Michaelbox

 

This is an evolv­ing list I’m sure, but I just wanted to get the ini­tial one out the door. Feel free to add sug­ges­tions in the comments.

• Move myself up to a more com­pet­i­tive posi­tion in rates
• Bet­ter under­stand javascript and jquery
• get my finances to a point of sta­bil­ity and being able to afford the same perks that an tra­di­tional employer offers
• Vote in the South Dakota Pri­mary Elec­tions this sum­mer, for the only can­di­date worth their weight in gold.
• Get at least three patches into the core code for WordPress
• Help make top-notch doc­u­men­ta­tion for Word­Press in their theme/plugin devel­op­ment areas of the Codex
• Help make top-notch doc­u­men­ta­tion for the Mozilla Devel­oper Network
• Locally net­work more and meet new peo­ple, both per­son­ally and professionally.
• Launch Hand.Writtentweets, my too long touted idea.
• Get this site here on an orig­i­nal design
• Drop sup­port for IE7 in my free­lance work
• Meet at least one of the Word­Press Core commiters
• Attend a big-time WordCamp

 

Warn­ing, long post

The intro­duc­tion

If you have ever seen my twit­ter inter­ac­tion with Grace Smith then you know that we are pretty endear­ing to each other as friends and col­leagues in the world of free­lance. Over the past few years that we’ve known of each other, we have grown to trust each other and rely on the other’s pro­fes­sion­al­ism and knowl­edge in our respec­tive areas of exper­tise. Need­less to say, we knew we’d work together pro­fes­sion­ally even­tu­ally, it was sim­ply always a ques­tion of when.