]> http://atlhack.org/blog en http://atlhack.org/node/280 <p>Dez: (new member)<br /> - Rails programmer<br /> - started as a designer<br /> - working on a Basecamp-like app<br /> - wants something bigger than the default Rails scaffolding<br /> - - but smaller than ActiveScaffold<br /> - talking with Ashok and Erik about hosting providers<br /> Zach:<br /> - working on BigNum class in java<br /> - talking with Alex about two's complement<br /> - figuring out how to draw transparent rectangles in swing<br /> - - using that knowledge for the speed reader<br /> Alex:<br /> - looking at Logo<br /> - - it's an acceptable LISP<br /> - - wrote a scheme version of <a href="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/logo-sample.html">this logo program</a><br /> - went to OSCON<br /> - learning Haskell<br /> Lindsey:<br /> - went to OSCON<br /> - packed all her stuff<br /> - - leaving Thursday from Portland to Indiana<br /> - might be learning Haskell<br /> Ashok:<br /> - memorization app<br /> - reading hitchiker's guide<br /> - trying to run call of duty in wine, didn't work for him<br /> - had a dream about fonts and OCR<br /> - - next project will be about OCR for entering medical forms<br /> Mark:<br /> - working on geomerative<br /> - - <a href="http://github.com/markluffel/geomerative/tree/b5f91bf59ab35f498695c30ba10f0d6861bc74e4">fixed a bug</a> this weekend (that he had created)<br /> - needs to get the courage to write the meshing code<br /> - made bagels from Yuna's recipe<br /> Erik:<br /> - adding RSpec's for his work project<br /> - talking about migrations, his model-based permission system</p> Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:53:41 -0400 http://atlhack.org/node/279 <p>erik:<br /> - posting a new rails plugin<br /> - - <a href="http://subwindow.com/articles/23">acts_as_referenced</a><br /> mark:<br /> - trying to make the jaxer/appcelerator thing work<br /> - working on the new atlhack.org blog</p> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:12:04 -0400 http://atlhack.org/node/278 <p>- icfp 08<br /> - - alex,lindsey<br /> - - - hacked in scheme, upstairs at monroe dr<br /> - - - learned how to do sockets in scheme<br /> - - - lindsey got lots of traffic to her blog due to icfp mailing-list posts<br /> - - -<br /> - - erik, mark, martin<br /> - - - hacked in python, used mercurial, at the kitchen table on monroe dr<br /> - - - wrote <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller">PID</a> and lots of geometry, used twisted<br /> - - - mercurial was a disaster, in part due to us trying to push to a shared repository (with an ssh url)<br /> alex:<br /> - datamining class continues<br /> - going to oscon next week<br /> lindsey:<br /> - did inheritance in scheme for the first time (during icfp)<br /> - going to oscon next week<br /> rob:<br /> - played with sketchup, going to plan his room in 3d<br /> erik:<br /> - configuring vim<br /> - redesigning <a href="http://subwindow.com">his blog</a>, going minimalist<br /> mark:<br /> - restyling <a href="http://shiftpop.blogspot.com">his blog</a></p> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:11:37 -0400 http://atlhack.org/node/277 <p>sonali:<br /> - new choices quilt beta, testing<br /> erik:<br /> - wrote a plugin http://subwindow.com/articles/22<br /> - rode his bike to octane<br /> tejus:<br /> - fixing skyblox/yahoo-maps/loading-order<br /> mark:<br /> - helping tejus with skyblox/yahoo-maps/loading-order<br /> - contributed to geomerative http://github.com/rikrd/geomerative/tree/ea03e4af61fe3721453e2b9609a91798dd4231c0<br /> - created a patch that allows pyd/celerid to run on os x http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=20219<br /> lindsey:<br /> - hanging out in atlanta<br /> - seven problems away from finishing chapter one of sicp<br /> - created a programming challenge http://lindseykuper.livejournal.com/265703.html<br /> alex:<br /> - looking into scheme<br /> - srfi, a bigger standard library (some from olin shivers) http://srfi.schemers.org/<br /> - gave a talk to children at gatech<br /> - discovered 'disassemble' command in lisp<br /> - did lindsey's challenge, in python and scheme<br /> ashok:<br /> - excited about freenet, anonymous + distributed storage networks<br /> - providing html + dreamweaver help to alice</p> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:10:16 -0400 http://atlhack.org/node/276 <p>we were here, but we failed to record what we did, sorry</p> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:10:11 -0400 http://atlhack.org/node/275 <p>Lindsey:<br /> - 3 work days left (!) before summer vacation<br /> - - down to 2 things (!) on The Todo List That Refused To Die<br /> - signed lease (!) on an apartment in Bloomington!