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I've begun presenting again with some frequency. My topic of choice, unsurprisingly, is PowerShell. I had presented on PowerShell quite a bit back in 2009, but since then I had taken a break. Now that everyone in the area has had sufficient time to forget my earlier presentations, I can just recycle my earlier talks and give them again!

Date math is hard... at least for me. My brain has trouble thinking in terms of dates. I probably overanalyze things, but if you say something like "let's meet for dinner 2 days from now," I immediately start thinking things like "inclusive" or "exclusive" dates. Do you mean 2 days from now including today? Does it include today if it is morning, but if it is evening, we'll start with tomorrow? As I said, I'm sure I'm overanalyzing.

It's been a good 4 years since I last gave a public presentation in Memphis (it was on PowerShell), so I figured it was time to give another talk. Tonight, I gave a short talk on CasperJS at the Memphis Java User Group.

Last week, prior to a weekly meeting, one of my team members had the idea to take a few minutes before the meeting to review some code. We already do code reviews prior to deployments, but we've been wanting to improve the quality of the code reviews... we wanted to really have good dialog about code quality and be able to share that discussion with the whole team.

Now that the year of the Mayans is upon us, I wanted to take some time to look back over 2011. And don't worry, I'll do my best to not mention the Mayans and 2012 anymore this year. I won't guarantee it won't come up again because I think it is funny, but I'll try.