Atlhack

New Member: Megan
– student at SCAD-Atlanta
– – roommate of Anna Marie
– designs clothes
– – gothic lolita and other japanese fashion
– has a ganguro friend in alabama

What we’ve been doing
Megan:
– translating blogs
– writing midterms
Anna Marie:
– midterms
Erik:
– tried five things, ended up reverting all of them
– – “i guess my head’s not very clear”
– added a calendar to aloe
– – for bills and invoices
Martin:
– recentering the apartment-finder map
Mark:
– released a new version of the Eclipse plugin at work
– writing pseudocode for an asynchronous language for building interfaces
Alex:
– sudoku solver in python
– – his python is better than two years ago
– gears-ing his app at work

Drew + Patrick:
– competed in pyweek (stochasm)
– starting to design a pure-python physic engine: “homebrew”
Sonali:
– getting the css right on the tejus/sonali project
– – an svn browser “like collaboa, but appcelerated”
– – svn bindings are painful to deal with
Tejus:
– screwed around with heroku (rails hosting)
– – trying to upload/run an appcelerator project
– friended kevin whinnery on the appcelerator dev network
Lindsey:
– went to japan, sapporo, tokyo, learned kanji and kana
– – there are lots of loan words “energy”, “handle”
– – for things that you’d think a native word must exist for
– did some sicp problems
Alex:
– went to japan, sapporo, tokyo, learned spoken japanese and a pun
– – only works at an indian restaurant:
– – Q: “nan desu ka?” A: “hai, nan desu!”
– – Q: “what is this?” / “is this nan-bread?” A: “yes, it is what!” / “yes, it is nan-bread!”
– did something python related
– – used the unittest framework
– started reading “all of statistics” in earnest
Anna Marie:
– new quarter: reading, writing, art-history
– awesome new roommate: a japanese aficionado
Erik:
– wrote a blog post on enterprise-resourse-planning
– having a meeting this week about spinning his project off into a new company
Cary:
– competed in pyweek
– finished his “anarchic noun-space browser/builder”
– is excited by google app engine, disparaging of pylons
Mark:
– competed in pyweek
– ported python-appcelerator to run on google app engine
– refactoring/fixing pyweek code
Martin:
– working on his gmaps housing-finder mash-up
– drawing circles to limit search

Graham:
– finished writing dafx paper
– going to work on organizing dafx contest
– contact me if you want to race your audio effects
– should be doing Mused, but still settling in to new place
– moved to C/ Sardenya, 96, 3o 1o

Martin:
– tabs in dimwit
– using a lot of mixin templates

Kelley:
– going to interview a beekeeper next week
– – who is friends with the goddess

Erik:
– went to a 12-inning Braves game
– frustrating stuff with rails and marshalling objects
– – might try json
– is building a snazzy ajax datatable

Drew:
– scene transition for stochasm/roboto
– hacked on layout of tiles
– playing with amazon ec3 at work

Mark:
– working on the onomatopoeia editor for stochasm
– still refactoring ruby at work

Alex and Lindsey are off in Japan somewhere. They ran the marathon on Sunday.

Kelley
– got a new macbook
– interviewed a priestess for the next creative loafing
– interview with mayor slash funeral directory to be published tomorrow
– a little bit in love with the XO laptop
Graham
– met with b.w.thompson in Barcelona
– working on paper for DAFX in Finland
– fixed a bug today
– – which hopefully yields great glory and trip to Finland
Erik
– just stuff
– blogged a rant on subwindow
– got a bunch of comments
– retracted rant
Martin
– working on dimwit (code editor written in D and python)
– making windows splittable
Alex
– finished reading Mythical Man-Month, still reading sicp
– playing with the OLPC
– got excited about emulating a Mac Plus, was running mini vMac
– -fun but not long-term productive
– got even more excited about NLTK
– – wants to integrate that and maybe ConceptNet into a new poetry bot and text-remixer…
– thinking about crowdsourcing
– next week, will be hacking from Japan with lindseykuper
Lindsey
– got an XO laptop
– brought the XO to Code n’ Splode
– – and got it to play with Audrey‘s XO
– found out that Portland has an XO user group!
 – updated Shoebox Full of Tapes
 – basically finished training for the marathon
 – got VPN working for more people at work, finally
 – with all of the above, has trouble finding time to write code for work, let alone for play
Mark
– figured out how to turn on channel logging for #appcelerator (on freenode)
– writing quadratic equation in yonth (harder than it sounds)
– refactoring lots of ruby code at work
– – would like an automatic refactoring: “take the seven argument function and make an object from the arguments that can be passed around instead”

