- Book book book. Short term goal is one chapter a week, accelerating to two.
- Class Decorator PEP and Patch. I haven't worked on it since PyCon and the patch is now out of date. I also need to check in the PEP
- str.partition() patch. Woefully out of date. Still needs more tests
- probstat[1] upgrade. It was one of my first C/Python modules and needs to be brought up to snuff.
- EuroPython talk. I need to think of one, propose it, write it, and practice it in front of Boston-PIG. My PyCon talk sucked[2] mainly because of nerves and lack of live practice (mirrors don't count!).
- Move and improve the blog. This is a tiny [400 line] custom Twisted app that runs on company servers. The last time the process was restarted was three years ago when I added the Python corner (103 minutes of CPU consumed since). Only the last X python posts are reachable via navigation, the rest you have to guess (e.g. jackdied.com/python/1).
- Book, book, book. I can't start my next venture until I get this one out of the way so it needs to be done.
[1] The first user submitted patch for probstat was from John Hunter who later went on to publish the hugely useful and widely used matplotlib. It was also his first fore [ed - first first? redundant] into open source.
[2] A few strangers did thank me for the talk and asked for the slides. Most of the feedback was from friends and was translated into "you'll do better next time" or "hey, no one booed" (spoken as "that was OK for your first time" or the obtuse " the content was good"). For me it was a perfect storm of nerves - my fight or flight reflex was already pegged at maximum from my day job at my company . Add that I was in the middle of quitting and doing transition work and lawyer stuff. Add that I hadn't spoken in public in seven years. It was a bucket of suck as evidenced by the fact that it was one of only three talks that no PyCon attendee listed as their favorite (err, one of six talks with zero favorites. You can probably include the ten with one vote as ballot stuffing too. Regardless, it was in the lowest quarter.). Next time I'll kill, I promise.