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Tech goals

Posted on July 8th, 2006 by Sacha Chua

Every so often, I like setting myself tech goals. My first major open source tech goal was to hack the iPaq, considering that undergrads were expected to do Linux on the iPaq as part of their CS degree in some university in the US. So I did, and I ended up

The next thing I wanted to do was get into Emacs Lisp. I ended up contributing to Emacs Relay Chat and helping out with Planner and related modules.

Now I think I want to be more into Ruby. And Perl 6, which looks awesome. Maybe I can practice technical writing by filling in the documentation and writing sample code...

Random Japanese sentence: 猫がネズミを嗅ぎつけたようですね。 Seems like the cat had the wind of a rat.

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