http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2005/11/10/things-to-do-with-unexpected-free-time en-us 40 Quality rants on programming theory and stuff geeks like <p>I have some good news and some bad news. First &#8230;</p> <h3>The bad news</h3> <p>Today I discovered that funding for one of my projects has dried up &#8211; at least for now. My client for the project is an academic institution and subject to the fickleness of grants. I knew this going in, and so I&#8217;m not shocked at the prospect of having to freeze the project. It has happened before.</p> <p>The project is very cool and just now approaching the fun stage where people begin to benefit from it. I hope that the funding to thaw the project out and resume work will be quick in coming. The reality, however, is that project will likely be frozen for several months.</p> <h3>The good news</h3> <p>With the project on hold, I now have a chunk of spare time to work on my neglected open source projects!</p> <p>Things to do:</p> <ul> <li>Write something about <a href="http://community.moertel.com/LectroTest">Test::LectroTest</a> for <a href="http://perl.com/">perl.com</a> and the forthcoming <em>Perl Hacks</em> book.</li> <li>Create a movie showing Test::LectroTest in action. (As the movies for <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/">Ruby on Rails</a> demonstrate, video is a great way to communicate complex ideas.)</li> <li>Prepare a talk or two for the fabulous <a href="http://pgh.pm.org/">Pittsburgh Perl Mongers</a>.</li> <li>Hack with other folks: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.pugscode.org/">Perl 6</a></li> <li><a href="http://typo.leetsoft.com/trac/">Typo</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Catch up on my reading: <ul> <li><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/users/simonpj/papers/boxy/"> Boxy types: type inference for higher-rank types and impredicativity</a></li> <li><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/users/simonpj/papers/higher-rank/index.htm">Practical type inference for arbitrary-rank types</a> (revised version)</li> <li><a href="http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~sheard/papers/PutCurryHoward2WorkFinalVersion.ps">Putting Curry-Howard to Work</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>Chat more on <tt>#haskell</tt>.</li> <li>Drink more espresso.</li> </ul> <p>Anything else I ought to have on the list?</p> Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:22:00 -0500 urn:uuid:a74d95bf1a4d5f23d96669614ce44c86 Tom Moertel http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2005/11/10/things-to-do-with-unexpected-free-time work http://blog.moertel.com/articles/trackback/13