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Next year will be about big changes. In January, my wife and I are going to Gibraltar. I hope it will be very educative experience to work in English speaking country. Good thing about new job is that finally I will be working on HTML5 Games - something I was thinking about for a couple of years already. Most of the people make new resolutions to do something... unfortunately it does not work for me. The best thing I can decide to do is to create new habits. It might be a strange idea, but I am not the only one who thinks that way, for example, read " 5 Ideas to Create an Amazing 2015 ". I want to adjust how I have managed my plans and task and I really like the idea of weekly adjustments. This is something that I have done randomly - sometimes even after a couple of months so I hope it can really help me. Saying that I have some big ideas and I think that putting them here can help me remember about them during the year. It may inspire your own goals so here it is: ...

Organized Events: Reading Club  6-th of November Gamedev.js Kraków #2: CreateJS  7-th of November Gamedev.js GameJam Kraków  17-th of November Meet.js Kraków  19-th of November Books: GRYWALIZACJA. Jak zastosować reguły gier w działaniach marketingowych Autor: Paweł Tkaczyk Really good book! It's distilled knowledge about gamification everything connected to it. Mostly things like fun, motivation, types of players and personalities. What is good in this book is that it gives you not only higher perspective but also gives some good ideas that you can use to use gamification in personal life. 9/10 Sezon burz Autor: Andrzej Sapkowski Another good book from the author of The Witcher! First chapters weren't so good but it gets better with every page and at the end you just want more. Rating 8/10. Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials by Will Goldstone I shouldn't rating this book as I read this to broaden my understanding of 3D and to...

Last month I spent more time reading books than on the web, part of this because I got a couple of books from Santa and another part is because I my new company there is really nice culture of reading books. So in order of end date:  Test-Driven JavaScript Development by Christian Johansen  http://tddjs.com/  - really good book but it was hard to finish, at some time I stopped writing examples and read it till the end just to get most important ideas of it. Nevertheless really good book and introduction to TDD. You Are Not So Smart by  David McRaney  http://youarenotsosmart.com/  - about most common biases and how I am stupid ;)  JavaScript Design Patterns - but this one was in Polish from Helion. Pretty good one and much better than I thought earlier. The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card - This on is fantasy book :) Pragmatic Learning and Thinking by Andy Hunt - another good book about mind and learning Async JavaScript by T...