Martin:
– writing basic backend code for the D text-editor
– code-named “dimwit”: “D language plus my state of intelligence”
– thought about how to edit really large files
Alex:
– reading sicp and mythical man month
– needs a good side project
– working on gears and docreader features
– was introduced to unix’s “select” call (for networking) in high school
– it’s in the main loop of circle-mud
– which was the first big c program he worked on
Lindsey:
– visited the Oregon coast
– went hiking in the mud
– had breakfast with old undergrad CS adviser SamR
– – who showed off DrFu, which integrates DrScheme with Script-Fu for GIMP
– ran 21.1 miles with Alex
– – didn’t die
– finally made VPN work on her shiny new macbookpro at work
– – thus thwarting the IT department’s attempts to prevent work from being done
– alex did these things too, where it makes sense for him to do them
Rob:
– investigating MIDI standards,
– wants to understand MIDI for use in Max/MSP
– downloading patches for the CZ1 (a badass Casio)
– – for learning sound synthesis
– will eventually make your voice with the Casio
– – which will not be like Stephen Hawking speaking
Erik:
– building this “thing”, perhaps unwisely
– extending symbol in activerecord to make things more terse
– hard to explain
– for creating tables of datat
Kelley:
– reading “Lovely Bones”
Mark:
– reading about scala and java interoperability, sounds messy
– went to pycon
– – learned aboutSaturday House (which is similar to atlhack)
– – learned about robust, distributed backup systems (mozy and allbydata)
– contributed to Drew’s “Miru” project
Drew:
– went to pycon
– hacked on Miru
– hacked on excitebike clone: “baiku”
Cary:
– went to pycon
– worked on baiku
– worked on his anarchic content creation system
Alex (Ray):
– annotating the root pitch of recording of indian classical music
– so that they can feed them into the big system
– get pitch class distr
– attempt at reccomendation engine
– mark godfrey is working on this
– finds neighbors based on features
– comparing pitch based and timbral features
– tunes sine wave oscillator, get it basically correct, the click next
– – over and over again
– – boring
– listening machine is coming up (april 20something)
– – working on “mridangam” listener/improvisor
– – which listens
– – which will do fancy algorithms to play something else back
– went to spark festival
– – played a set, and played with parag

Hackfest 1101111
Erik:
– working on stellar
– irked by the way ruby’s “require” is relative to the root/parent script,
– thinks it should be relative to the current script (like python, says mark)
– first stellar app running!
– using HAML
Martin:
– embedding python into D
– generating D bindings
– will make a text-editor using a combination of D and python
– started at Appcelerator
– hacked on the perl servicebroker
Alex:
– learned about Google Gears
– wrote some python to produce data for gears
– worked on SICP problems
– writing some media-computation python (smearing tacocat)
Lindsey:
– wrote a birthday present for her friend
– – it takes his username and computes his age (in a Scheme-y sort of way)
– coordinated trips
– stuck in meetings at work
– met a brilliant mathematician/computer-scientist and stay-at-home mom
– – thus believes there are more elite women in the world than people realize (anna marie says: amen!)
– – especially in places where women are encouraged to be humble,etc
– – who don’t give talks at cons because they don’t realize how brilliant they are
Mark:
– sped up Prototype’s “String.prototype.gsub” (in everything except Safari)
– started a blog ( shiftpop )
Anna Marie:
– finals week, stressed
– can’t put alt-text on background-images
– completed site-map for portfolio site
– working on design for an athletic-wear company: “helios”
Rob:
– installed OS X on his windows computer
– playing with MAX/MSP
– learning python
– gaining experience points, trolls, firespells
– “not a metaphor”

Erik:
– read about git submodules
– wants to have customized project directories that share common code
– planning ERP spinoff company – planning for flexibility (so customers can upgrade/add capabilities)
– went to lunar eclipe party
Mark:
– working on HaXe bundle for TextMate
– writing HaXe data layer for timeplot widget
– went to lunar eclipse party (on the lawn that was a parkinglot by van leer)
Martin:
– installed gtkD (gtk bindings for the D language)
– playing around with it (there’s no documentation)
– reading about "lazy" function arguments in D
Alex:
– working on work
– started reading sicp and mythical-man-month
– ran 16.6 miles down the san diego coastline
Lindsey:
– ran 16.6 miles down the san diego coastline
– updated shoebox full of tapes (at rockstargirl.org)
– attempted to teach five people how to do her job
Tejus:
– working on work
– made buttons appear in correct locations in IE
– skybloxing
– had something repaired, no longer has water falling on basement computer

Annamarie (new member):
– goes to SCAD,
– in a graphic design class,
– making a website about typography,
– using dreamweaver
Martin:
– google maps + craigslist mashup,
– wrangling with unicode, regexes, python database api
Mark:
– writing code in haxe,
– a micro-orm (accidentally),
– intends to make a mini-graphviz for social timeline layout
Erik:
– implemented state machine for the bill of materials
– reading about primaries on the dailykos
Alex:
– http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=53
– squished all remaining bugs in docreader, did a backflip,
– writing a blog post, “which i’ve been meaning to do for a while”
– got a copy of sicp, may read in synchrony with Lindsey:
– “it would be sickly sweet, but we may do it anyways”
Lindsey:
– finished (hofstadter’s) strange loop,
– started sicp (structure and interpretation of computer programs)
– is eating a doughnut

(lest anyone think that we hold our Portland delegation in lower regard than local members, the note are ordered by arrival time, with top-posting of new members)

Martin:
– worked on google maps / craigslist mashup,
– learned django (routing and views),
– read about wsgi, likes that
Erik:
– got a counter-offer from his company,
– is staying in Atlanta!!!!
– tweaked design of aloe
Alex:
– meaning to make some blogposts:
– about distributed source control
– and about setting up ubuntu to do (highly impractical) academic computing,
– excited about crowdsourcing,
– will make a a game that collects crowdsourced-esque data,
– saw presentation by “esp” game creator (Louis von Ahn)
Lindsey:
– learned how to map files over ssh
– did situps
– “stopped putting important stuff in methods that people are going to override anayways”
Zack:
– writing java in xcode, ditching it for eclipse,
– robot ships tuesday,
– working on the autonomous mode,
– drive code is written, need to test
Tejus:
– solved the integration issue with appcelerator and yahoo maps,
– required weird asynchronous hacks,
– adding scripts tags, callbacks
Sonali:
– playing with using amazon web services,
– going to use web services in her next project
Mark:
– figuring out how to make a TextMate bundle,
– (his coworkers are eclipse adverse)
Gabi:
– reading “The Secret Life of Bees”