{"id":189,"date":"2009-01-03T19:46:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T17:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/?p=189"},"modified":"2009-01-03T19:46:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T17:46:15","slug":"goals-for-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2009\/01\/03\/goals-for-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Goals for 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; Goals for the next 6 months.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finish reading the IT books that I&#8217;m currently busy with and read at least one more<\/li>\n<li>Watch a webcast each month.<\/li>\n<li>Listen to a podcast each week. This is more difficult now, since I&#8217;m not commuting every day<\/li>\n<li>Get up to speed with Sharepoint.<\/li>\n<li>Write at least two SQL articles to be published on the web (like at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlservercentral.com\/\">SQL Server Central<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Write two certification exams. At least one of those will be SQL Server<\/li>\n<li>Get my MCT certification.<\/li>\n<li>Get the experiments for my Master&#8217;s thesis designed. This depends on whether I&#8217;m allowed to re-register this year, after the lack of progress last year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And my goals for the local SQL Usergroup for the next 6 months:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monthly meetings with at least four different speakers<\/li>\n<li>A SQL 2008 launch event in March or April<\/li>\n<li>A website for the usergroup<\/li>\n<li>At least 15-20 regular members<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; Goals for the next 6 months. Finish reading the IT books that I&#8217;m currently busy with and read at least one more Watch a webcast each month. Listen to a podcast each week. This is more difficult now, since&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2009\/01\/03\/goals-for-2009\/\">(Read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7h6n-33","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}