Hackfest 1111000

Submitted by MarkLuffel on Wed, 2008-05-21 11:31. :: A Boring Default

Erik:
- used jQuery for ALOE, impressed
- needed client-side autocompleter
- "the jQuery plugin idea is very nearly perfect"
Lindsey:
 - helped throw a surprise birthday party
 - went to the Obama rally in Portland with 75,000 people (video)
 - voted
 - did a little more SICP, has been on a plateau for a while, though
 - last day at job will be June 27 (but certainly not counting, or anything)
Alex:
- sudoku solver
- flashes of love for statically typed languages
- app for keeping track of lines-written-per-day
Martin:
- got the apartment finder running on appengine
- bulk uploader for pushing craigslist data into datastore
- trouble with db.TextProperty
Rob:
- stumbling towards objective-c
- - going to make 1337 iPhone apps that do musical things
- air violin, wiibow
- at panopticon-esque job, did web surfing in lynx
Mark:
- getting familiar with geomerative
- nowhere near "materializing" fonts yet
- needs to make some additional geometric datastructures