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Hackfest 11110 Mortem

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

13 April 2006 – "many new people"

since last week + everything else:

isiah (new)
-grad studying business intelligence at GSU
-has worked for equifax writing assembly score code
-works and has worked on several data mining projects

robert! (new) – rmccurdy.com
-from the weather channel
-automated timestamp date verification using scripted gOCR
-wants a job in network security – email him at rmccurdyjob@yahoo.com
-likes reason and tracker software

john (new)
-major work projects:
-decoding fighter pilot network messages to human readable format (at GTRI)
-using PlaceLab + wifi for location on portables
-cellphone based location schedule learning w/ Jeremy
-working for Windows Mobile this summer
-side projects he’ll send to me by email

emily (new)
-email and myspace at octane
-going to study divinity at Candler theology school
-wants an even mix of spirituality and behavioral techniques in counseling
-reading, softball, art & music appreciation, blogging

alex
-groovy scripts to sox convert and tag mp3s
-registered for classes
-introduced Vinny to Milhouse, the AquaMOOSE poetry bot
(he has written two poetry robots!)

luke
-google "luke is retarded"
-worked on caching style – assume static unless it needs to be dynamic
-eclipse-rhino – evaluation goes to standard console, and added a JS alert

vinny (on his 2nd startup)
-got rails dev environment running
-implemented a custom attribute accessor
-started writing a document on why you should learn lisp + how to do it at work
-reading A Security Kernel Based on Lambda Calculus – Rees ’96

graham
-reworking my workhorse arpeggiation code scale.ck
-SWIMM debugging arrrgh
-waiting for details of potential future employer

erik
-redid subwindow.com
-wp_thin – a minimal AJAX-safe wordpress renderer
-subwey – wrote a guided websurfing client

Hackfest 1110 Mortem

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

Today’s notes are informal, but action-packed!

Luke commits to starting part-time technology business.
Vinny is doing an audio podcast. He will put the link here.
J knits a pink hat.
Graham still trying to fix his clocks code. Invisible clocks don’t work because somehow text properties are off.

Vinny is working on Gmaps schools application – running live on rails.

Luke helps Graham with various emacs snags.
Helpful emacs commands: f10 gets you to the menu.

Luke found the page tables for his handheld coding.
He wants to get an idea for the segment sizes and how it shows up in virtual address space.
He wants to put the kernel in a well-understood place so he is just interacting with linear memory.

atlhack flickr tag

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

I tagged all of my flickr photos with the tag "atlhack".  No one else is currently using this tag, as you probably guessed.  If you upload atlHack related photos, please tag them!  This will make them all show up at http://flickr.com/photos/tags/atlhack/

Hackfest 1011 Mortem

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

Nov 3, 2005 – Hackfest 1011

Notes: Next hackfest Octane is serving beer.

from m-w.com:
Main Entry: whole·some
Pronunciation: 'hOl-s&m
Function: adjective
1 : promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit
2 : promoting health of body
3 a : sound in body, mind, or morals b : having the simple health or vigor of normal domesticity
4 a : based on well-grounded fear : PRUDENT <a wholesome respect for the law> b : SAFE <it wouldn’t be wholesome for you to go down there — Mark Twain>

Since last week:

Ben-
Fixed the Settings bean. Fixed other minor bugs, but Yannis made him cry, bitter tears.

Graham-
Worked on fixing glitches in output, not done. Worked on making Runtime.exec calls in SWIMM.
They don’t seem to be returning.

Vinny-
Helped Graham debug. Hosted parents. Mouse mvt and performance stats on OGRE + Commotion – 80 fps.
Fixed nasty XCode plugin bug – subclass responsibility error.

Luke-
Fixed his website – rss feeds went to blog posts. Kernel framebuffer debugging.

Titus (remote)-
I finished the PIC article this week.

Plan for Today:

Ben-
Get Intellisense working, capability built into NetBeans.

Luke-
Work on cleaning up website more, plam programming.

Graham-
Continue to debug writeWithSpeedup. Fix Runtime.exec calls. Luke suggests quiet option.

Vinny-
Working on Google Maps application.

Titus-
Working on a filter for Wikitext –> Markdown. Basically, because I’m trying to convert my blog to WordPress.
I’m using the Text_Wiki PEAR class, and modifying it with a ‘markdown’ target.
by modifying this: http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=Text_Wiki&page=HomePage

Today’s Reality:

Ben-
Discussed religion.

Luke-
Discussed religion, configured kernel. MythTV is awesome.

Vinny-
Rails is very slow on the server.

Graham-
Successfully debugged Runtime.exec, Vinny helped with glitches.

Hackfest 1010 Mortem

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Since Last Week:

Ben-
    Added interactive invoke main method. Ran up with issues, but it’s usable.
    Still has issues with Settings in JavaBeans. TAs will start using his autograder in mere days.
Graham-
    Speeding up a pop song seems to work, but my output has glitches.
    The glitches happen even when you speed up by a factor of 1.0, which should in theory do an exact segment-by-segment copy. So the glitches come from an error somewhere in the process, above any errors that may be in the segmentation process.
Vinny-
    Wrote a small GMaps application for finding CS schools.
    Wants your support – workshopping support.
    Has started working on db support with Ruby on Rails.
    What is the most useful feature for you, applying to schools?
Titus-
    His Article is due Nov 1, it’s on doing PIC microcontroller sims in Linux.

Plan for Today:

Ben-
    Debug Settings object in JavaBeans.
Vinny-
    Leading discussion map app. Maybe gamey stuff in Commotion.
Graham-
    Refactor some of my segmentation, try to kill glitches.
Titus-
    Testing bleeding edge and fixing software GPSim, GPASM, SDCC, all to write an article.
Mike-
    Doing the school, math and linguistics.
Stephen-
    Nonlinear optimizations.

This Week’s Reality:

Graham-
    Stole music, chatted with Stephen and Mike, gave Vinny a use case. Suggested Dynamic Queries for CS Map.
Vinny-
    Installed rails, wrote caching scraper for college board. Collected use cases.
    Has compiled a document of several use cases for his systems.
Ben-
    Danced to the music, over and over and over again.
Titus-
    Working on his article, came up with examples. How to do interrupts (pushbutton), using the built-in timer. Should finish article this week.

Photos on Flickr

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

My recent digital camera purchase has resulted in a stream of photographs.  If they are good enough, they make it to my flickr account at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ynniv/.

Titus asked about saving photos from flicker – I think this was a ploy to get me to allow photo downloads.  The default setting is to allow other flickr members, but I have switched to the Communist setting of Anonymous.  Go forth and pirate my camera!

i am error

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

finally got my lazy arse to setup my althack.org account. thanks vinny!