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Original Post: My to-do list always grows post-OSCON
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Every year at OSCON I come home with a head full of ideas, and
better yet, a huge list of new things to work on. Since the
book is
now done, and OSCON is now over, there's a chance I could work on
them.
Ack plug-ins
I've been wanting to have plug-ins for
ack for at least a year now, and
I've connected with a number of people like Randy J. Ray who
are on board to help me out. First task: Move it on over to
github.
Coverity scans for Parrot
Met with David Maxwell of Coverity
and he fired up the Coverity bot for Parrot, and now I have new
niggling bugs to pick at.
PR work for first big release of Rakudo
There will be the first major release of Rakudo
in spring 2010, and I got some plans going with Patrick Michaud
to figure how we were going to build up buzz for that. I also
have the notes from Damian's Perl 6 talk which are a fantastic
summary of Perl 6's cool new features.
Human Creativity
Julian Cash has been having Jos Boumans do all his Perl work
for the Human Creativity project,
but I offered up my services to do whatever he wants. Turns
out the Julian is also working with Devin Crain, who I've known
for years in an entirely non-geeek context.
Hiring horror stories
Got some great response to
my talk on job interviewing,
and as always the stories resound the most. I talked to a few
people afterwards who said they'd give me some horror stories
I can run on The Working Geek as
instructive examples of how not to do things, and why they're
so awful.
For those of you leaving OSCON, what tasks did you just assign
yourself in the past week?
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