Bucket List

My head gets clodded with lots of ideas and things I want or need to do. So much that I decided I need to create a list. This list should never be fully finished and only new stuff should be added. So no, this isn’t really a bucket list; more a Todo list. Finished stuff will be moved to the Finished list and if possible or applicable I’ll add the date to it as well..

I’ve given a couple of goals, in a way, a deadline by adding the year in bold in which I plan to finish something. When bold and italic it’s a goal I hope to finish that year but most certainly won’t . Those without a year in front of them are long term goals. Some of them I’ll probably never complete.When discarded I’ll move them to the Failed list.

Todo

• 2012 Learn Lua (only done a little bit of it)
  • Still need to come up with a project where I can use it for. Perhaps I should use it to add scripting to my yet to write Haskell IRC bot.
  • Also was experimenting with a BlitzMax IRC client
• Learn Perl 6 (some while after Rakudo Star has been released)
  • The Perl 6 Advent Calendar seems like a good starting point
• 2012 Learn Haskell
  • It also has a nice free book
  • And Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! is swell as well (I own a copy)
  • Will probably be doing a IRC Bot with the help of SimpleIRC
• 2012/2013 Learn Java
  • Not because I want to, but because I have to school eh
• 2012/2013 Learn C
• Familiarize myself with the new features in PHP 5.3 and 5.4
• Lean Ruby
• Learn Go
• 2012 Get a Raspberry Pi
• Check out Node.JS
• Check out Bread::Board
• Check out ElasticSearch
• Check out Parrot
• Learn about MySQL replication
• Get familiar with PostgreSql and its tools
• 2012/2015 Become LPIC-1 certified
• Become LPIC-2 certified
• 2014 Become an Ubuntu Certified Professional
• 2011/2015 Get my Bachelor in engineering and Master degree in computer science
• 2012 Enter Google Summer of Code
• Create a real game
  • 2012 Some prototypes first!
  • And a bigger lasting project with a great story and all
• 2012 Finish reading Game Coding Complete, 3rd edition
• 2012 Finish reading Fundamentals of Game Design
• 2012 Finish reading Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
• Become a decent guitar player
  • Finger style
  • Blues
  • Rock
• Get involved with some sort of animal rights movement
  • Dierenbescherming?
  • WSPA?
  • PETA?
• Start and finish Final Fantasy X-2
• Finish Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus
• 2012 Finish Final Fantasy XII
  • Halfway through!
• 2012 Finish Final Fantasy XIII
  • At chapter 11
• 2012 Finish Eternal Sonata
  • At chapter 6
• 2012 Start and finish Skyhammer
• Get a working PC-DC server setup for Dreamcast networking
• Check out developing for Dreamcast

Finished

• 29-01-2012 Check out ZeroMQ
  • Unfortunately it can’t communicate with normal sockets, but that’s fine. Just something one should know about though!
  • Wrote a BlitzMax module for it: htbaapub.zmq
• 12-2011 Learn about functional programming
• Started with reading about and trying out Haskell, but haven’t done enough with it yet though
• At school we are using Amanda for Discrete Math, which is heavily influenced by Haskell
• Still learning, and haven’t done a whole lot with both of them, but will be during the coming months
• 12-2011 Learn C#
• I don’t want to say I’ve mastered C#. Far from it. But the last 5 months of 2011 I’ve had to use it at school for several assignments
• Experimented with XNA as well and made a small racing game with a group of other students
• Still learning!
• 17-11-2011 Check out Arduino
• Got to try one at school. Fun stuff! Might consider buying one myself one very soon as well.
• 08-05-2011 Finish and launch the first feature complete version of Maximus
  • Not the official 1.0.0 release, but it’s feature complete.
• 20-03-2011 Move brandweeruren.nl over to my VPS
• 19-03-2011 Move forum.pcc-online.net over to my VPS
• 23-01-2011 Launched meldpuntdierenleed.nl, a small page with links to the officials of where to report animal cruelty
• 08-09-2010 Figure out Postfix to get a better understanding of it
  • My boss ordered Postfix: The Definitive Guide which was a great help and clarified stuff up a lot!
  • For my own Postfix mail server setup I’ve used Dovecot as my POP3/IMAP client.
• 22-08-2010 Finish Final Fantasy VII
  • Finally finished it! Approximately finished it within 45-hours. Truly an epic story!
• 21-08-2010 Commit myself to write weekly Perl blog posts for the Perl Iron Man Challenge
  • This one is of course never really finished, but so far I’ve managed to keep this up for 2 months and will continue to do so
• 19-08-2010 Finish reading Programming in Lua
• 17-08-2010 Finish reading Getting Things Done: How to Achieve Stress-free Productivity
  • Excellent book. This is indeed a must read.
• 07-08-2010 Finish Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core
  • Awesome game! How it was weaved together with FF VII was amazing. Ending was stunning.
• 07-2010 Learn about load-balancing (web)servers with load-balancing proxy servers and worker queues
• 06-2010 Actively contribute to some open source project(s)
  • Currently doing Maximus, the BlitzMax Module Manager
  • Currently maintaining several Perl modules, available from CPAN
  • Currently maintaining several BlitzMax modules (htbaapub.mod)
• 01-2010 Join or form a band: Not officially a band, but have been playing regularly now
• 18-01-2010 Finish reading Game Producer’s Handbook

Failed or Cancelled

• Rewrite brandweeruren.nl
  I decided to only maintain the current website to provide the current users a working product. I no longer have any plans on rewriting it. I did made it Plack/PSGI compatible so testing and deployment has become easier for me.
• Follow an Oracle DB course
  Done a few chapters… Quite boring so far, nothing substantially new. So decided to kill it off. 2010 Also didn’t turn out to be the year to do this kind of stuff.
• Learn about clustering a MySQL database
  This is not something I’m going to run into anytime soon.
• Learn and utilize CouchDB
  Sorry, lost interest. Maybe some other time.
• Create a private software application to categorize financial transactions for a bank account
  This turned out to be impossible. The bank no longer providers the required transaction data which would be used by this application.
• Create a Symbian S60 application
  Scrapped it because I no longer care.