Goals for myself and this Blog

In the previous article I wrote about installing PyDev and how getting familiar with Eclipse was one of my goals.  I want to make more of an outline on what I want to accomplish over the next couple of months.  As I brainstormed I came up with the following (in no particular order at this time).

• Version Control - Git
• Create a GitHub account
• Write Python code using version control and GitHub
• Write another Django application
• Install Django on my Ubuntu Desktop and use that for Django development.
• Update my homepage, ronaldsnyder.net.  Create a dynamic interactive resume.
• Improve HTML and CSS skills
• Improve Javascript and jQuery
• Write a Web App using Twitter
• Use jQuery Masonry
• Checkout Twitter Bootstrap
• create a To Do and progress list on RonaldSnyder.net to keep track of goals and progress.

There is a bunch to do but version control jumps out to me as the first thing that needs to be done.   The other projects can benefit from using Git and GitHub and start gaining experience using it.

I haven't written any Python in a while, the Django tutorial didn't feel like I was writing code.  It was more about learning how to navigate Django and the basics of what it can do.  The next step would be to write some Python code.  The next project will be processing data on a website and write the interesting parts to either a text file, csv or sqllite database.

Next would be to install Django on my desktop and find another tutorial to walk through.  That should help get more CSS and HTML experience too.  After that is completed I would like to update ronaldsnyder.net with a Django application for my resume or CV.   I would like one resume with my current skills and a future one with the skills I am going to learn (no intention of misleading anyone, it is for the purpose of motivating myself)  So here is my list of things to accomplish in February:

1. Version control using Git and GitHub
2. In Python, parse a website and pull out the information you need.
3. Install Django on Ubuntu and work through another tutorial 
4. Update ronaldsnyder.net resume page.  

There is more in my brainstorm but those four are good for the next four weeks.  This will be an ongoing process of returning to the brainstorm, adding more tasks and creating a plan.