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Hackfest 1001 Postmortem

-  Since Last Hackfest
    -  Luke
        -  found blurb about alpha Firefox UI feature, tabling his
              firefox project
        -  wrote simple CLI for jhymn  on Linux
        -  spent some time hacking a linux bootloader for palm treo
              (like GARUS)
    -  Matt
        -  Idea: chronological scale for google maps
    -  Graham
        -  Went to startup school
            -  Is going to write it about it tomorrow (says vinny, really on the weekend)
    -  Ben
        -  More autograding stuff - added something so that it can
              read in a request for a complete regrade of a test
        -  Made things nice and user friendly
    -  Vinny
        -  been playing with lisp/scheme, made cool drawings in
              logo/scheme
-  Today’s Plans
    -  Luke
        -  Website cleanup/maintenance
        -  play with Palm bootloader more
    -  Matt
        -  Haning out, might head home to work on PC
        -  Sketch user interfaces
    -  Graham
        -  Music editor is STARVING
            -  fixing "write with speedup"
    -  Ben
        -  Write something to let the TA run a specific method
    -  Vinny
        -  muck around with scheme/logo more
-  Today’s Realities
    -  Matt
        -  on vague timeline-animated-map-idea: babysteps, in the
              form of touching base on java(?) and GIS
        -  Also: brainstorming on a slick name, with approriately
              pretentious allusion
    -  Luke
        -  Got website things done.  TikiWIki updated.
        -  mail organizing and DHCP debugging via packet sniffing
    -  Graham
        -  Defeated the System.EngineExecutionException by
              reorganizing variables… marshalling issue?
            -  still buggy, tho
    -  Ben
        -  Reorganized some code
        -  read a lot of PhD Comics.com
    -  Vinny
        -  learned the shape of a nautilus shell
        -  wrote some scheme/logo to draw one

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4 Responses to “Hackfest 1001 Postmortem”

  1. barik says:
    October 20, 2005 at 11:35 pm

    I worked on an article for Linux Journal on simulating the PIC microcontroller family on Linux; it is due November 1st so I’ll be working on it next week also. Next week, I’ll finish up the article and begin work on a second one for PHP Architect due November 17. Then I can get back to normal Eclipse development and AtlHack work.

  2. Stephen says:
    October 21, 2005 at 12:04 am

    I’d never heard of this awesome strip.  Now is the perfect time for me to read it :)

    Thanks!

  3. Graham says:
    October 21, 2005 at 1:13 am

    The author, Jorge Cham, got his undergrad at Tech. I think he’s coming to visit us soon.

  4. Graham says:
    October 21, 2005 at 1:15 am

    Those tech publications establish you as an expert in the field and should come in handy for job hunts, contract work, or grad school. Nicely done.

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