Hackfest 1111010
New Member: Dan
- industrial engineering student at tech
- building an app for airline scheduling
- asking about jsp,php,java,ruby-on-rails
Zach
- working on a reading aid for ADD folks
- displays a file and highlights groups of words at a time
- - to prevent distraction
- - it's written in swing
- - based on ideas from a speed-reading app
Tejus
- worked on server config for choices-quilts
- installed ruby on centos 4
Sonali
- working on the new rails version of choices-quilts
- having trouble with the "will_paginate" plugin
Lindsey
- went to my college reunion in Iowa
- - saw family, saw friends, saw Alex, video blogged about it
- learned about the law of "conservation of ream" from my Harvey Mudd
alum housemate
- won NaRoRuMo 2008
- finally making headway on SICP again; end of chapter 1 in sight
Rob
- being quiet
Martin
- working on apparent (the apartment finder)
- going to keep the birthdate of the craigslist posts
- - rather than repull listings from the database at each step
Mark
- researching datetime formatting and parsing
- - found a bunch of libraries in python/perl/javascript
- is going to write some code for parsing English text
- - representing repeated date events (like, every Tuesday from 8 to midnight)
Erik
- maintaining code, yay?
Alex
- working on the jython-in-an-applet-talking-to-javascript project
- - can call from js to applet, and back
- - but keeps getting security exceptions
Other people at Octane: Humza, Ashok, Ashok's brother (Alok), Samir, Alice, Mike, Dan
Alok is taking the JES class with Monica Sweat
Discovered that Ashok (and Alok) are not Indian, but Nepali