{"id":379,"date":"2010-12-19T13:27:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T21:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2010-12-26T07:46:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T15:46:19","slug":"2010-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"2010 Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2010 was a year packed with many things&#8230; random highlights that come to mind include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>London Calling &#038; Green Park<\/strong>: After years of enjoying and visiting London, I got a business visa and a flat with Maria and spent about 5 months here working, meeting with clients, traveling to other places in Europe, etc. My flat is just a few blocks from Buckingham Palace and is surrounded by history. The winters are terrible though. This change had several consequences, including&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>switching from <strong>US Airways to British Airways<\/strong> as my primary airline. I now have preferred status on both. It also helps that <a href=\"http:\/\/businessconnect.ba.com\/make-a-connection\/business-spotlight-sitepen\/\">SitePen won an amazing business opportunity grant from BA<\/a>. After years of poor experiences with BA, I learned first-hand what a great airline BA can actually be.<\/li>\n<li>I found myself not getting out enough in the tech scene, and with no perfect JavaScript or Ajax group, I started the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/londonajax.com\/\">London Ajax User Group<\/a><\/strong> with Piotr Zalewa (of MooTools and JSFiddle). The group is up to nearly 300 members, has had 9 events to date, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/londonajax\/videos\">one-day conference<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We also hosted a <strong>Dojo Mobile Summit<\/strong> in London which was good from a proximity perspective with many of the Dojo Foundation&#8217;s mobile projects being based on this side of the pond. Besides progress on mobile efforts, the result is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/dojofoundation.org\/mobile\/\">Dojo Foundation Mobile Roadmap<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>SitePen hosted a <strong>Dojo Workshop<\/strong> in London, with attendees from Germany, Norway, and all over England.<\/li>\n<li>I had <strong>more people visit<\/strong> me in one year in London than in 3+ years in Arizona, with house guests from Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa! London truly is the center of the world. It was great to see a lot of friends and show them the sights. It also encouraged me to take time and be a tourist.<\/li>\n<li>I was in London for the start of the <strong>World Cup<\/strong>, with the USA tying England much to the disappointment of all of London, especially on the queen&#8217;s birthday. And I was around to see <strong>Spain win its first ever championship<\/strong>, including crazy celebrations at Piccadilly Circus. Update: And I got to catch a match at Wembley Stadium with Robin Bowes, with York City taking on Oxford. Robin was interviewed by his local news after York&#8217;s disappointing loss.<\/li>\n<li>I had the great opportunity to be on the <a href=\"http:\/\/jsconflive.com\/dylan-schiemann\">first episode of JSConf Live<\/a>. Thanks Rey and Chris!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maverick<\/strong> (my dog) moved to Nevada to live with my parents, and he&#8217;s very happy to have a new playmate, Buster<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2010 was also a year of significant give and take:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m a <strong>proud uncle<\/strong> for the first time, with my sister and her husband having an adorable new niece Alanna, <\/li>\n<li>but I&#8217;m saddened with the <strong>loss of my amazing Grandpa Otto<\/strong>, who passed away right before Thanksgiving.<\/li>\n<li>My <strong>Arizona home was robbed<\/strong>, but <strong>almost everything was recovered<\/strong> because the thieves were busted for smoking pot, stole a suitcase, and left my tags on it.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>lost<\/strong> an external hard drive on a BA flight, but it was <strong>found<\/strong> and since recovered.<\/li>\n<li>Maria&#8217;s uncle had brought her a carrier unlocked Nokia white smart phone from Spain, but it was <strong>stolen from his luggage<\/strong>. A few weeks later I was at a charity auction\/party where I met many great people, I bought \u00c2\u00a35 worth of raffle tickets and <strong>won the same phone<\/strong> model back, but in black. Thanks for the invite Hermione and Kristy (who also went to high school in Sparks, Nevada&#8230; small world)!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been advised to buy a lottery ticket, lose it, and then those numbers will win, and then I&#8217;ll find the tickets.<\/p>\n<p>I did a significant amount of traveling again, some for work, some for play, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Five weeks in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dylans\/sets\/72157625260453656\/\">Thailand<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dylans\/sets\/72157625339692051\/\">Cambodia<\/a><\/strong>, including elephants, temples, near daily massages, first attempts at yoga, and so very much more. Flat Stanley also came along providing great stories for my cousin Katie.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oslo<\/strong> to help lead an HTML5 CodeCamp at a great spa, and talk with KLP about Dojo.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rennes and Paris<\/strong>, France, for amazing crepes and to meet with great teams at Orange Labs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stockholm<\/strong> for SWDC 2010 where I finally met Daniel Glazman after 10 years of knowing him online, and got to celebrate Nikolai&#8217;s birthday.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Copenhagen<\/strong> to visit Mark Wubben and have a Dojo Beer event<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brussels<\/strong> for FOSDEM where I gave a talk on Dojo and spent time with Nikolai from Uxebu and two of the guys from Facebook&#8217;s open source team<\/li>\n<li><strong>Munich<\/strong> for Dojo Connect. I guess it somewhat defeats the purpose of an online conference, but it was a great excuse to stay with Tobias and Sonja<\/li>\n<li><strong>San Francisco<\/strong> and the bay area several times, most recently for the <strong>Dojo Developer Day<\/strong> at Palm (thanks Ben and Dion) and got to meet a very generous group from RIM\/Blackberry. I also had the chance to visit with Michael Carter (Hookbox), Atif of <a href=\"http:\/\/kupoz.com\/\">Kupoz<\/a>, my Mom &#038; Dad, and so many more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New York<\/strong> a few times for various meetings and fun<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amsterdam<\/strong> with the great people from Uniface and Hermione Way of Newspepper and The Next Web for iCU 2010 and <a href=\"http:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/2010\/12\/14\/bad-ass-squares-part-3\/\">Bad Ass Squares 3<\/a>. Uniface was also nice enough to invite me to speak at their UK user group event.<\/li>\n<li>And while I was away, <strong>az-javascript<\/strong> was started and I gave a talk on Dojo at one of their events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally so much of what&#8217;s listed above would not have been possible without the hard work and success we&#8217;ve had with <strong>Dojo Toolkit, Dojo Foundation, Persevere, and SitePen<\/strong>, and I&#8217;m <strong>extremely grateful<\/strong> to get the opportunity to work with extraordinary people every day. Thanks to everyone for being part of my 2010!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2010 was a year packed with many things&#8230; random highlights that come to mind include: London Calling &#038; Green Park: After years of enjoying and visiting London, I got a business visa and a flat with Maria and spent about 5 months here working, meeting with clients, traveling to other places in Europe, etc. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,13,1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}