{"id":52,"date":"2007-12-31T17:11:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T15:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2007\/12\/31\/becoming-a-better-lookback\/"},"modified":"2007-12-31T17:11:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T15:11:46","slug":"becoming-a-better-lookback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2007\/12\/31\/becoming-a-better-lookback\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a better &#8230; &#8211; lookback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d take a quick look back over the last two months, see how I faired on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2007\/10\/31\/become-a-better\/\">what I set out to do<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finish 2 database books by the end of the year &#8211; I didn&#8217;t manage to finish either, though I started both the ones I said I&#8217;d read, and a third one. Part of the problem is that I was studying for an exam until mid december<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Write at least 1 blog post a week here &#8211; Looking back I see that I wrote 8 posts in 8 weeks, however one was decidedly not SQL related and a second was just a comment on an exam. Not too bad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Listen to at least 1 SQL related podcast a week &#8211; This one was easy. I listened to a mixture of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sswug.org\/sswugradio\/\">sswug.org<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqldownunder.com\/\">SQL Down Under<\/a> and some <a href=\"http:\/\/hanselminutes.com\/\">HanselMinutes<\/a>, just for a change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now for the next 6 months.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read and finish  one database book every 2 months. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to be able to do more than this, especially since I have a thesis to write.<\/li>\n<li>Read at least one C# book<\/li>\n<li>One blog post a week<\/li>\n<li>One SQL or development related podcast a week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see in 6 months how well this goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d take a quick look back over the last two months, see how I faired on what I set out to do. Finish 2 database books by the end of the year &#8211; I didn&#8217;t manage to finish&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2007\/12\/31\/becoming-a-better-lookback\/\">(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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7h6n-Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}