Hackfest 1110001

Submitted by MarkLuffel on Thu, 2008-03-27 14:50. :: A Boring Default

Kelley
- got a new macbook
- interviewed a priestess for the next creative loafing
- interview with mayor slash funeral directory to be published tomorrow
- a little bit in love with the XO laptop
Graham
- met with b.w.thompson in Barcelona
- working on paper for DAFX in Finland
- fixed a bug today
- - which hopefully yields great glory and trip to Finland
Erik
- just stuff
- blogged a rant on subwindow
- got a bunch of comments
- retracted rant
Martin
- working on dimwit (code editor written in D and python)
- making windows splittable
Alex
- finished reading Mythical Man-Month, still reading sicp
- playing with the OLPC
- got excited about emulating a Mac Plus, was running mini vMac
- -fun but not long-term productive
- got even more excited about NLTK
- - wants to integrate that and maybe ConceptNet into a new poetry bot and text-remixer...
- thinking about crowdsourcing
- next week, will be hacking from Japan with lindseykuper
Lindsey
- got an XO laptop
- brought the XO to Code n' Splode
- - and got it to play with Audrey's XO
- found out that Portland has an XO user group!
 - updated Shoebox Full of Tapes
 - basically finished training for the marathon
 - got VPN working for more people at work, finally
 - with all of the above, has trouble finding time to write code for work, let alone for play
Mark
- figured out how to turn on channel logging for #appcelerator (on freenode)
- writing quadratic equation in yonth (harder than it sounds)
- refactoring lots of ruby code at work
- - would like an automatic refactoring: "take the seven argument function and make an object from the arguments that can be passed around instead"