I know 2009 is supposed to be a tought year considering the recession and all, but I am confident that I will do well no matter what. A couple of things can explain this confidence, first I see the bunch of projects that I have lined in front of me for the comming months which will provide me work until the second half of the year. Also witnessing how much I improved this year technically speaking, I can’t imagine where I will be next year. All in all 2009 will be a good year.

So, as all starting year post I will set myself new objectives. Writting them here will give me more incentives to attain them in order to protect my pride. I guess my first objective will be to augment the attendance to this blog to 35 ooo visits a month. That is a bit bigger than doubling what I have right now. My second objective would be to write 2 – 3 articles for other publication  like the one I did for InsideRIA. I would also like to start looking for speaking opportunities, I don’t put to much emphasis on that one but my long term goal is to give a presentation (about topic like SEO, Google Analytics for Flash, PureMVC) in a conference somewhere in 2010. My last goal would be to look around for MBAs that I might find interesting. I always wanted to do a master degree, but since I started working that thought as been pushed back a bit, but I think next year might be a good year to go back to school; at least part time.

I also have some personal objectives like going to the gym more often and eating better, but that is of lesser interest to this blog.

I hope you all get a good 2009 year and that the recession does not darken to much what you see for yourself in the coming year.

What is funny when you work on a project for such a long time is the fact that you improve so much in the mean time, that you look back at your early code and you can’t believe you did that. During I was working on the VIAGRA website,  I switched animation package three time to end up with TweenLite, I started looking at SWFAddress now I kinda use it on every project, knew nothing about AS3 and so on. It was also the first project where I started using Object Oriented techniques to build it.

When I present a website I did, I like to list all the libraries I used, so here I go again. Well first it was all built in Actionscript 2.

• SWFObject
• SWFAddress
• TweenLite
• PageFlip component (you have to pay to use this one)
• DynamicFlash Delegate class

Most of the 3D was done using 3D Studio Max exept for the button animations that where done using Maya.

Well that’s it, go and hang around the VIAGRA.ca clubhouse!

That conclude my week of posting everyday (well I didn’t post yesterday, but I posted twice today), see you in a month (just joking).