Personally, 2008 has been quite productive for me in the sense that I did couple of projects in MVC (using CodeIgniter) and was able to go through the basic of LINQ as my intern project was based on ASP.NET + LINQ + SQL Server (the project is still incomplete and a bit buggy as well). It was 2008 that I wrote my first unit tests and since then I have been learning and trying to follow TDD approach. And yes I have not forgot Obama got elected the same year and finally I passed my under-graduation in Information Management (though still not received my final transcript).

But 2008 was kinda nightmare for most parts of the world. Shrinking stock market, booming unemployment, near collapse of Wall Street and global financial system (financial power house like Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, AIG, WaMu, Citi Group are gone or being bailed out by the US government), terrorist attack in Mumbai and overall the whole world experience slow down and recession with financial crisis as never seen the great depression of 1930’s.

My short list of resolutions for 2009

• Design Patterns, IoC, MVC
• Test Driven Development
• Developing REST based application(s)
• Ruby and/or Iron Ruby (But I am not so sure I will get enough time to learn and implement Ruby)
• Maintaining the current momentum of blogging + tweeting
• Getting Zend Certification

And here are few wish lists for 2009

• Get involved in some kind of open source project
• Want to see end of this financial crisis (very low possibility though)
• Want to see some permanent and effective solution of energy crisis in Nepal (feels like I am wishing too much)

I guess my list of new year resolutions are kinda achievable but I can’t do anything about my wish lists because it’s human nature always having desire to get extra and in fact impossible stuffs

So, folks wish me best of luck!

Finally, Happy New Year 2K9 to all!