# New Year - 2015

DevFeed: [New Year - 2015](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/new-year-2015-25295.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://kau.sh/blog/new-year-2015/>)

Author: Kaushik Gopal

Published: 2014-12-31T07:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Kaushik Gopal's Site](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/kaushik-gopal-s-site.md>)

Topics: [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [RxJava](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rxjava.md>), [Rails](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rails.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [personal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/personal.md>), [rails](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rails.md>), [rxjava](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rxjava.md>)

## AI overview

A personal New Year reflection reviewing 2013-2014 goals and accomplishments, including a shift from Rails development to Android development, work at Wedding Party, Android projects released to the open-source community, a blog redesign, and fitness progress. It also outlines 2015 goals involving piano, travel, and an independent Android journaling app.

## Source excerpt

i love the holidays. i especially love the new year's though cause it's an acceptable time to hit that big-nice-red reset button. stuff I wanted to get done in 2013/2014 ## get back in shape (significant progress on this front) get more sleep (been getting atleast 6 hours, which is good, now to bump it to 7) get really good at Rails (switched gears and became an android developer. i like to think i'm a pretty decent one too) get a job after my masters stuff done in 2013/2014: ## joined wedding party ### i joined as a full-time rails dev but landed up becoming a full-time android dev for them. we have some of the craziest, smartest and fun loving peeps in the industry. i'm absolutely loving my time here. released a lot of new android stuff ### besides releasing a tonne of cool features for wedding party, i managed to ship two big android projects: Android-floatlabel and learning Android-RxJava, both of which have been received pretty well by the open source community new blog design ### i changed this blog's design (again) to match my homepage. i'm really happy with this iteration of the design. i think it has just the right balance of minimalism, simplicity and style getting fit(ter) ### i'm a regular again at the gym. i was probably at my fittest around 2007 and i've still got a long way to go, before i get to that shape again. but i'm getting there. overall, 2013/2014 went by in a jiffy and was a total win! stuff I want to do in 2015: ## start playing the piano ### this is an area i've totally fallen off the bandwagon. i don't do enough sound-engineering or music anymore. i'm thinking of getting a piano/synthesizer and just start jamming again. travel to atleast two new places that i've never been ### a bunch of my close friends and i love traveling and we hit a high in 2013 (just after graduation). it was amazing until 2014, where i've hit a complete travel slump. release an independent (android) app ### i've always wanted to build the Day One app for android (gi