Christmas 2006 Season to-do list

I really love the fact that Christmas this year is on a Monday. This means that we actually get an extended weekend till Wednesday morning! It is a great opportunity to catchup on some things that I wanted to do but never had the time to start or to complete.

The following is a list of posts that are coming up before the end of this year / festive season:

• How to build an Eclipse-based application: we will be looking at Eclipse RCP (Richi Client Platform). I will expose part of my experience as well as other related topics I've been working on such as the integration of an existing SWING application into an Eclipse RCP product.

• How to transform an Apache OJB XML mapping repository to a Hibernate one: we will be touching a bit on topics related to ORM (Object Relational Mapping) frameworks, why developers should use them, their advantages and possibly their shortcomings.

Apart from those 2 topics, there are a few more that I would like to write about, mostly RoR related ones. But I believe a lot on the divide and conquer methodology. Therefore, I will first concentrate on getting the above-listed ones done and then I'll move forward to producing a few more tutorials.

I wonder what most people actually do during the festive season. For me, it's usually a time to catchup on things that I have left incomplete and to learn a bunch of new things: what else is there to do when you've got free time on your hands and you're a geek? :-P You tell me!

The question for you guys out there is: as a geeks, what's your plan for this holiday season?

Cheers!