Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

A Recap

written on January 01, 2011

I have been reading a bunch of people's recaps of 2010. I find that a wonderful idea because it turns out that after a year you end up doing a lot and don't appreciate it enough. And it turns out, 2010 was an amazing year. This is my list of Open Source or programming related activities of 2010:

January- Decided to learn game development. This didn't go too well for a while though. I was kinda worn out of Python web development after four years and wanted to do something new.

April- Made an April's fool joke web framework with a screencast that was downloaded over 15.000 times. Some people actually took it serious :)

May- Attended DjangoCon in Berlin and gave my first English talk ever. It didn't go as well as it could have been but I was nervous as fuck, especially because I was the first talk after the keynote.

June- Started looking for a Job over the summer holidays and ended up working with the guys from Lincoln Loop for a larger Django project.

July- Attended EuroPython

August- Finally diving into 3D engine development. The books I bought a few months back finally pay off and a painful dive into mathematics starts.

September- Broke my macbook, needed replacement — expensive month.

October- Held a talk at Pycon PL about new Python idioms. Had the chance to talk to finally meet Maciej Fijalkowski in person and a whole bunch of interesting guys.

November- Got invited to ORD Camp 2011. Feeling honored, but unfortunately will not be able to attend :(

December- I finally have something that looks rougly like a 3D voxel engine. Still far from a game, but a start and with that project I learned a whole lot that year.

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