21 Sept 2006, more of two tall geeks
Since Last Week:
Eric- sings the praises of Rails. For Dreamforce!
Graham- attended High Zero 2006 festival in Baltimore!
-playing with fruity loops.
Tonight’s Plan:
Eric- chill out on the internets.
Graham- write emails to chuck-users list.
Tonights Reality:
Graham- after trying cpreprocessor unsuccessfully,
uses m4 to hard code sample library paths in chuck.
(m4 for windows)
-did not actually write emails to chuck list.
7 September 2006 – loud music and tall geeky boys
Since Last Week-
Erik- implementing a ticketing system at work.
Graham- started working on a limiter->dynamics processor for chuck.
This Week-
Erik- getting history.js to work with lightbox (a photo display app).
Graham- add necessary controls to dyna.
-make some chuck file examples that demonstate each mode.
Erik thinks the colo idea is good, worried about bandwidth. 316 Terabytes!
What will we do if the server needs reboot? Call or website interface?
What about DNS servers?
24 August 2006 – atlhack reunions
in Korea, people eat the roe directly out of the sea urchin (uni)
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1621521
also we met Maya, who is a biotech lab tech at Tech
Since Last Week:
Matt- finished his chapter (Picky Eating is a Moral Failing) for Food and Philosophy.
http://www.thehangedman.com/philosophy/papers/html/picky-eating/
Graham- the laptop battle was postponed. But they released audicle sources!
-restarted SWIMM and started working with Michael.
Alex- more SWIMMing, setup a svn server, ramping up to work on Jess.
-thought really hard about distributing functional languages over a network, had a good conversation with B. Dorn.
-wants to rewrite it in python.
Erik- using Ruby on Rails for hacking SalesForce, maintaining a local mirror of a database.
Plan for This Week:
Erik- fix the bug in his AJAX history.js (provides back and forward functionality within AJAX UIs).
Matt- will hack Frump the Turtle with photoshop.
Alex- will start on porting the Electronic Bard to python.
Graham- will hack the audicle to display "later" – a relative time.
This Week’s Reality:
Erik- released an alpha of history.js on subwindow.com, complete with an article.
Matt- colored a page of Frump the turtle.
Alex- made a class skeleton for python Electronic Bard.
-discussed Electronic Sudoko with Zach from computer camp.
Graham- made the changes, trying to get the Audicle-global keystroke to work.
3 August 2006 – new members!
music – a playlist with ample Mates of State
Mike Tria (meta-code.com) – getthere -> code generation startup MetaJ (applied frequently to VoiceXML) -> wrote a clickstream tracking application -> compucredit -> Unisys (open source architect). Will be presenting an overview of migrations (Sun -> Linux, Mainframe->Linux, application migrations) at LinuxWorld.
Writing a video game in Java. The Philosopher (like a Link to the Past) – it’s a game for programmers. Tuned heap and garbage collector. Custom interface using SWT with openGL functionality.
Wants to stay technical (an architect position), wants to start a software shop in Atlanta.
His company is looking for J2EE or .NET architects, and ready to hire.
(Mike suggests Graham read latest Comm-ACM on audio processing)
Mike will send his ideas doc for consumption of all.
Robin – hates the CompE department at Tech. Hard to get jobs without a graduate degree. Programs cable boxes in C for Nagra. Wants to learn Java.
Since Last Week:
Vinny- published source code for SwixUL (sf.net/projects/swixul)
Graham- modified Mused analysis code to work with later version of Bass.NET
Mike- modifying blojsom to use his clickstream tracking
This Week:
Mike- looking at rules-engines (JBoss-rules) for work. making an interface layer from JBoss rules to arbitrary webservices. (got his slipstream rules to work, will be gone for 3 weeks)
Graham- going to parse XML data about songs.
Vinny- mess around with pygame to do mouse tracking and gesture recognition
Robin- writing a bash script to copy a file tree with inclusion / exclusion (something like rsync)
Discussions:
license discovery tool –
mp3.com fire sale
Google ATL moving to Tech Square?
27 July 2006 – another social night
Vinny -tired, preparing for his move
Graham -helped by Vinny on audio editor design
Alex- doing another camp!
Andrew- back from GHP. knows much of the JFK assassination
20 July 2006 – last of the atlhackers?
SInce Last Week:
Vinny- started a SourceForge project SwixUL, attempt to take SwixML and make it XUL compatible. Optimi agreed to release it open source, which is good.
Graham- Wikipedia! AJAX hacking for the chuck album.
Alex- playing chess and SWIMMing.
This week:
Discussions, in person and electronic.
Graham played with the new chuck+audicle!
13 July 2006 – boulderhack or bust
Since Last Week:
Vinny -signed on to a mapping startup in Denver! He will be leaving us and moving onwards and upwards. 🙁
Graham -design prototype for collaborative chuck website.
This Week:
Vinny has recommended Prototype (docs quick guide api style doc) and Scriptaculous for basic AJAX-style js.
6 July 2006 – just me
Since Last Week:
Graham -tiger 10.4 installed on mac, not booting atm.
-reading a fun book on wavelets.
Alex -trying to improve at chess.
This Week:
Vinny -visiting a startup in Denver.
Graham -designing tables for ckalbum webapp, connecting to them in php.
Titus -writing an article about OpenLaszlo for PHP Architect.
(He suggests using it for the chuck collaboration site: tutorial)
-is interested in prosper.com, a P2P lending site.
29 June 2006 – colo + controversy
Since Last Week:
Vinny -startup work on a C++ performance coding problem.
-made a prototype for Inliner, his cross-platform outlining application.
Graham -putting together VirtualPC images for testing.
Luke -got an apartment!
-started working on a non-forking daemon to fix fork-bombed geh.
This Week:
Vinny -packaging Inliner.
-suggests Graham and Alex integrate SWIMM with Songbird.
Graham -installing phpdev article to work on collaboration site.
Luke -geh admin issues.
22 June 2006 – embroidery social night
Since Last Week:
Vinny -work for his 3rd startup.
Luke -shorted out his MythTV system, then fixed it.
Alex -teaching high school teachers to teach CS.
Martin -needs to work on ChucK networking!
Kate -passed her physics test!
Emily -she has a class schedule and a parking space.
This week:
Graham -basic pitch following synth in SC.
Peter and Mia came to visit!
Met Will Fisher, who does Psych-out show at WREK!