 Happy New Year's everybody. Welcome to 2020. This is actually like the 10th time I've tried recording this video. I'm getting over this weird cold flu thing. It's like this biblical plague just swept through the whole region and everybody I know is sick. So I'm just gonna push through it. You may hear me cough. I may lose my voice a little bit, but I'm tired of like trying to record this. We're just gonna push through it. So 2019 has been a year. Wow. Seems like just yesterday I was recording the Welcome to 2019 video. So what have I been doing? Well I've been working a lot. I'm usually making this face. I consider myself a good employee and I've got promoted a few times, but those promotions come with a lot of responsibility. They have not come with a dog. Man that'd be great if I had an office dog. But usually I'm making this face or this face. I'd love to make that face, but clearly she's on some kind of medication or she needs to be. I'm not sure which. One of the other major things I've done is well I got married. Didn't think I'd ever get married. A lot of people have said hey congratulations. There've been some cynical people you know women are just after money that sort of thing. But I think I found a really good good woman in my life and we get along really really well and I truly love her. So fast forward 10 years from now if I'm still married great if not well I'll look back at this video and I'll have this smile right here this guy's making. That's not me in this picture by the way. This is me right here. But nope this is my actual wedding photo and this is the darling woman that I have married. As you can tell I have lost some hair since my previous photo. I was this handsome dashing man. Anyways I've also just been trying to unplug as you can see from this picture of me singing into a fish. Why do I have this photo out on Facebook? Anyways I've just been trying to get off the computer a little bit more. It seems like I spend most of my time again sitting at a computer doing this. So just trying to get outside of my head. Also home repair. It seems like every five minutes I'm fixing something around the house. I mean I actually have one of these little belts with all the tools on it and everything. So that's also just been a big part of my life is just keeping up with the house and that sort of thing. Haven't gotten to this point yet but probably soon. Also really really been trying to grow voidromes. I think we've gained maybe like a thousand members this year. It's just we've grown ridiculously fast. I love this group. You guys are great. If you're in the voidromes group and you're watching this you guys completely rock I can go in here any time day or night ask any kind of question and boom four or five people are answering from all over the globe. I mean I've asked everything from Windows server issues to Linux to video recording issues to what virus scanner do you use. Just a really great group of folks and if you have it definitely join up. Also started another group called bizromes. This is designed not so much towards technology. Voidromes is technology. Bizromes is well about business. It's a much smaller group. It's just started up and we're being really picky about who gets into this group. This is really designed for either professional business people or entrepreneurs or business owners. We really don't want you know like Joe the help desk guy who thinks he's going to be a millionaire. We want people that we can actually network with and work with on a professional level. The other thing that I've really really been hyper focused on is you to me. I've been working on taking the bulk of my cute courses. Why do I have a Thanksgiving playlist or a theory play I got to go in and get rid of some of these playlists. But anyways you can see I've got 187 videos out in the cute playlist and I've been working on re recording those with the newer version of cute and yeah I'm losing my voice. See it's that black plague that's going around town but I've been re recording cute and it's gotten some good reviews so I think I've been kind of fortunate. Also did some flutter dart and flutter. I actually think this is a this is something you need to watch in the future folks. If you haven't checked out dart and flutter you really should. It's I think once it matures it's going to overtake a lot of languages. If you're into Java be afraid. I know a lot of folks are laughing going Java is never going anywhere. Do you not underestimate the power of Google dart is really just coming out swinging and they're doing some pretty awesome things with flutter point in case losing my voice again sorry. I learned a pretty hard lesson on you to me. I made all these dart flutter courses six of them in total and then of course Google went and they changed the API. So now some of this stuff is broken and I've got to go back and re record stuff. I've spent a lot of my time this year focusing on these courses and going back and updating the source code. Unfortunately do the math each one of these takes me about two months so that's about an entire year of recording right there. I've got to go back and re record all this and I'm just looking at you know do I want to keep the level of detail that these courses had because these are some pretty big courses. So I'm also looking at re recording all these and just kind of in the spirit of things I want to start posting back on you Voidrom's YouTube channel. I haven't really had a chance to but I try to every time I make a course I take a couple videos and I encode them specifically for YouTube but I definitely miss the whimsical nature of YouTube of just recording something no edits and just throwing it right up there. Kind of miss that. So what's in store for 2020 well hopefully getting my voice back I think I've lost it four times so far. Chicken soup is in store for me but anyways QML I am going to be going into Udemy and I'm going to be making an entire QML course beginners intermediate and advanced it's going to be structured just like I have the cute course series of beginners and intermediate and advanced. You see I've already got cute widgets out there I'm going to put an intermediate advanced cute widgets out there too but I kind of want to switch gears and do QML. I had a lot of a lot of folks say hey start with QML not cute widgets so I think the widget series is going to be more for maintaining legacy apps for QML is going to be more for moving into the future and of course like I said flutter I'm going to be redoing all the flutter videos might not get to them all in 2020 it might be a 2021 because right at the very end of this year cute six is going to be coming out and when cute six comes out QML is going to have a major overhaul cute as a company is usually very good at backwards compatibility but I got a feeling the hard lessons I've learned with these flutter things where I have to go back and rerecord that anything I do with QML I'm going to have to rerecord also so anyways long winded version basically what I'm going to end up doing is I'm going to do a QML beginners intermediate advanced but they're going to be designed for the current region I think it's cute five five twelve I think it is anyways and then I'm going to freeze it and then once cute six comes out I'm going to redo QML for the newest version of cute so there'll be a lot of QML courses out here so that in a nutshell has been my year and what I've been doing and where I plan on going it's been a wild ride I'm going to take probably about a week or two off and just get over this cold flu thing man this thing just hit me hard and the wife told me today she's not feeling too good so I have to nurse her back to health anyways happy new year see you in 2020 thank you for watching