Stuff to learn in 2009

Posted Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 1:20 a.m. by Chris Amico in Projects and Self-Indulgence

Just going to write all this down so I don't forget. Could call it "resolutions" but that whole mindset seems designed to produce regret come December. Let's just make this a to-learn/to-do list:

GeoDjango

With Tools for News up and running and RedFence 2.0 almost there, I feel like I've got a good enough grasp of Django to try out the GIS branch. I've got a subdomain for it set up and a couple project ideas to play with. No promises that anything interesting will happen there, but it's there.

JavaScript

I have a well-served bias against everyone's favorite client-side scripting language, mostly due to the number of websites I've seen broken by it. But I do need it to do proper mapping and work with a lot of APIs. Big question: Go straight to jQuery or get a solid grounding in basic JS first. Might depend on which tutorials I find. Thoughts?

Travel more

OK, not really something to learn, but definitely something to do. As of February, I'll have been back in the States a year. Time to get moving.

More ideas

  • Screen scraping
  • Rebuild this blog and my portfolio in Django
  • Apply for a Knight Challenge Grant
What else should I be learning?

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