There's been a few changes going on in my life lately. Firstly, let's get the biggest one out of the way: I've resigned from my current position at Axcess Consulting. It's all very amicable, and I hope to still help out in some small way in the future.

The next big thing is, I've stopped travelling (as a consequence of the previous big thing). This means I'll have more time on my hands and will hopefully be able to get my teeth into some personal projects for the first time in a long time.

The final big thing is, our house extension is about three quarters of the way done. We've basically added another half a house to the back of our existing house. The planning and management of this has taken up a considerable portion of my time.

So where to from here?

Well, as I write this, I've just finished upgrading my ReSharper to 4.1. I recently added dotTrace 3.1 to that mix. Along with that, NHibernate 2.0 went GA, and I'm finally starting to understand some of the concepts in Eric Evans' DDD book.

Some of the things I'm going to try to achieve in the next few weeks are:

  • Upgrade my blog software from Comunity Server to BlogEngine.NET;
  • Redesign my website to be a bit more about me, with the blog as a conversation piece, not the whole site;
  • Start writing more development related articles;
  • Finally move all my share holdings under the one sponsor; (This one has been going on for two years now!!!!!)
  • Spend considerably more time with my family;
  • Find a job I want to do, instead of one I feel I have to do;
  • Give my entire life a bit of a shake up. A change is as good as a holiday, they say...

So, I hope to re-ignite the passion I used to have for programming again. It's been a while since I felt like sitting down and coding for the fun of it. Heck, I hardly play any games anymore, and I really like doing that! I've got a couple of nifty ideas for some simple software packages that I hope I might be able to turn into something.

I'm back reading technical books. In fact, I just bought a couple of hundred dollars worth of technical books from No Starch Press that piqued my interest.

This, to me, is a sign that I'm ready to start hacking again! I actually think I'm quite excited. I really should stop writing this post and at least open Visual Studio...