Hack Fest 10 Postmortem

Submitted by ynniv on Thu, 2005-09-01 23:35. :: Brain Candy | People | Places

Notes from today's meetup. Lisp! Regedit! Messenger! None of these things are in the notes.

- Since Last Hackday (a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away)
    - atlhack.org
        - last time, failed to do audio chat
    - graham
        - hard drive crashes. all project code lost
            - rewrote lots of project code, but not back up to speed yet
    - luke
        - wrote an interface for connecting to nethack via lisp
    - vinny
        - atlhack related stuff
            - CamelCaseSmackdown
            - cron backups
            - added project module, but no SVN support yet
    - titus
        - investigated biojava, a java API for biology
    - ben
        - rewriting autograder
            - looked into a netbeans architecture

Click to see Plans and Realities.
- Today's Plans
    - graham
        - implement peak picking - will have simple segmentation done
    - luke
        - finish lisp interface for nethack
        - investigate specs for two other projects
    - vinny
        - get opengl object to properly Init contexts
    - titus
        - research the eclipse modeling framework and SWT
    - ben
        - make a test sample autograder that just compiles code
- Today's Realities
    - atlhack.org
        - this time, failed to do video chat. next time, shared AIM / IRC?
    - graham
        - did peak picking!
            - thresholding (> .25 percentile), zero crossing the derivitive
            - checked into SVN
        - luke
            - bridge is reliable
            - a bot engine has been started
        - vinny
            - beat the crap out of code, refactoring style
            - got openGL context to display
        - titus
            - eclipse was not going to happen on his laptop
            - second project: bindary newsgroup poster that doesn't suck (C#)
                - got some basic code in SharpDevelop
        - ben
            - wrote test autograder, but it doesn't work

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Small correction. Nethack

Submitted by luke on Fri, 2005-09-02 16:09.

Small correction. Nethack already has a Lisp (emacs lisp) interface, but the manner in which you must communicate is through terminal I/O, which is silly. I wrote a small application to simulate the terminal I/O and provide a standard I/O interface. When I worked on this project a bit in the past, I had actually written a deamon in elisp. This mechanism was __slow__ through as I would write to files and poll.

I've committed the application to svn/users/luke/nehackd, but I worry about you being able to see it with the current svn setup.

1. I want to polish up a bot framework example written from clisp and then I'll commit that too.

2. Emacs rules.

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luke

a troll with good intentions, but a troll none the less.

Are you worried that we can

Submitted by ynniv on Sat, 2005-09-03 11:34.

Are you worried that we can see it in an incomplete state, or that we won't be able to see it due to a server misconfig?

I'm not worried about you

Submitted by luke on Sat, 2005-09-03 13:37.

I'm not worried about you seeing it in an incomplete state, as even the lisp is sitting out there now. My tests (though not thorough) seemed to indicate I was unable to see other people's svn repos, so I wonder if anyone can see mine.

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luke

Luke,