Atlhack

Dez: (new member)
- Rails programmer
- started as a designer
- working on a Basecamp-like app
- wants something bigger than the default Rails scaffolding
- - but smaller than ActiveScaffold
- talking with Ashok and Erik about hosting providers
Zach:
- working on BigNum class in java
- talking with Alex about two’s complement
- figuring out how to draw transparent rectangles in swing
- - using that knowledge for the speed reader
Alex:
- looking at Logo
- - it’s an acceptable LISP
- - wrote a scheme version of this logo program
- went to OSCON
- learning Haskell
Lindsey:
- went to OSCON
- packed all her stuff
- - leaving Thursday from Portland to Indiana
- might be learning Haskell
Ashok:
- memorization app
- reading hitchiker’s guide
- trying to run call of duty in wine, didn’t work for him
- had a dream about fonts and OCR
- - next project will be about OCR for entering medical forms
Mark:
- working on geomerative
- - fixed a bug this weekend (that he had created)
- needs to get the courage to write the meshing code
- made bagels from Yuna’s recipe
Erik:
- adding RSpec’s for his work project
- talking about migrations, his model-based permission system

erik:
- posting a new rails plugin
- - acts_as_referenced
mark:
- trying to make the jaxer/appcelerator thing work
- working on the new atlhack.org blog

- icfp 08
- - alex,lindsey
- - - hacked in scheme, upstairs at monroe dr
- - - learned how to do sockets in scheme
- - - lindsey got lots of traffic to her blog due to icfp mailing-list posts
- - -
- - erik, mark, martin
- - - hacked in python, used mercurial, at the kitchen table on monroe dr
- - - wrote PID and lots of geometry, used twisted
- - - mercurial was a disaster, in part due to us trying to push to a shared repository (with an ssh url)
alex:
- datamining class continues
- going to oscon next week
lindsey:
- did inheritance in scheme for the first time (during icfp)
- going to oscon next week
rob:
- played with sketchup, going to plan his room in 3d
erik:
- configuring vim
- redesigning his blog, going minimalist
mark:
- restyling his blog

sonali:
- new choices quilt beta, testing
erik:
- wrote a plugin http://subwindow.com/articles/22
- rode his bike to octane
tejus:
- fixing skyblox/yahoo-maps/loading-order
mark:
- helping tejus with skyblox/yahoo-maps/loading-order
- contributed to geomerative http://github.com/rikrd/geomerative/tree/ea03e4af61fe3721453e2b9609a91798dd4231c0
- created a patch that allows pyd/celerid to run on os x http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=20219
lindsey:
- hanging out in atlanta
- seven problems away from finishing chapter one of sicp
- created a programming challenge http://lindseykuper.livejournal.com/265703.html
alex:
- looking into scheme
- srfi, a bigger standard library (some from olin shivers) http://srfi.schemers.org/
- gave a talk to children at gatech
- discovered ‘disassemble’ command in lisp
- did lindsey’s challenge, in python and scheme
ashok:
- excited about freenet, anonymous + distributed storage networks
- providing html + dreamweaver help to alice

we were here, but we failed to record what we did, sorry

Lindsey:
- 3 work days left (!) before summer vacation
- - down to 2 things (!) on The Todo List That Refused To Die
- signed lease (!) on an apartment in Bloomington!
- will probably be chipping away at SICP for all eternity
Alex:
- doing a little bit of homework from http://www.stats202.com, learning R
- R is pretty cool.
- been reading about data mining, for that same class
- working on the OLPC, tried to get Ubuntu going with fairly
complicated instructions
- got Debian going with “olpc-update debian-big”. May install Edubuntu
with similar command.
Stuart:
- going to Switzerland soon
- working in the cleanroom
- - (we watched him from http://grover.mirc.gatech.edu/cameras/ )
Martin:
- apartment finder
- - automatically deleting listings
- - the bay area is full of scams
- - where houses for sale are posted as cheap rentals
Mark:
- published Appcelerator Routes
Erik:
- writing rails plugins