<br /> - will probably be chipping away at SICP for all eternity<br /> Alex:<br /> - doing a little bit of homework from <a href="http://www.stats202.com">http://www.stats202.com</a>, learning R<br /> - R is pretty cool.<br /> - been reading about data mining, for that same class<br /> - working on the OLPC, tried to get Ubuntu going with fairly<br /> complicated instructions<br /> - got Debian going with "olpc-update debian-big". May install Edubuntu<br /> with similar command.<br /> Stuart:<br /> - going to Switzerland soon<br /> - working in the cleanroom<br /> - - (we watched him from <a href="http://grover.mirc.gatech.edu/cameras/">http://grover.mirc.gatech.edu/cameras/</a> )<br /> Martin:<br /> - apartment finder<br /> - - automatically deleting listings<br /> - - the bay area is full of scams<br /> - - where houses for sale are posted as cheap rentals<br /> Mark:<br /> - published <a href="http://appceleratordemo.appspot.com/routes">Appcelerator Routes</a><br /> Erik:<br /> - writing rails plugins</p> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:09:45 -0400 http://atlhack.org/node/274 <p>Notes!</p> <p>Lindsey:<br /> - 8 work days left before summer vacation<br /> - - down to 6 things on The Todo List That Refused To Die<br /> - found an apartment in Bloomington!<br /> - *still* chipping away at SICP</p> <p>Martin:<br />- working on apparent (http://apparentaa.appspot.com/)<br />- that's about it</p> <p>Ashok:<br />- working on study guide flash-card app<br />- on own server<br />- lots of reading to understand algorithms: general techniques to optimize people's retention</p> <p>Alex:<br />- looked &quot;A Fast Algorithm for Learning a Ranking Function from Large-Scale Data Sets&quot;<br />- it's got a lot of math<br />- started working on online course: http://www.stats202.com<br />- little bit of Scheme with Lindsey<br />- dithering around on the internets</p> <p>Mark:<br />- hiking the AT</p> <p>Humza:<br />- lots of rock climbing, hands are tired<br />- thinking about getting into Python</p> A Boring Default Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:15:45 -0400 http://atlhack.org/node/273 <p>New Member: Dustin<br /> - went to school at <a href="http://www.risd.edu/">RISD</a><br /> - rock-climbs with Humza<br /> - joking about a movie where:<br /> - - a man who burns other people's copies of comics to make his copy more rare<br /> - making Flash animations for Intel + Beijing Olympic ads<br /> - partway through watching tekkonkinkreet</p> <p>Drew:<br /> - trying to get on the network<br /> - getting into <a href="http://amqp.org">AMQP</a><br /> - - similar to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Message_Service">JMS</a> (which he uses at work)<br /> Lindsey:<br /> - 13 work days left before summer vacation<br /> - - down to 8 things on The Todo List That Refused To Die<br /> - looking for an apartment in Bloomington!<br /> - still chipping away at SICP<br /> - - trying to finish chapter 1 exercises by the end of the month<br /> Martin:<br /> - working on Tyrus's "flipping coasts" app<br /> - - for keeping in touch with people after he moves<br /> Erik:<br /> - wrote code for adding <a href="http://github.com/subwindow/negative-captcha">negative captcha</a>s to rails apps<br /> - not as excited by phusion passenger as tejus is<br /> Rob:<br /> - configuring his (thinkpad-mac) to do japanese (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotoeri">kotoeri</a>) input<br /> - �ん����<br /> Alex:<br /> - reading Graham's DAFX paper<br /> - can't do classloading (which jython needs) in an applet<br /> - - wrote a blog post about it<br /> - - to which Frank W. (big Jython guy at Sun)<br /> - wrote some schema<br /> - thinking metrics for how good a regression fit is<br /> Ashok:<br /> - says that Knuth doesn't believe in unit-tests<br /> Mike:<br /> - researching how to get high-speed internet to his rural small-town<br /> - - so that his younger brother can be part of internetdom<br /> Mark:<br /> - reading Graham's DAFX paper<br /> - chattering</p> A Boring Default Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:50:54 -0400 http://atlhack.org/node/272 <p>New Member: Dan<br /> - industrial engineering student at tech<br /> - building an app for airline scheduling<br /> - asking about jsp,php,java,ruby-on-rails</p> <p>Zach<br /> - working on a reading aid for ADD folks<br /> - displays a file and highlights groups of words at a time<br /> - - to prevent distraction<br /> - - it's written in swing<br /> - - based on ideas from a speed-reading app<br /> Tejus<br /> - worked