[Update]: I’ve shortened the post … it took forever to get to the point earlier.

[Update 2]: I’ve renamed the Codeplay project to Codecamp since there is a company in the UK named Codeplay. My mistake, didn’t mean to cause any copyright infringements.

Following up my earlier post If I build it what will come here is my future plans.

During the last 10+ years I have been very fortunate to work with design and business development both on- and offline. Both with really small businesses and some of the worlds largest corporations. This has given me insight in a lot of different business environments and I have met a lot of people in different positions and situations.

In the smaller businesses and startups I often find people that shares my passion for work, we share the same ideals; a huge LOVE for the things we work with. I love my situation even more since I know that I’m totally in control of mine and my business’ direction and progress.

But too often you find yourself locked up in large projects, that takes weeks and months to knock off, and you tend to think “I’ll get on with my personal ideas and projects once I’ve finished this project”. No more of that I say. It’s time to get more serious about the non-client stuff. It’s playtime!

Based on my past I have the design and business knowledge. What I lack today is serious tech and development skills. That, right now, is the biggest obstacle for me when it comes to realising my ideas.

To me it would be a priceless suite to have the three; business, design and development. Hence my plan for the future:

I will start “Playday” and “Codecamp” – self education during work time … or more correctly; playtime during worktime:

Playday
So, once a month it’s “Playday” – a full day of just with playing around with my personal ideas (I think I will schedule it on a friday. Rules for Playday:

- No sitting in front of the computer.
- Use pen and paper to sketch things out.
- Look through all the old projects and ideas. Find the really good ones and build further on those.
- Share your ideas with the community by Twitter, Nofont.com or maybe UStream/JustinTV-like services.

Codecamp
5 hours a week of learning new programming languages, guess I’ll start with two … more on that in a later post. Rules for Codecamp:

- Has to follow a strict timeline that I will set up for each programing language.
- Has to follow a “learning plan”; a book. Be serious Andreas!
- The net is only for refrerence and problem solving, no time-wasting by surfing tutorials here and there.
- The overall goal for Codecamp is to realise the Playday ideas and projects.
- Share progress and techniques with the community and other designer that wants to get more into tech/dev.

Things has already started good with mine and Jaan Orvets “Noded” book/site and the recent LoveTweet.com … and a few more projects is in the pipe.

So that is my plan for 2009 … see you soon!