2014 - A Year in Review
2014 was destined to be a spectacular year. When I wrote my thoughts down last January, I thought the Broncos would win the Super Bowl and my VW Bus restoration project would be finished by summer. To focus on finishing the bus project, I didn't submit any talks to conferences. Instead of traveling to exotic locations, we opted to visit a bunch in our own backyard instead.
I should've known it'd be an interesting year when the Broncos flopped in the Super Bowl.For this Year in Review post, I'll use the format I've used the last couple of years.
Professional
I had three different clients throughout the year, all in the health care industry. I continued working on a project
with John
Muir Health where we developed a hybrid mobile app. I wrote about what I learned in
Documenting your Spring API with Swagger
and Developing an iOS Native App with Ionic.
Since I wrote the article about Swagger's Spring MVC
support,
it has become much easier to integrate; now it only requires an @EnableSwagger annotation.
In April, I started consulting with a small company in Alabama. I helped them modernize their tech stack and implemented a number of web services with Apache Camel. I wrote about this in a four-part series in September and October.
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