on server config for choices-quilts<br /> - installed ruby on centos 4<br /> Sonali<br /> - working on the new rails version of choices-quilts<br /> - having trouble with the "will_paginate" plugin<br /> Lindsey<br />  - went to my college reunion in Iowa<br /> - - saw family, saw friends, saw Alex, <a href="http://dan-o-m.livejournal.com/57099.html">video blogged</a> about it<br />  - learned about the law of <a href="http://del.icio.us/lindseykuper/conservation_of_ream">"conservation of ream"</a> from my Harvey Mudd<br /> alum housemate<br />  - won <a href="http://code.google.com/p/narorumo/source/browse/trunk/narorumo/narorumo.scm">NaRoRuMo 2008</a><br />  - finally making headway on SICP again; end of chapter 1 in sight<br /> Rob<br /> - being quiet<br /> Martin<br /> - working on apparent (the apartment finder)<br /> - going to keep the birthdate of the craigslist posts<br /> - - rather than repull listings from the database at each step<br /> Mark<br /> - researching datetime formatting and parsing<br /> - - found a bunch of libraries in python/perl/javascript<br /> - is going to write some code for parsing English text<br /> - - representing repeated date events (like, every Tuesday from 8 to midnight)<br /> Erik<br /> - maintaining code, yay?<br /> Alex<br /> - working on the jython-in-an-applet-talking-to-javascript project<br /> - - can call from js to applet, and back<br /> - - but keeps getting security exceptions</p> <p>Other people at Octane: Humza, Ashok, Ashok's brother (Alok), Samir, Alice, Mike, Dan<br /> Alok is taking the JES class with Monica Sweat<br /> Discovered that Ashok (and Alok) are not Indian, but Nepali</p> A Boring Default Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:51:33 -0400 http://atlhack.org/node/271 <p>Two New Members!<br /> Ashok (with a silent "H")<br /> - co-worker of Humza and Cary Hull<br /> - making a website for studying/memorizing<br /> - - will use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition">spaced repetition</a> to pick flashcards to show<br /> Mike<br /> - co-worker of Ashok<br /> - learning AppEngine<br /> - - looking at using <a href="http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/">Exhibition</a> with AppEngine</p> <p>Scott Driscoll (<a href="http://atlhack.org/node/235">previously</a>)<br /> - writing Matlab code for a freelance project<br /> - has been selling robotics kits to Make magazine<br /> Lindsey<br /> - work: daily insane perl refactoring sprees<br /> - running: daily<br /> - - on track to hit 100 miles for the month<br /> - should perhaps consider occasionally doing things other than work and running<br /> Alex<br /> - stretch goal: put a python REPL into a browser using jython and an applet<br /> - - talked with Lex Spoon about this<br /> - talking with Zach about compilers and byte-code interpreters<br /> - running daily<br /> Rob<br /> - wrote an outline of making the wiibow<br /> - - with glovepie + puredata<br /> - organizing his workflow paradigm desktop<br /> Martin<br /> - hacking on <a href="http://apparentaa.appspot.com">apparent</a><br /> - - improving query performance by indexing apartments <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash">geohash</a> (not <a href="http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing">the xkcd geohash</a>)<br /> Mark<br /> - trying to make Processing allow Java 1.5 syntax<br /> - - getting segfaults<br /> - should have stuck to playing with geomerative<br /> - biked to Stone Mountain yesterday<br /> - made tiny animations in Flash and Photoshop</p> A Boring Default Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:00:48 -0400 http://atlhack.org/node/270 <p>Erik:<br /> - used jQuery for ALOE, impressed<br /> - needed client-side autocompleter<br /> - "the jQuery plugin idea is very nearly perfect"<br /> Lindsey:<br />  - helped throw a surprise birthday party<br />  - went to the Obama rally in Portland with 75,000 people (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtN3hsITCok">video</a>)<br />  - voted<br />  - did a little more SICP, has been on a plateau for a while, though<br />  - last day at job will be June 27 (but certainly not counting, or anything)<br /> Alex:<br /> - sudoku solver<br /> - flashes of love for statically typed languages<br /> - app for keeping track of lines-written-per-day<br /> Martin:<br /> - got the apartment finder running on appengine<br /> - bulk uploader for pushing craigslist data into datastore<br /> - trouble with db.TextProperty<br /> Rob:<br /> - stumbling towards objective-c<br /> - - going to make 1337 iPhone apps that do musical things<br /> - air violin, wiibow<br /> - at panopticon-esque