This was 2012!

2012 was great, here are some cool things I did :

• went to FOSDEM, attended the phpMyAdmin team meeting, and showed two friends around in Ghent, Antwerp and Bruges
• got into the top 3 of most active contributors on ohloh.net
• successfully suggested a commission at my university to make their reports available sooner
• improved my OOP skills, implementing composite and singleton design patterns and further abstracting my Open Source framework
• participated in TransitieUGent, a platform for setting goals and actions for UGent to become more sustainable by 2020/2050.
• had a lot of fun building a piñata-like moose as a present for my sister's wedding
• participated in an assessment test at work and passed
• achieved swimming 2 km in less than an hour
• created a document in LaTeX
• holiday in Greece with some friends
• released a first beta version of my web development framework, which is 100% compliant with PEAR coding style
• started running and did 10 km in about an hour by the end of the summer  
• made a linux server work as a TimeMachine storage device.
• mentored Rouslan Placella for GSoC project : 'Removal of frames in phpMyAdmin'
• subscribed for a weekly organic fruit package of De Wassende Maan
• did a triathlon, doing swimming (2km), cycling (26km) and running (5km) on the same day
• motivated his colleagues to come to work without a car, by pledging to run 100 meters for everyone that did, and eventually ran 4 km.
• organised a trip for some friends to the opera 'La Damnation de Faust' by Berlioz, directed by Terry Gilliam. The opera was great, BTW.
• attended Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2012 at Google HQ in Mountain View, California.
• visited Yosemite National park again (organising the trip for some fellow Mentor Summit attendees)
• started climbing (bouldering)
• baked an apple cake for the first time and perfected it after a few tries.
• got an award for 'motivating colleagues to come to work without a car'
• released a first version of a lab instrument reservation tool at work
• took on Android development, first creating a 'Hello World!' app and then starting to work on a small but a bit more complicated app, while exploring the possibilities of the Android framework
• swam in a 50 meter swimming pool

And some other things that happened :

• wedding of my sister
• funeral of Wim
• wedding of my steph brother
• my other sister graduated as a teacher
• mother moving to Hasselt
• Brecht defended his PhD
• wedding of Tho and Tine