Hackfest 1011001 Mortem

by Mark Luffel

    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

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