2013 review: looking back at what I achieved this year...

2013-review.md

• I joined BBC News (thanks @tmaslen for seeing it through my embarrassingly bad Skype interview test)
• Learnt lots from the team at BBC (specifically @danscotton) about object-oriented design
• Helped introduce Node/Grunt as build tools
• Shifted the team off of QUnit and onto Jasmine (as an intermediary step towards something better)
• Attended the NET Magazine awards as Mrs Cleveley
• Worked on a new pattern library
• Joined the W3C Responsive Images group and also am now part of BBC GEL.
• Did a lot of refactoring/simplifying of over-engineered code
• Got the chance to write a lot more Ruby and experiment more with Node (and things like PhantomJS)
• Co-Authored the BBC News new photo gallery
• Was approached by twitter
• Open Sourced a responsive image solution for the BBC (thanks @oncletom)
• Gave a few dev talks at the BBC
• Invited to speak at W3C Responsive Images meet-up in Paris alongside speakers and participants from Google, Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Opera, W3C and Akamai (event hosted by Mozilla)
• Created a grid system for future BBC News work to use as a foundation
• Got to write a post on the BBC's responsive news website
• Slowly over the year made my move to the command line almost 100% thanks to @sthulb tireless support
• Wrote an article for NET magazine (and will be doing another next year)
• Led and released the new responsive BBC News navigation
• Voted Developer of the Year by BBC News
• NetTuts showed interest in me writing for them (watch this space)
• Acquired over a 1000 followers! a few web celebs here and there ;-)

Solid effort!

Best hire I ever made... so far ;-)

Cheeky mutha f...

@Integralist I hope I get to achieve as much as this in one year, when I join the BBC Sport team in the new year! :)