2008: The year in review

It seems that everyone is doing this so I will join in.

In short my year was this:

• Attended 4 IndyCar Series Races (Indy, Belle Isle, Kentucky, Mid-Ohio)
• Watched all the other IndyCar Series Races on TV.
• Attended one NASCAR and MotoGP Race at IMS.
• Worked with Zend on the Zend Framework Certification
• Attended my first (but not last) ZendCon

January – March:
Pushed out 3 site redesigns at work.  All of them based on Zend Framework.

April:
Started working with Zend on the Zend Framework Certification.

May:
It was the Month of May which included one of the best lead-ups to the 92nd Indy 500.   I also started using twitter more and more.

June:
I went out to Iowa Speedway for 2 days to help run an Open Test for the IndyCar Series and the Firestone Indy Lights.

July:
July started off good, there was a MotoGP test at IMS and it was awesome to hear the roar of bikes going around the track.  Then I had the honor of driving the 2006 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard Corvette around the track to help get the cars ready for the worst Allstate 400 at the Brickyard ever!  The tires that Goodyear brought just shredded after 10 laps.  I also went to one Indycar Race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Source

August:
After 5 months of hard work by the whole Zend Framework Certification Team we had wrapped up the exam and had it ready for it debut at ZendCon ’08.  I went to the IndyCar Series Race at Kentucky Speedway and The Raceway at Belle Isle in Detroit.

September:
This was by far my busiest month of the year.  We finished out the IndyCar Regular Season at Chicagoland Speedway and had the Ignural Red Bull Indianapolis GP at IMS.  After that I headed out west to ZendCon 08 where I spent 4 days with the PHP community at large including Matthew Weier O’Phinney, Ralph Schindler and Keith Casey.  While out at ZendCon I learned a lot and had a great time.

October – December:
Not much happend in my professional career here, just a lot of work but nothing too exciting.

I am hopping that 2009 will be a great year and that I will get to spend more time with the PHP Community.

Cheers!