languages and frameworks for at least a day a month.

Keeping up with the latest advancements in the software world can be challenging, especially when working at a fast paced start up. Nevertheless, taking time to investigate new and interesting languages and frameworks benefits not only your career, but may also provide streamlined solutions to problems at work. Having an array of languages and frameworks in your developer’s toolkit allows you to find the best solution to a wide range of problems. Career 2.0: Take Control of Your Life seems like it might be a good place to start investigating this resolution.

Improve my posture

There’s no better time than now to get rid of bad habits; and if there’s one bad habit that plagues me and many other developers, it’s bad posture. Slouching, poor monitor placement, amongst other things can cause serious injuries over time. There are many interesting solutions I have seen other developers taking advantage of that I would like to check out. Yoga ball chairs to prevent slouching and standing workspaces are both worth investigating. OSHA has a checklist for computer workspaces available so that you can analyze your own workspace for proper ergonomics.

Assess and finish miscellaneous side projects

Many developers have leftover side projects and experiments sitting around on their hard drives. I for one have many unfinished lines of code in a variety of languages waiting to have the dust cleared off. Even ‘finished’ projects can always use some additional polish. Going through these projects, organizing them, deleting ‘dead’ ones, and prioritizing those that need attention isn’t very appealing to me. But I know once I finish these non coding tasks, I will be much more willing to spend the necessary time to give myself a deadline and complete the projects. One of the nice things about completing these projects is in having real people using them and hearing how helpful they find them.

Be more active in software communities

I often find it difficult to make time to be active in development communities. Aside from reading miscellaneous blogs and news articles and occasionally commenting on reddit or hacker news; I don’t participate much in the community. In the upcoming year I hope to attend more developer centric talks and meetups as well as perhaps working up the courage to give a talk myself. Beside getting my name out there, this will give me a chance to learn about and become an expert in a new and interesting area.

Practice more complete documentation

I consider myself an adequate documenter, as I am sure most developers do. While helping to develop a tool to help developers document code I realized that there is always room for improvement. I intend on keeping documentation up to date, adding javadoc where appropriate, and creating useful diagrams for code I am working on. Every good developer should always be working to improve these skills since your code is worthless unless others can also understand it.

Sudahkah menyiapkan resolusi sebagai software developer tahun ini? sebenarnya ane sih sudah males jadi software developer, tapi ya realistis sajalah. Lha wong isone cuma kuwi. Kalo resolusi ane nggak beda jauh dengan yang ditulis diatas. Kira -kira seperti berikut

Practise and experiment with new games at least 20 day a month

Working is for life not life for working. Just enjoy your life and have fun anytime anywhere hahaha. But at least i have hired to a new company on new country. Of course i have to practice and experiment with new languages, not only languages on programming on my work but also new languages for daily conversation. Have new friends with new different culture that so nice.

Improve my posture

This is diffcult to improve my "posture tubuh" , i cannot taller anymore but can fatter hahaha
Assess and finish miscellaneous side project

My side project...???? hmmmn may be traveling arround the world, finish watch serial pilem or finish adventure game. In future hope i can get an opportunity to have some side project because that can practice me to becoming an enterpreneur that i had dreaming about since i was 'young' :D. Insya Allah

Be more active in software communities

I also often find it difficult to make time to be active in development communities. And also dificult to find what software developer communities are good. I just know the Largest Indonesian community as kaskus  hunting 'cendol' or just exploring 'lounge' may be there are some bb++ good quality threads hehe. There a good community for software development that i know from my friend and where i know this article that's dzone the fresh link for developer.

Practice more complete documentation

Sounds i not like it :D, i have read the article about furstated programmer and just (lol) about that. Good architectur of coding is not a mistake. It usefull for own software developer not for user. And users just want to know how the software can solve their problem :)