With the holidays coming up, I've found some free time to eliminatefinish some of this year's projects, to make room for new ones. The project I've been working on the most is actually more than 2 years old, but had some technical snags as well as varying motivation levels.
One of the things I've been really curious about recently is Yahoo's Boomerang. I've been doing a lot to try and optimize javascript performance (and by extension, the whole front end), and so I thought I'd take a whack at implementing Boomerang to learn more about it.
One of the results of this is small (and still yet immature) library I've called django-beacon for the time being. It's basically an implementation of a boomerang beacon, and logs all its data to a sqlite database. It logs a user's Time-to-Interaction as well their bandwidth and latency. I'd like to do more with it, but I'd like to finish this other project first.
I also suspect it may be over engineering just a bit, at least on the scale I need it. Parsing server logs might be easier. I consider it 65% academic, and 35% useful.