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

• 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 Learn C#
  • Probably do this if I’ll rewrite Rackspace Cloud Files Sync
• Lean Ruby (Ha! I can’t believe I listed this )
• 2010 Learn about MySQL replication
• Get familiar with PostgreSql and its tools
• 2010 Become LPIC-1 certified
• Become LPIC-2 certified
• 2011 Become a Ubuntu Certified Professional
• Create a real game
  • 2011 Some prototypes first!
  • And a bigger lasting project with a great story and all
• 2010 Finish and launch the first feature complete version of Maximus
• 2011 Finish reading Game Coding Complete, 3rd edition
• 2011 Finish reading Fundamentals of Game Design
• Become a decent guitar player
  • Finger style
  • Blues
  • Rock
• Rewrite brandweeruren.nl
  • Not sure if I want this to be web-based again
• Get involved with some sort of animal rights movement
  • Dierenbescherming?
  • WSPA?
  • PETA?
• Start and finish Final Fantasy X-2
• 2010 Finish Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus
• 2011 Finish Final Fantasy XII
  • Halfway through!
• 2011 Finish Final Fantasy XIII
  • At chapter 7
• 2011 Finish Eternal Sonata
  • At the beginning of chapter 6
• 2010 Start and finish Skyhammer

Finished

• 08-09-2010 Figure out Postifx 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!
• 22-08-2010 Finish Final Fantasy VII
  • Finally finished it! Approximately finished it within 45-hours. A true 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

• Follow an Oracle DB course
  Done a few chapters… Quite boring so far, nothing substantially new. So decided to kill it off.
• 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.