These are the technical commitments i’d like to make for 2010:
Keep improving Agatha.
It hasn’t been long since i open-sourced it but i already consider it one of the best decisions i’ve made so far. Most of it was written about 18 months ago, and it had been almost a year since any modifications were made to it before open-sourcing it. Some new features have already been added to it, and there are some more cool new features coming up in the next 2 releases. Hopefully, we (the people who work on it and the people who use it) can keep coming up with improvements.
I’d obviously like to see more people using it and increased acceptance in general, but that’s something that will take time and more effort, if it will ever happen that is. If it doesn’t happen, then the people who did take a chance on it will at least get to benefit from the effort that will be put into it.
Get more involved with NHibernate again
My last commit for NHibernate dates back to August 19th. Definitely not proud of that, but i certainly intend to get back to contributing actively. While it’s not a very pleasant code-base to work with, i did find fixing issues for NH to be rather satisfying because you know you’re either helping a few people, or a hell of a lot of them depending on the impact of the bug. I’d also love to clean up a lot of the query batching code because it is quite messy and repetitive. If any of you tracks NHibernate’s development and you don’t see a commit from me for a while, feel free to bitch at me because of it 
Increase acceptance of QuickNet
I’m starting to love QuickNet more and more. In the first post i wrote about it i mentioned that i thought it was a revolutionary step in automated testing (at least for the .NET world) and i still stand by that statement. I’d go as far as saying that if you don’t see the potential and the value of it, that i can’t help but question your willingness to improve the quality of your work in general. I was actually very disappointed with the lack of feedback that i got on my last post about it, even though i specifically asked you to comment on it. Obviously, i can’t expect everyone to leave comments, but there are quite a few of you who claim to be interested in automated testing and writing not only clean but also correct code so i was certainly surprised that a lot of those people didn’t respond to the questions i asked at the end of that post. I’m pretty sure that once a big name blogger jumps on it, most of you will jump on the bandwagon as well. Until that time comes, i’m going to continue writing about it and trying to get people interested in using it. If you don’t look forward to those posts, you might want to unsubscribe from my feed right now
Keep blogging
It’s been a pretty successful year for this blog. I plan to keep up the amount of effort i put into it, and i also want to continue building on some core principles that are pretty much the foundation of not only this blog, but also what i do and how i do it. I want to keep learning. I want to keep sharing knowledge and experience. I want to keep offering my honest and open opinions, no matter how frank or blunt they may be at times or who they might rub the wrong way. I want to remain true to myself. I will keep treating people the same, no matter how little or big their name is. A good idea is a good idea and a bad idea is a bad idea and i will continue on treating them as such, no matter who or where it came from.
My wish for you
I wish everyone the best for the following year, and i particularly wish for you to understand and be inspired by the following quote:
go farther, go further, go harder
is that not why we came?
and if not, then why bother?
Bonus points to whoever can name the author of that without googling it