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For quite some time now, I've kept a personal project management list that has just kept growing longer and longer...  My hope is to start on this list of projects I've accumulated and begin to research my interests thoroughly and that by doing so, I'll be able to knock a few off of the list.  A lot of the entries I have are strictly there as research topics that I believe I could put to good use in the future. ...So here are some things that I will be blogging about: What I'm doing:

• Studying anything that catches my interest
• Finally making a jump from building a list of things to do to actually checking off those things at least one at a time.

Here's a list of tech and projects per field I'm interested in: Web based/related:

• AppScale
• Joomla
• SugarCRM
• Ruby on Rails
• Diaspora
• iPhone Application development

Networking & Server infrastructure:

• Open Solaris hosted ZFS ISCSI targets - drobo replacement project
• PF Firewalls and CARP for firewall redundancy on network
• Zmanda Backup Server and Client configuration
• RSync hackery
• Heartbeat service/node monitoring
• SNMP monitoring
• Virtualization/Hypervisor options: (Xenserver, VirtualBox, VMWare ESX(i), etc.)
• Site configuration white-papers like this one
• Tools to stress-testing web stack servers (security and load capacity) for production expectations pre-deployment
• Linux Certifications
• Linux login spec: document the login workflow and security stack implemented (starting with the adduser command)

Programming for Hardware and Robotics:

• concurrency revolution from a hardware perspective

Software related topics to study:

• AES encryption algorithm demo/explanation
• Statistical Analysis
• Bayesian Networks
• Artificial Intelligence
• Lisp (functional programming languages)
• Mordor - Fast Performance I/O and simple C++ library
• Regular Expressions - I need to spend some time burning these in...

What I read:

• http://reddit.com/r/programming/
• http://www.openstack.org/blog/
• http://www.eucalyptus.com/blog
• http://aws.typepad.com/
• http://planet.ubuntu.com/
• https://community.jboss.org/blogs/
• http://truthhappens.redhat.com/
• http://opensource.com/
• http://www.datastax.com/blog
• http://planet.couchdb.org/

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• http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
• http://yieldthought.com/
• http://www.mostlymaths.net/
• http://sheddingbikes.com/
• http://bionicspirit.com/
• http://rackerhacker.com/
• http://steveblank.com
• http://www.startuplessonslearned.com
• http://stackgeek.com/blog/

Twitter: @ruebenramirez ...and now for the disclaimer:  The opinions of the blog posts contained here are my own opinion and should not be considered the opinion(s) of anyone or anything that I'm associated with, including clients and/or companies I work for.