Hackfest 1101011

Submitted by MarkLuffel on Wed, 2008-02-20 01:03. :: A Boring Default

Martin:
- worked on google maps / craigslist mashup,
- learned django (routing and views),
- read about wsgi, likes that
Erik:
- got a counter-offer from his company,
- is staying in Atlanta!!!!
- tweaked design of aloe
Alex:
- meaning to make some blogposts:
- about distributed source control
- and about setting up ubuntu to do (highly impractical) academic computing,
- excited about crowdsourcing,
- will make a a game that collects crowdsourced-esque data,
- saw presentation by "esp" game creator (Louis von Ahn)
Lindsey:
- learned how to map files over ssh
- did situps
- "stopped putting important stuff in methods that people are going to override anayways"
Zack:
- writing java in xcode, ditching it for eclipse,
- robot ships tuesday,
- working on the autonomous mode,
- drive code is written, need to test
Tejus:
- solved the integration issue with appcelerator and yahoo maps,
- required weird asynchronous hacks,
- adding scripts tags, callbacks
Sonali:
- playing with using amazon web services,
- going to use web services in her next project
Mark:
- figuring out how to make a TextMate bundle,
- (his coworkers are eclipse adverse)
Gabi:
- reading "The Secret Life of Bees"