It's already the last month of this year. Time to summarize and look forward into the future.
2010 is surely an important period of time during my life. This year I graduated from university and got a job and finally have a life of my own. Looking back, there is actually more that has happened than I realized.
So what happened during my 2010:
1. I graduated from Beihang University. It's 2006 that I came to Beijing and now four years have passed, it's surely a great tour.
2. Beginning in the later part of 2009, I have an 8-months internship at Sun Microsystems. Even though it's also the last few months of the Sun company, I've a great time there and I always missed the colleagues from the first company that I worked for. Thank you, Lingbo, Aaron, Edward, Edgar, Miao, Emily. And there are many more whom I can't all list here, but I always feel grateful for them when I think of the help that they gave me.
3. Then I got a job at Wind River. It began in May, so it's already seven months! In this position I have been learning more and more about Linux, and although I don't much coding, there are plenty of chances to get knowledge about what I want.
4. I managed to keep up with our Open Source Club. In the first half of the year, it became quite silent since people are busy graduating. But we got over it and things are much better now.
5. About my participation in open source projects, Foresight Linux is the only one in which I'm still active. I gradually dropped out of the others and stopped appearing in local open source meetings. That's kind of sad, which I hope will be changed in the future. On the other hand, I'm happy that we are keep sticking together around Foresight Linux, even it's still so small. 2009 was such a hard year for many people, but we are seeing better in 2010 and hopefully even better in 2011.
6. Until now I wrote 17 blogs during 2010 (20 in 2009 and 31 in 2008). You can't judge everything simply through numbers, but it still means something. I may still post one or two more articles, so the final number will be 20 and on average, it's 18 days per post.
7. The books I read in this year include Lord of the Rings, 1984, Lincoln the Unknown, More Joel on Software (in Chinese), 程序员羊皮卷 (a book on programmer career), Linux Application Development (not quite finished), Linux Programming by Example (in Chinese; not quite finished), Brain Rules (in progress), 程序员的自我修养 (similar topic as in Linkers and Loaders; in progress) and Apprenticeship Patterns (in progress). There might be some that I didn't write down but yeah, I should read more.
8. I have been memorizing English words for about two months, and it feels very good.
That's it. Year 2010.
What do I have in mine about the new year?
1. Write more blogs. I don't have goals but 20 to 30 should be good.
2. Read more books. Again I don't have goals, but I will read more on various topics. And since no one is giving me homework now, I will have more liberty as for what to read.
3. Participation in open source projects and meetings. I'll go to meetings and try to get into some projects. For now I have Foresight Linux and systemd in mind.
4. Keep active in Beihang Open Source Club. It feels great to be among students. Though I was a student not long ago, I'm not now. I'll help get our club going forward with my friends in the university.
Let's see how it goes.