Geek Vacation 2016

I just had a two-week vacation, and I tried to use my time to rest, play some music, and complete a geek todo-list.

The list included things that I used some time ago but wanted to refresh my memory, things that I already used but never spent time reading the manuals, and other things that I saw somewhere but never actually used in any project.

Here the complete list, with the items that were completed highlighted. Some links with pointers to what I used to study.

• gdb, strace, ptrace, etc, sysdig, dtrace (looked for links at HackerNews and reddit) ✔
• geodesy (Wikipedia, some PDF’s) ✔
• QGIS (Boston GIS docs and YouTube videos) ✔
• SRS & CRS (Wikipedia) ✔
• BioPython (project page) ✔
• BioConda (project page) ✔
• Weaver & asm (project page and Wikipedia) ✔
• afl (project page, and some tests with MapServer) ✔
• WFS (Wikipedia, GeoServer and MapServer) ✔
• SaltStack (project page, Jenkins Plug-ins for SaltStack, and a few tests with VM’s and Docker) ✔
• InfluxDB (project page) ✔
• rr (project page and some local tests) ✔
• ZeroMQ (project page, SaltStack source code) ✔
• netty (project page) ✔
• RethinkDB (project page, and a test project) ✔
• C++ (templates, abstractions in C++, etc) (just this article to remember syntax) ✔
• Linear programming (PuLP docs) ✔
• AKKA (project page) ✔
• Frege (project page (reading their new book))
• JVM internals (played a little with asm, javap)
• Java Concurrency (started re-reading Java Concurrency in Practice, but still in the initial chapters)
• PostGIS (project page)
• Krita (project page and David Revoy’s tutorials)
• Scala (project page)
• Minecraft Forge (project forum)
• Graphs in Jenkins, cylc, Spark, Jena and clue/graph (didn’t have time for this one)

Going to have less spare time now for Open Source and learning the rest of the stuff on this list, but there’s always some books to read, and things to learn anyway right ¯\(ツ)/¯

Categories: Blog

Tags: Opensource, Workflows, Cylc, Python