Atlhack

Alex’s going-away-hack.

Rob
– doing CSS with Kelly
– going to karaoke
Kelly
– searching for jobs
– updating her online resume
– using Firebug!
Erik
– didn’t install Ruby 1.9.1
– playing WoW
Sonali
– fixing production issues for work
– survived layoffs
Tejus
– working on CSS refactoring
– survived layoffs
Emily
– learning HAML
– finding her way around a Sinatra session
Molly
– reading her RSS on Emily’s computer
– finished knitting her tank top
Alex
– working on passive-voice-detector with NLTK
– has it mostly working
Mark
– trying out new Mac software
– working on a processing sketch for Corkbird

We discussed exercise, CouchDB & MongoDB & Lucene, that bridge at Marietta St and Jones Ave, shooting lasers from your hips, Encyclopedia Brown fan-fic.

Alex Rae:
– doing some software engineering management planning things
Bill:
– wrote some lyrics
– wrote a thing which is almost an essay and posted on the internet
Erik:
– fixed his RSpec’s
– prepared for a conference call on Monday that didn’t happen
John:
– started a new project “meal-o-rific”
– meal-planning-grocery-shopping-recipe-tracking app
– almost got it talking with google calendar
Alex Rudnick:
– reviewing more CIKM papers
Lindsey:
– learning about monads from a category theory perspective
– is the co-author on a paper, so now she has to help edit it
Rob:
– playing with OSC, frustration
– drew a diagram on how to play a film on several screens at once
Mark:
– reading about pattern formation
– switching to Firefox from Safari so that he can use Zotero

This hack was on Tuesday 7 July 2009, right when you might imagine it would have been! Pardon for the delay in posting the notes.

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Rob:
– write a Technique article about Michael Jackson
– reading about the Dreamcast, for unknown reasons
– OK, really reading about games that feature MJ
– headed off to sing karaoke

Bill:
– tried to write some lyrics
– came up with some about being creative, and also Neil Armstrong and how reclusive he is.
– installed Chrome for Linux

Emily:
– read rss
– looked at stackoverflow

John:
– wrote tests for his webgame
– also read stackoverflow

Tripp:
– showed up!
– chatted with Alex
– discussing REST (etc) with John

Mark:
– made a sketch with Processing
– added notifications to Corkbird so he knows when somebody signs up

Alex:
– looking at a paper for CIKM
– excited about reviewing papers (woo!)
– talking about GWT with Tripp