A couple of the Twisted folks are gonna hate me for this. :)

I had two options for my spring break:

1. I could spend it in DC, going to PyCon; or,
2. I could spend it in San Juan, going to… well, San Juan.

In both cases, I’ve been offered a free place to stay (frankly, I can’t afford a hotel or a hostel). Both trips would probably run me an equal amount in travel expenses, since plane tickets to Puerto Rico were dirt cheap. So the choice was a week hacking with really smart people, or a week drinking in the sun. I’ve spent practically every school vacation at work since age 15. I figure I need some rest and relaxation on the beach before graduation.

So, while I’d certainly have plenty to do at PyCon, and I’m sure I could accomplish a lot in that one week, the beach won. I fly out this coming Sunday, and fly back in the following Tuesday morning.

There are, however, a few things that I still want to work on, and hopefully after break (and midterms) I’ll have a little more spare time to focus on them:

• Go, the system I use to manage my site, is undergoing a [second] serious overhaul. Working with Nevow makes a lot of complicated tasks dead simple. I’m adding support for users, access control, and some other cool stuff. Thanks to Freeform, I can edit each page, set permissions, change the site configuration, and even edit the user database through automagically-generated web forms. When I get back, I’ll write more on what I’ve got so far.

• Nevow itself still lacks a couple things I think could be really useful. Support for lists is a big one; this seems to work for Quotient’s Pools, but not as a general-purpose development tool. One of these days I’d like to start helping Donovan with all this… but not today.

• Crow’s Nest, a project which I started last summer at Adeptra, hasn’t really been touched in months. Travis pointed me to his project Informant; it seems to have duplicated a lot of the structure of Crow’s Nest, but with a focus on user apps instead of server monitoring. I’d like to help Travis move some of Crow’s Nest’s functionality into Informant; the goal should be to have one powerful Twisted-based event monitoring app, instead of two not-so-powerful Twisted-based event monitoring apps.

On top of all this, there’s schoolwork (which I do a fairly good job of ignoring), and my continuing search for a job. So we’ll see how much of this I actually get to work on.

I will, however, be checking email and reading my subscriptions, so I expect to hear some interesting things next week from those of you who will be in DC. :)