Forget the cute dictionary definition tonight, we all know what being backlogged is like. Too many projects, tasks, bugs, deadlines, and a sever lack of time. A co-worker once called it suffering from ‘an acute temporal deficiency and a terminal case of deadline-itous.’ Terminal in the sense that you either the item gets killed off, or you do. You can’t do it all and something has to give. June and July have been fully booked for months, and I will be making a few announcements of some interesting things soon. It looks like some plone classes, and two sprints are going to be casualties. A few of the things I have been able to get done (NOTE: these were all team efforts):
- 15 new Yew shrubs planted in the back yard (NEE!)
- All the beds cut, weeded, trimmed, pruned, and a huge new bed one roughed out
- First half of the border stones are in, awaiting four yards of mulch
- New feature productized in the engine after four years of research and development
- Re-re-re-re-re-re-re-learned how complex SWIG typemaps can get
- Learned how roundup differs from trac, and how it does not (conference paper submission and review, NICE!)
- Created a detailed list of new features and code snippits to incorporate into the PyCon-Tech code base (dynamic schema creation rocks!)
- Was present at two very successful python meetups (can’t really take credit for their success, but I actually made it to them on time!)
- Wrapping my brain around multi-threading (ipython + Stackless + scipy + matplotlib = my new shell; too bad matplotlib is not thread safe on win32)
- Got the LightScribe CD art done for a set of Sugar Live CD’s I am planning on burning
I have 6 other blog posts started (most very short). All last week I was sleep deprived. This weekend improved things, mainly because my body shut down. I promised myself I would not write e-mails or these posts late at night or when I was over tired, as I tend to ramble and go off on tangents. oops….
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