Hackfest 1110011
Drew + Patrick:
- competed in pyweek (stochasm)
- starting to design a pure-python physic engine: "homebrew"
Sonali:
- getting the css right on the tejus/sonali project
- - an svn browser "like collaboa, but appcelerated"
- - svn bindings are painful to deal with
Tejus:
- screwed around with heroku (rails hosting)
- - trying to upload/run an appcelerator project
- friended kevin whinnery on the appcelerator dev network
Lindsey:
- went to japan, sapporo, tokyo, learned kanji and kana
- - there are lots of loan words "energy", "handle"
- - for things that you'd think a native word must exist for
- did some sicp problems
Alex:
- went to japan, sapporo, tokyo, learned spoken japanese and a pun
- - only works at an indian restaurant:
- - Q: "nan desu ka?" A: "hai, nan desu!"
- - Q: "what is this?" / "is this nan-bread?" A: "yes, it is what!" / "yes, it is nan-bread!"
- did something python related
- - used the unittest framework
- started reading "all of statistics" in earnest
Anna Marie:
- new quarter: reading, writing, art-history
- awesome new roommate: a japanese aficionado
Erik:
- wrote a blog post on enterprise-resourse-planning
- having a meeting this week about spinning his project off into a new company
Cary:
- competed in pyweek
- finished his "anarchic noun-space browser/builder"
- is excited by google app engine, disparaging of pylons
Mark:
- competed in pyweek
- ported python-appcelerator to run on google app engine
- refactoring/fixing pyweek code
Martin:
- working on his gmaps housing-finder mash-up
- drawing circles to limit search