This day is very good for little "look back" through the last year. There are three reasons for it. First, today is the dead-line for my job commitments review (which is not so important for my blog). Second, it's exactly one year when I started blogging; and the last reason is my birthday. Well, there is not so much about my birthday; I'm eighteen with ten years of experience..
Achiever
Much more interesting is my one-year-of-blogging review. If you read my first blog post explaining why I started blogging at all, I hope you will agree with me, that I achieved my commitments :) My idea was to help other people who solving similar problems that I was solving before. If you look at discussion under the C328R camera blog post, you will find really long discussion. It seems, that there is no single line of code on the whole internet, which will work with the C328R camera. You can find comments from C++, Java and desktop C# developers who wants to interface this camera and they all started with my .NET Micro Framework driver.
Giver
I'm also very happy with my article about managed code services for windows mobile. Peter Nowak took my code and after some improvements submit it to CodePlex as an open source project. This is really satisfying for my "contributors feeling". I've received so much from community and I'm happy to give something back.
Recognized
As I said, the most influencing for my blog was an attendance on MEDC Europe 2007. I was there as a regular attendee. Who ever thought, that next year I will be there as "partial" speaker and "booth-staff" (this year was the MEDC merged with TechEd). And this all just because of my blog. I would like to thank to Jonathan Kagle and all other guys from .NET Micro Framework group, who took me as a part of the team on TechEd event. My big thanks comes to John Leier (former Digi, now at Microsoft) and Martin Schulte-Hobein (Digi) for all the hardware that they provided to me. This all helps me to extend my expertise in .NET Micro Framework and then be helpful to others..
I will try to keep on (I believe) good blog posts. That's my commitment for the next year :)
