2006 - Key Performance Indicators

Ok, so only Miki and her works friends will get the title, but here is what I want to get done this year (everyone else is writing one of these and it seems like a nice way to let people know what you are going to be doing this year):

1. Get Sun Certified for Java. I have the exam voucher (paid for by Collis, nice!). All I have to do now is pass it. Damn.

2. Get married. Things are progressing nicely on that front, but I have to now find a suit! We have been looking at some of the smaller details now, but we have to wait a while to arrange things like the food for example.

3. Get a house. We have an appointment in a couple of weeks with an estate agent to let them know what we are looking for.

4. Make a Java graphics demo. Making some progress here, I have Java working with OpenGL, but it runs at a snails pace. I have made a small particle system (always nice practice with LinkedLists and memory management, made wonderfully intuitive with Java!). The OpenGL bindings I am using are called JOGL, they are really nice because they are exactly the same as for C++ (unlike Java 3D, I tried it out, but looks like a lot of work and time is needed to get your head around it). Anyway, perhaps I can implement some threading and get the speed up :)

5. Try not to let work stress get the better of me!

- Steve.