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dpickett




I'm doing 38 things
  

dpickett's Life List

  2. 1. raise a family
    		268 people
  3. 2. get rich
    		2,084 people
  4. 3. get a dog
    		3,870 people
  5. 4. Finish reading all the books I own before reading new ones
    		212 people
  6. 5. learn cpr
    		306 people
  7. 6. Get an MBA
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  8. 7. be more creative
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  9. 8. present at a conference
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  10. 9. Stop getting into car accidents
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  11. 10. Take more pictures
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  12. 11. Save money
    		14,718 people
  13. 12. Learn to speed read
    		470 people
  14. 13. Invest
    		873 people
  15. 14. go to Macworld
    2 team members     		20 people
  16. 15. get an iPhone
    2 team members     		191 people
  17. 16. get into a routine
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  18. 17. be a leader
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  19. 18. get married, stay married, and live happily ever after
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1,897 people
  20. 19. keep my house cleaner
    		127 people
  21. 20. get press in a magazine or on a website
    		2 people
  22. 21. write more
    		3,500 people
  23. 22. program smarter
    		1 person
  24. 23. Contribute to an open source software project
    		802 people
  25. 24. learn Itallian
    		11 people
  26. 25. buy a house
    		12,584 people
  27. 26. speak French
    		512 people
  28. 27. Own a successful business
    		90 people
  29. 28. Finish my company website
    		4 people
  30. 29. be a CEO
    		34 people
  31. 30. Get into an exercise routine
    		110 people
  32. 31. write a book
    		26,117 people
  33. 32. Make new friends
    		12,789 people
  34. 33. play more guitar
    		239 people
  35. 34. pay off my student loans
    		2,845 people
  36. 35. cook more
    		1,931 people
  37. 36. learn to fix my car
    		86 people
  38. 37. design and build my own home
    		167 people
  39. 38. Become an expert rails programmer
    1 entry . 1 cheer     		1 person

How I did it
How to do more unit testing
It took me
6 months
It made me
happy

How I did it: I used autotest, part of ZenTest's suite. I started with RSPEC, but I'm now actively using Shoulda as it's built on top of test::unit. I use CruiseControl.rb for continuous integration although I'm looking at integrity Read how I did it…

Dec 08, 2008, 04:31PM PST | 0 comments


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Become an expert rails programmer
I'm now a full time consultant 11 months ago

I now contract full time in Rails Development. I’m getting better at it every day!

Dec 08, 2008, 04:34PM PST | 0 comments


get married, stay married, and live happily ever after
I'm engaged 11 months ago

I got engaged and we couldn’t be happier. We’re now planning the wedding for May and our love is growing every day.

Dec 08, 2008, 04:32PM PST | 1 cheer | 1 comment


Pay off car loan
All Done 16 months ago

I send my payoff balance a few months ago, and it is really nice to not have that extra payment. What’s great, is I’ve taken the monthly expense and started putting in my savings account

Jul 14, 2008, 08:52AM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments


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be a better mother ride dressage to music Sing start working out Read Daily get rid of my acne take a road trip with friends improve my website Khaled Al-Sebaei wants to change get a six pack play sims 2 in online find out why i'm so tired all the time KaraCouture wants to build my dvd collection make my own clothes Become a model Go to Paris Make my parents proud travel to Spain learn to speak italian Read more read all the books I own meet andrew mcmahon buy a camera move to a bigger place go away Get a PhD write a book and have it published
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