Before January slips away, I thought it might be a good idea to lay down some resolutions for the new year, all in the spirit of being a better person.
Personal goals:
- Start drinking heavily. No explanation necessary.
- Finally become a chain smoker (every time I start I invariably end up quitting all over again, but this year I know I'll succeed because I've been building up addiction gradually with The Patch).
- Outfit a van with a 400-gallon fuel tank, bullet-proof glass, reinforced steel walls, solid rubber tires, and paint an obscene gesture on the roof, and then lead authorities on a high-speed cross-country chase broadcast live on CNN, with my van no doubt blurred out so the kids won't see the obscene gesture painted on top, and then continually swerve erratically so the guy CNN hired to blur out my van curses me because he's forced to work extra hard to make sure his blur stays on top of my constantly moving gesture. That CNN guy won't like me in 2008.
- Get a backup friend, just in case my current only friend abandons me in midst of all the drinking, smoking, and criminal activities planned for 2008.
- Get laid, but hopefully not while in jail. Admittedly, this one is on the long-term list, but it could happen this year. You never know.
- Record at least one more episode of Mondays.
On the business side of things, professional goals include the following:
- Ship at least 200 refactorings by the end of 2008.
- Improve documentation for CodeRush, Refactor! Pro, and the DXCore.
- Add JavaScript and F# as languages having first-class support in both CodeRush and Refactor! Pro.
- Continue to improve CodeRush's ability to detect code smells/issues with your code.
- Release a few surprise killer dev tool features that rock your world.
The gauntlet has been laid.