To do

Some ideas I want to follow through when I have time:

1. http://www.drpaulcarter.com/pcasm/
   
2. http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/
   
3. Look at http://simonwoodside.com/dev/symbian/howto.html to develop for Symbian
   
4. Make comparison between log4c or similar and syslog
   
5. Move UNIX Toolkit pages from archive to wiki
   
6. Add note to UNIX Toolkit page on Forking that "forking to background is no longer done; use scripts for it"
   
7. Include common errors in gcc page of UNIX Toolkit
   
8. Include gdb sample usage including compile flags "-g3 -gdwarf-2" into UNIX Toolkit pages
   
9. Include syslog usage into UNIX Toolkit pages, including reference to syslog-ng which includes the option that you can grep for process name and log to specific file. Developers can then be standard users on their Linux desktops.
   
10. See if MySQL supports something like a notifier that actively messages a client whenever new data is written to a table (use triggers?)
    
11. Write an oddmuse plugin that, when asked for the password, returns you to the page you came from, refreshing it
    
12. Make project to include FPGA, search opencores for a simple USB project, make project plan for AI-course
    
13. Check out http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/Trace/Nix
    
14. Check out http://www.bprbzk.nl/ and see who can request information and how to block it
    
15. Create some sort of a [[VPS_management_architecture?]]
    
16. Create an Oddmuse plugin that implements a counter per page
    
17. Create an Oddmuse plugin for a poll-like portlet or page
    
18. Check out the Oddmuse plugin for Google site maps
    
19. Compare OSGi, Jini and UPnP in an article
    
20. Flesh out the Cheap VPS Hosting page with a Google Adsense category and a few reports on try-outs of the providers
    
21. Add inline ads to the adsense.pl module
    
22. Write a Firefox extension that can export the current page as an image
    
23. Make Wine look at the underlying theme to determine its colors
    
24. Make Wine print without generating huge PS files
    
25. Have a look at javacc
    
26. Read the pipelines and state machines articles of Dave and Andy
    
27. Research the encoding thing in MySQL, linux, windows, oracle and Postgres
    
28. Create a script for Fedora that recompiles and reinstalls all RPMs, with compilation options for optimization against the current architecture
    
29. See how to set up an encrypted home directory
    
30. Take a look at DocBook and create a presentation for the boss
    
31. See how Log4J output can be colorized. Can Chainsaw do this?
    
32. Finish the piece on Starfighter
    
33. See if I can become a member of the JCP
    
34. Check out shorewall

Writing:

1. Write an article on outsourcing -- study and make a comparison between IT and the long-lost textile industry in the Netherlands
   
2. For the blog: interesting make a regular analysis/writeup on harvard business review articles?

Books and articles:

1. Check out The Evolution Of Cooperation
   
2. Check out the Dragon Book
   
3. Check out the Pragmatic book shelf to see if there's something worthwile
   
4. Have a look into the writings of Luke Hohmann
   
5. Read up on Paul Strassmann and Nicholas Carr
   
6. Really, really need to read The Elements Of Style
   
7. Check the articles of Robert C. Martin
   
8. Buy Sander Hoogendoorn's book on pragmatic UML modelling
   
9. Buy the GoF book and ditch the rotten copy
   
10. Explanation of REST
    
11. Buy Martin Fowler's Refactoring

Website:

1. Make link to homepage in header, or just enter a logo
   
2. rework the comments on K5 into the piece on queues
   
3. Make the upload script more flexible
   
4. Make Oddmuse support ellipsis and maybe ligatures? See also here