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I joined BBC News (thanks @tmaslen for seeing it through my embarrassingly bad Skype interview test)
Learnt lots from the team at BBC (specifically @danscotton) about object-oriented design
Helped introduce Node/Grunt as build tools
Shifted the team off of QUnit and onto Jasmine (as an intermediary step towards something better)
Attended the NET Magazine awards as Mrs Cleveley
Worked on a new pattern library
Joined the W3C Responsive Images group and also am now part of BBC GEL.
Did a lot of refactoring/simplifying of over-engineered code
Got the chance to write a lot more Ruby and experiment more with Node (and things like PhantomJS)
Co-Authored the BBC News new photo gallery
Was approached by twitter
Open Sourced a responsive image solution for the BBC (thanks @oncletom)
Gave a few dev talks at the BBC
Invited to speak at W3C Responsive Images meet-up in Paris alongside speakers and participants from Google, Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Opera, W3C and Akamai (event hosted by Mozilla)
Created a grid system for future BBC News work to use as a foundation
Got to write a post on the BBC's responsive news website
Slowly over the year made my move to the command line almost 100% thanks to @sthulb tireless support
Wrote an article for NET magazine (and will be doing another next year)
Led and released the new responsive BBC News navigation
Voted Developer of the Year by BBC News
NetTuts showed interest in me writing for them (watch this space)
Acquired over a 1000 followers! a few web celebs here and there ;-)