Hackfest 10000010

Submitted by MarkLuffel on Tue, 2008-07-29 23:53. ::

Dez: (new member)
- Rails programmer
- started as a designer
- working on a Basecamp-like app
- wants something bigger than the default Rails scaffolding
- - but smaller than ActiveScaffold
- talking with Ashok and Erik about hosting providers
Zach:
- working on BigNum class in java
- talking with Alex about two's complement
- figuring out how to draw transparent rectangles in swing
- - using that knowledge for the speed reader
Alex:
- looking at Logo
- - it's an acceptable LISP
- - wrote a scheme version of this logo program
- went to OSCON
- learning Haskell
Lindsey:
- went to OSCON
- packed all her stuff
- - leaving Thursday from Portland to Indiana
- might be learning Haskell
Ashok:
- memorization app
- reading hitchiker's guide
- trying to run call of duty in wine, didn't work for him
- had a dream about fonts and OCR
- - next project will be about OCR for entering medical forms
Mark:
- working on geomerative
- - fixed a bug this weekend (that he had created)
- needs to get the courage to write the meshing code
- made bagels from Yuna's recipe
Erik:
- adding RSpec's for his work project
- talking about migrations, his model-based permission system