Been Quiet 'round these Parts
Point of fact it's been far from quiet for me, but I haven't blogged much to support that theory. So here's a quickie of what's been going on in my life.
To start, there's a big surprise, one that I care not give details on (so if you're one of the chosen to know what it is, don't blurt it out in the comments, it's a surprise to everyone else). And no, I, nor anyone I associate myself with in a way that would suggest otherwise, am not pregnant.
I've been with Telligent now for 4 or 5 months now and have loved every minute of it. A few weeks we had the Community Server Developer's Conference - very good time where I got to meet quite a few CS developers from around the world - even learned a few things. I think I'm even, slowly, finding my own little niche within the company. At least, I hope so.
I'm coming up on my one year mark as a member of the Rotary Club of Park Cities. In that time I have been quite active by:
- being webmaster for the Park Cities Rotary Golf website (we raised approximately $45k for The Phoenix Project).
- chairing the A/V committee, committed to raising the value of each weekly luncheon.
- joining the New Membership committee.
- vice-chairing the Ethics committee (this committee is particularly active in February).
- supported the grant application for One Laptop Per Child (check it out, very cool).
It's very cool to be the youngest Rotarian I know - Rotary has been such a HUGE part of my life, from pulling the drink wagon at my parents' home club's annual Antique Show to flying to Jeremy, Haiti for 10 days as a 17 year old to assist dentists at a Rotary sponsored health clinic with the Haitian Health Foundation - it's just nice to be a part of it now on my own accord, not just as a son of Rotarians.
The other of my major time expenditures is related to the podcast - it's Hockey season. The Stars aren't doing as well as we would like to see, but they're still in it for the race: 16 games in and it certainly could be worse! The podcast is great, we're 9 episodes into our second season and we've already gotten to the point where we don't need to edit the shows - we've even tried live recording (it helps to have portable recording equipment). Not only that but the Fanatics have expanded to having a not-so-regular video cast. We've recorded two episodes, though one of them keeps getting blocked for "rights infringement" - something we'll have to work on going forward.
Lastly, I found a pet project to keep me excited about programming on a personal level. I am a contributing developer on a new open source project called LiteWiki. It's a very simple wiki application implemented using ASP.NET and I've already learned a ton and been able to contribute a good amount. I'm very excited about this project, expect to see more and more about it as time goes on.
Suffice to say, the past month has been extremely busy - thankfully I learned very early on that in order to continue to thrive in such a busy environment you need to enjoy everything you do.
And, without getting overly mushy, thanks to everyone who keeps pushing me to do better - I don't know if I say it enough, but really, Thank You.