{"id":511,"date":"2011-01-09T12:26:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T12:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/2011\/01\/time-to-wake-up-time-to\/"},"modified":"2011-01-10T12:16:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T12:16:29","slug":"time-to-wake-up-time-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Time to wake up, time to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been <strong>quiet <\/strong>on this blog lately. I&#8217;ve been quiet in 2010 as a whole! Only 5 blog posts during the year. That does not make it too active, I must say. As new year&#8217;s resolutions go, I plan to change that.<\/p>\n<p>Starting from this week, I set a goal to write a <strong>blog post per week<\/strong>. But wait, I have 4 blogs (click Home to see them). So that&#8217;s roughly 1 post a month. That should at least double the postings in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010 I <strong>changed jobs<\/strong>. I am now involved with pure Java development, which I love. \ud83d\ude42 But it&#8217;s also a nice change from using Java sparingly, mostly coding Velocity templates &#8212; not too say you cannot get\u00a0creative, but it&#8217;s a &#8220;contained&#8221; circle. I am now &#8220;free&#8221; and that should lead to more interesting ideas and topics.<\/p>\n<p>What am I up to <strong>lately<\/strong>? Deepening my Java threading knowledge, and Java in general. (I just got an idea for a separate post on this subject. :))<\/p>\n<p>What are my <strong>plans for 2011<\/strong>? I plan to deepen my Java skills. Java 7 is around the corner (finally!). I&#8217;d like to improve my Spring knowledge &#8212; if you don&#8217;t use it you lose it. \ud83d\ude42 Guava &#8212; a google collections library. I&#8217;d like to learn that as well. I mean, I&#8217;d like to find uses for it. I also want to learn bash scripting. Never learned it, but coming across it very often. Time to dig deeper. If time allows, I also want to learn Python. Seems like it should be in my toolbox. I can perhaps combine it with Google App Engine application. Sounds cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2011 <\/strong>should be a <strong>busy year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How <\/strong>am I doing it? How do I find the time? Early to bed, early to rise&#8230; said Benjamin Franklin. And that&#8217;s exactly how. I wake up at 5:15am everyday. And I try to collect at least 2 pomodoros (25 minute sessions, with 5 a minute break; check out ChromoDoro in Chrome) reading, practicing &#8212; doing dev-improvement stuff. That&#8217;s how. It works for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been quiet on this blog lately. I&#8217;ve been quiet in 2010 as a whole! Only 5 blog posts during the year. That does not make it too active, I must say. As new year&#8217;s resolutions go, I plan to change that. Starting from this week, I set a goal to write a blog post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[40,41,42],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-thoughts","tag-40","tag-41","tag-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}