Hackfest 1111001

Submitted by MarkLuffel on Tue, 2008-05-27 23:39. :: A Boring Default

Two New Members!
Ashok (with a silent "H")
- co-worker of Humza and Cary Hull
- making a website for studying/memorizing
- - will use spaced repetition to pick flashcards to show
Mike
- co-worker of Ashok
- learning AppEngine
- - looking at using Exhibition with AppEngine

Scott Driscoll (previously)
- writing Matlab code for a freelance project
- has been selling robotics kits to Make magazine
Lindsey
- work: daily insane perl refactoring sprees
- running: daily
- - on track to hit 100 miles for the month
- should perhaps consider occasionally doing things other than work and running
Alex
- stretch goal: put a python REPL into a browser using jython and an applet
- - talked with Lex Spoon about this
- talking with Zach about compilers and byte-code interpreters
- running daily
Rob
- wrote an outline of making the wiibow
- - with glovepie + puredata
- organizing his workflow paradigm desktop
Martin
- hacking on apparent
- - improving query performance by indexing apartments geohash (not the xkcd geohash)
Mark
- trying to make Processing allow Java 1.5 syntax
- - getting segfaults
- should have stuck to playing with geomerative
- biked to Stone Mountain yesterday
- made tiny animations in Flash and Photoshop