New member
Rick
worked at togetherweb (acquired by Proficient, RobK’s old company),
part of atlanta tech community, y&r
SInce last time
Alex
very large victory at work, very happy
"you put the layout in the css, and you put the content in the html"
ie problem with absolute positioning,
solved with css expressions
has been running a lot
Erik
building network monitoring tools (pipaya: measures ping times)
Mark
went to samplemygoods.org (Erik et al’s forum)
generated (with python) sql files to canonicalize counties in database,
learned a bunch about postgres performance, internals,
read a paper by stonebraker of postgres fame
Tonight
Erik
restarting webapps that crashed when his virtual host crashed
Puyan
is learning F#
Alex
long phone call
Mark
chattering about databases, social networks, collaborative filtering
python has a module "colorsys" for doing colorspace conversions,
going to make colors __add__ able in NodeBox
Archive for September, 2007
Hackfest 1011001 Mortem
Thursday, September 27th, 2007Hackfest 1011000 Quite-Post Mortem
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007Since Last Time
Graham
visa issues
looked over notes for the lab he’s going to teach at pampel fabra
Alex
scrabblebot progress
sqlite working, really fast
at work: stopped mocking up, started making the real thing
Drew
twisted wars, a serious hack
"i’d write it the same way next time"
tcp ray leak
Cary
worked his ass off
Mark
lazy rasterization,
starbursts in processing,
used as window closing animation in wildfire
Devin
working on fuzzwich,
rolling out a new site soon,
bug-fixing, profiling
Tonight
Graham
refactor mused,
add features,
document how to add a new feature
Alex
scrabble board datastructure,
clever word placement
Drew
formencode in pylons, oilrig
maybe some reading,
communicating sequential processes (c.a.r hoare)
Mark
playing with shapes in nodebox
bcnhack 0
Tuesday, September 25th, 200725 Sept 2007 – bcn alone
Since Last Week-
Graham- moved to Spain
-got ChucKEx demo (GWT) working on computer
This Week’s Plans-
-connect it with a database
Hackfest 1010111 Mortem
Tuesday, September 11th, 200711 Sept 2007 – one last hack
Since Last Week-
Alex- started sketching a scrabble bot in python.
might reduce the problem to finding bags of words.
other ideas: online community for kids to teach kids programming, like Moose Crossing.
puzzle: walk a binary tree in order without using recursion
Sonali- db stuff at work.
Tejus- what have I been up to? writing data warehousing stuff. redesigning software.
Martin- working on osiris.
Stuart- research
Graham- wrote down instructions for adding new audio features to Mused. too complicated.
Mark- doing javascript and css for work. watched alex mclean’s new vocable synthesis
Devin- there are updates for fuzzwich
This Week’s Plans-
Alex- make a representation for bag of letters, figure out how to do matches.
Sonali- playing with her phone.
Tejus- playing with his phone, saying goodbye to me.
Martin- working on osiris, adding more image filters to it.
Stuart- music. mourning my departure
Graham- will try to simplify process of adding features to Mused
Mark- go running. all burnt out on computers
Hackfest 1010110 Mortem
Tuesday, September 4th, 20074 September 2007 – how do you spell funk?
Since Last Week –
Mark- attended three bday parties, not a clown
looked at pylons and storm, object relational mappers for python
going to do the digital music project with tyrus
making a pyweek game in piglets (scene2d)
Stuart- working on music, recorded Rock and Roll Hellhole
Graham- finished mixing The Smooth Galaxy
Tejus and Sonali- setting up the house, learning java and oracle stuff
Vinny- messing with xulrunner, for work and outliner
thinks it is better than swing
This Week-
Stuart- watching youtube videos and going to cleanroom
Mark- adding jumping to ShizWiz
Graham- want to add feature to Mused
Tejus and Sonali- drink tea and say bye to Graham
Rob- working on the Laptop of War