This was 2015 and plenty to do in 2016!

2015 was an amazing year, learning a lot and making some progress in my Open Source development and climbing activities.
Buildtime Trend keeps growing, with Angular and a Facebook Open Sourced project as new users, improving my Python and JavaScript skills, setting up a CherryPy based service on Heroku, backed by a Celery/RabbitMQ task queue to make the service more responsive.

I have no real resolutions for 2016, I'll just spend my time on climbing and Open Source software development, learning new skills along the way and putting them into practice :

• use Ansible (or another configuration management tool) to provision a Vagrant based development environment for Buildtime Trend
• start using Django to add user management to Buildtime Trend as a Service
• learn how to climb safely in less equiped areas using friends, nuts, and other mobile protection
• apply the lessons learned form "The Rock Warrior's Way' while climbing
• visit a few conferences : FOSDEM, 33C3 and Newline, and maybe some more : LinuxTag, DebConf, FossAsia, KeenCon, ...
• do some improvements to my house

Plenty to do in 2016! I wish anyone an joyful year full of insights and opportunities to learn and improve.

And remember, it's all about enjoying the journey!

Here are some highlights from 2015 :

• Celebrated New Year in Lisbon.
• Reached a 365 day commit streak contributing to Open Source projects, with 2300+ commits over that period.
• visited FOSDEM 2015, another great weekend of Open Source enthousiast meeting and sharing knowledge in Brussels, with over 500 speakers and 5-10.000 visitors. Happy to meet Eduard and Ecaterina again who came over from Romania, and many others.
• Buildtime Trend was mentioned in the Black Duck newsletter 

  #OpenSource Wrap Up featuring new projects from #Facebook and #Google and a #ProjectSpotlight on @buildtime_trend http://t.co/WPo18wndI9
  — Black Duck Software (@black_duck_sw) February 13, 2015

• Buildtime Trend made it to the top 3 of hot projects on OpenHub
• Reached the most active developers top 10 on OpenHub
• Released Buildtime Trend v0.2 and launched a Heroku app hosting the service.
• Visited Cork and Dublin with Sofie, attending Jeroen's PhD graduation ceremony and meeting Rouslan and his friends.
• Attended Newline 0x05 and did two talks : Buildtime Trend : Visualise what's trending in your build process and What I learned from 365 days of contributing to Open Source projects
• Ended my commit streak after 452 days
• Went on a climbing trip to Gorges du Tarn
• Flashed my first 6a lead climbing on rock.
• Traveled to the US, East coast this time, visiting Washington DC, meeting Lieven H and Wim, exploring New York City with Tine, Lukas and Marie-Hélène.
• One-day climbing trip to Freyr with Peter.
• And another climbing trip to Beez with Lieven V, Ben, Patrick and others.
• 4th blood donation, convinced Tine to join me for her first donation! Well done!
• Deployed a Celery/RabbitMQ based worker to Buildtime Trend as a Service on Heroku, taking some load off the webservice and improving the response times.
• Climbing trip to La Bérarde, with Bleau, doing my first multipitches (Li Maye laya and Pin Thotal) with Mariska and lead climbing a few 6a+ routes. Weather was great, atmosphere was superb, climbing was fun!
• Went to Fontainebleau for the birtdayparty of Andreas. Great fun, nice people, lots of routes. Finished my first red route in Fontainebleau.
• Travelled to California and made roadtrip from San-Francisco, to Yosemite, over Tioga Pass to Mojave Dessert, Red Rock Canyon, Las Vegas, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon and flying back from Phoenix to San-Francisco. I did some climbing and hiking, took a climbing course on using cams and nuts. On the way I met a lot of nice people, with whom I had interesting conversations.
• Released Buildtime Trend v0.3
• Finished online Stanford University course Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 1
• Read The Rock Warrior's Way, a must read for any climber
• Visited 32C3 in Hamburg, 4 days of lectures, writing software and talking to other developers. It was amazing, next year again!

Gorges du Tarn 2015

It was an amazing week, climbing in Gorges du Tarn with Bleau Climbing team during the second week of the Easter holiday.
Beautiful weather, nice people, good atmosphere, a lot of climbing, some personal bests and climbing improvements on both a physical and mental level.

Some impressions :

• Flashed my first 6a lead climbing on rock : Nique le lière in the Figues au Cul sector.
• Cooked spaghetti for approx. 50 people with a great team (Peter, Lieven, Hanne, Anneke, Jasper and Tim)
• Finished a lot of 5s on sight or flashed them.
• Discovered that my tent isn't waterproof anymore. Luckily there was a bridge that kept part of the camping site dry, so I moved my tent there during the rainy night. Yes, I slept under a bridge. ;)
• Almost finished a 6a+ on Noir Désir and started working in a very exciting 6c on La Muse, two projects for next time, so I know what I'll be training for the next few months. :)

Great trip, looking forward to the next one!

This was 2013 and plans for 2014!

It's this time of the year again, reviewing the cool things that happened, learning from the stuff that didn't go as planned and adjusting the goals of last year accordingly.

2013 was busy, here are some achievements :

• visited FOSDEM 2013 and did a talk on phpMyAdmin
• visited Newline 0x03
• co-organised a GSoC info session at UGent
• first Wagner experience : Parsifal, long but musically beautiful
• phpMyAdmin is accepted as a mentoring organisation for GSoC 2013 and has 6 students. I'll be a co-mentor and co-org admin this year
• got promoted to a higher pay grade
• did a citytrip to Berlin, visited LinuxTag 2013 and moderated a few sessions. I've also got some ideas for my Android app while attending the Android session.
• finished a few yellow routes at Bleau.
• did some outdoor rock climbing in Fontainebleau.
• did a presentation introducing Latex to my colleagues.
• visited Debconf13 held in Vaumarcus, Switzerland, were phpMyAdmin had a team meeting and did a phpMyAdmin tutorial.
• went to GSoC Mentor Summit 2013 at Google Headquarters, Mountain View, California, organised a Key Signing Party and  a session on international acceptance of Open Source licenses.
• did some climbing in Yosemite National Park
• released GetBack GPS, my first Android app
• prepared sabayon for the first time.
• made more than 2000 contributions (commits and created issues) in one year on github.
• travelled to the Philipines.

Check out my plans for 2014 :

• Android app development : After releasing an Android app this year for the first time, I plan to explore this path a bit more. Improving the GetBack GPS app a bit more, I still have some ideas as you can see on the roadmap, getting some more experience on automated testing, test driven development (TDD), Java and object oriented programming along the way.
  Another Android project for this year will use Bluetooth communication, in a small project I will work on with a friend.
• Bouldering/climbing : Last year I started climbing in the gym and I did some outdoor climbing as well. I utterly enjoy this, so I definitely want to spend some more time on it. Hopefully with some outdoor climbing trips during the upcoming year.
• Visit FOSDEM and LinuxTag.

I'm looking forward to an exciting year.
I wish you and your family the same, with good health and successful projects.