job, did web surfing in lynx<br /> Mark:<br /> - getting familiar with geomerative<br /> - nowhere near "materializing" fonts yet<br /> - needs to make some additional geometric datastructures</p> A Boring Default Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:17:31 -0400 http://atlhack.org/node/269 <p>Humza:<br /> - went rockclimbing for the first and second times<br /> - it's zen, sections of rock are "problems" that you "solve"<br /> Lindsey:<br /> - secretly: went on a secret journey, that nobody knows about,<br /> because it's secret<br /> - calculated the hundred millionth Fibonacci number!:<br /> http://code.google.com/p/narorumo/wiki/ReallyBigFibonacciNumbers<br /> - can't stop thinking about integer sequences<br /> Martin:<br /> - started posting the "apparent" housing finder to appengine,<br /> - made it all ajaxy<br /> - started designing an icon (to rule the world)<br /> Lauryn:<br /> - catching up on work<br /> - reading "do androids dream of electric sheep"<br /> - got a bicycle and a haircut<br /> Alex:<br /> - sudoku solver<br /> - gearsing, going to use svn revision number instead of md5<br /> - hung out in portland with lindsey<br /> - did math together, from sicp<br /> Erik:<br /> - got rid of appcelerator from <a href="http://skribit.com/">skribit</a><br /> - widget went from 300Kb to 6Kb<br /> Mark:<br /> - using <a href="http://www.ricardmarxer.com/processing/geomerative/documentation/">geomerative</a> to render fonts,<br /> - found and fixed a geomerative/mac issue,<br /> - is going to "materialize" fonts: make them melt like wax, inflate like ballons, etc</p> A Boring Default Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:17:43 -0400 http://atlhack.org/node/268 <p>Mark:<br /> - sketching in processing<br /> Martin:<br /> - writing javascript for apparent<br /> Alex:<br /> - impemention knuth's dancing links algorithm (for sudoku)</p> A Boring Default Fri, 09 May 2008 12:07:05 -0400 http://atlhack.org/node/267 <p>Alex:<br /> - python sudoku solver on google appengine<br /> Lindsey:<br />  - went to the <a href="http://www.stumptowncomics.com">Stumptown Comics Fest</a> (ed. beautiful website!)<br /> - - bought comics<br /> - - listened to interesting talks<br /> - - posted some <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lindseykuper/tags/stumptowncomicsfest2008/">pictures and choice quotations</a><br /> - announced my impending resignation from my job<br /> - solved a problem in some perl code at work:<br /> - - two bugs were interacting in such a way as to make each other invisible<br /> - - because data was being duplicated in places where it wasn't supposed to be<br /> - - and the duplication of information made the bug harder to track down<br /> - - for the same reasons that non-normalized databases are vulnerable to errors<br /> - and now I have a project idea: a Data::Doctor module<br /> - - that looks through people's data structures<br /> - - for telltale signs of redundancy and encourages good data hygiene<br /> Erik:<br /> - ansley park hexagonal tiles add flavor to 8-mile runs<br /> - looking for new residence<br /> Martin:<br /> - worked on "apparent" - the apartment finder<br /> - walked mark through installing django,setuptools,gcc,simplejson on "atlanta"<br /> Rob:<br /> - has OS X running on his thinkpad<br /> - rediscovering the command line<br /> - installing kernel extension and crossing-fingers<br /> - getting Wiimote running (maybe DarwiinRemote)<br /> Mark:<br /> - made <a href="http://www.diatomaton.com/2008/instructionset/4/">conceptual art</a>, <a href="http://instructionset.org">for instructionset</a></p> A Boring Default Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:18:07 -0400 http://atlhack.org/node/266 <p>New Member: Megan<br /> - student at SCAD-Atlanta<br /> - - roommate of Anna Marie<br /> - designs clothes<br /> - - gothic lolita and other japanese fashion<br /> - has a ganguro friend in alabama</p> <p>What we've been doing<br /> Megan:<br /> - translating blogs<br /> - writing midterms<br /> Anna Marie:<br /> - midterms<br /> Erik:<br /> - tried five things, ended up reverting all of them<br /> - - "i guess my head's not very clear"<br /> - added a calendar to aloe<br /> - - for bills and invoices<br /> Martin:<br /> - recentering the apartment-finder map<br /> Mark:<br /> - released a new version of the Eclipse plugin at work<br /> - writing pseudocode for an asynchronous language for building interfaces<br /> Alex:<br /> - sudoku solver in python<br /> - - his python is better than two years ago<br /> - gears-ing his app at work</p> A Boring Default Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:18:20 -0400