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.

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 or long term goals. Some of them I’ll probably never complete.

Todo

• 2010 Learn Lua (only done a little bit of it)
• Learn Perl 6 (some while after Rakudo Star has been released)
  • The Perl 6 Advent Calendar seems like a good starting point
• 2010 Commit myself to write weekly Perl blog posts for the Perl Iron Man Challenge
• 2010 Learn C#
• Lean Ruby (Ha! I can’t believe I listed this )
• 2010 Learn about MySQL replication
• 2010 Figure out Postifx to get a better understanding of it
• 2010 Become LPIC-1 certified
• Become LPIC-2 certified
• Become a Ubuntu Certified Professional
• 2010 Follow an Oracle DB course
  • Done a few chapters… Quite boring so far, nothing substantially new
• Create a real game
  • 2011 Some prototypes first!
  • And a bigger lasting project with a great story and all
• 2010 Finish reading Programming in Lua
• Finish reading Game Coding Complete, 3rd edition
• Finish reading Fundamentals of Game Design
• 2010 Finish reading Getting Things Done: How to Achieve Stress-free Productivity
• Become a decent guitar player (loooong way to go, hehe)
• Rewrite brandweeruren.nl
• Get involved with some sort of animal rights movement
• Finish Final Fantasy VII
• 2010 Finish Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core
• Finish Final Fantasy XII
• Finish Final Fantasy XIII
• Finish Eternal Sonata
• Finish C&C 3 GDI Campaign
• Start and finish Skyhammer

Finished

• 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
• 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

• 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.
• 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.