Thursday 7 Dec 2006 – alone with the soul
There were djs here playing soul music and the lights were down low.
Graham was here alone tonight, he worked on a new chapter of his cheesy chuck tutorial.
The new chapter examines variation techniques for livecoding.
30 Nov 2006 – more livecoding evangelism
roster- Mark, Alex, his student Zach, Jason Ho, Puyan, cognitive scientist person
also met Chap (programmerer of PCI cards for small broadcast company) and Ed (web programmerer) and gave Tony a demo
Jason is working on a cool question/answer collaboration site. And wants to do a music collaboration site with inline editing.
Puyan is working on cross-domain authentication in J2EE.
Zach will work on computational algebra systems.
19 October 2006 – rainy night
Greg and Brett and Mark here, and Alex and Graham.
Also Larry the soon to be graduate and percussionist, and Martin and Lauren.
New Scheme spec – R6RS.
Mark is coding javascript using the IDE IntelliJ.
Trying to decide if iTunes Applescript, iTunes COM, or Songbird extensions are the future of SWIMM.
JACOB might be an option for talking to COM from Java.
5 Oct 2006 – loud music and smells of cheese from the art opening
Tonight Alex and I worked on SWIMM,
Alex studied for his AdvOS midterms,
Martin told us about his plan to port chuck to pd, VST, and C++ (a library interface).
Kim was here, Richard said hi.
21 Sept 2006, more of two tall geeks
Since Last Week:
Eric- sings the praises of Rails. For Dreamforce!
Graham- attended High Zero 2006 festival in Baltimore!
-playing with fruity loops.
Tonight’s Plan:
Eric- chill out on the internets.
Graham- write emails to chuck-users list.
Tonights Reality:
Graham- after trying cpreprocessor unsuccessfully,
uses m4 to hard code sample library paths in chuck.
(m4 for windows)
-did not actually write emails to chuck list.
7 September 2006 – loud music and tall geeky boys
Since Last Week-
Erik- implementing a ticketing system at work.
Graham- started working on a limiter->dynamics processor for chuck.
This Week-
Erik- getting history.js to work with lightbox (a photo display app).
Graham- add necessary controls to dyna.
-make some chuck file examples that demonstate each mode.
Erik thinks the colo idea is good, worried about bandwidth. 316 Terabytes!
What will we do if the server needs reboot? Call or website interface?
What about DNS servers?
24 August 2006 – atlhack reunions
in Korea, people eat the roe directly out of the sea urchin (uni)
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1621521
also we met Maya, who is a biotech lab tech at Tech
Since Last Week:
Matt- finished his chapter (Picky Eating is a Moral Failing) for Food and Philosophy.
http://www.thehangedman.com/philosophy/papers/html/picky-eating/
Graham- the laptop battle was postponed. But they released audicle sources!
-restarted SWIMM and started working with Michael.
Alex- more SWIMMing, setup a svn server, ramping up to work on Jess.
-thought really hard about distributing functional languages over a network, had a good conversation with B. Dorn.
-wants to rewrite it in python.
Erik- using Ruby on Rails for hacking SalesForce, maintaining a local mirror of a database.
Plan for This Week:
Erik- fix the bug in his AJAX history.js (provides back and forward functionality within AJAX UIs).
Matt- will hack Frump the Turtle with photoshop.
Alex- will start on porting the Electronic Bard to python.
Graham- will hack the audicle to display "later" – a relative time.
This Week’s Reality:
Erik- released an alpha of history.js on subwindow.com, complete with an article.
Matt- colored a page of Frump the turtle.
Alex- made a class skeleton for python Electronic Bard.
-discussed Electronic Sudoko with Zach from computer camp.
Graham- made the changes, trying to get the Audicle-global keystroke to work.
3 August 2006 – new members!
music – a playlist with ample Mates of State
Mike Tria (meta-code.com) – getthere -> code generation startup MetaJ (applied frequently to VoiceXML) -> wrote a clickstream tracking application -> compucredit -> Unisys (open source architect). Will be presenting an overview of migrations (Sun -> Linux, Mainframe->Linux, application migrations) at LinuxWorld.
Writing a video game in Java. The Philosopher (like a Link to the Past) – it’s a game for programmers. Tuned heap and garbage collector. Custom interface using SWT with openGL functionality.
Wants to stay technical (an architect position), wants to start a software shop in Atlanta.
His company is looking for J2EE or .NET architects, and ready to hire.
(Mike suggests Graham read latest Comm-ACM on audio processing)
Mike will send his ideas doc for consumption of all.
Robin – hates the CompE department at Tech. Hard to get jobs without a graduate degree. Programs cable boxes in C for Nagra. Wants to learn Java.
Since Last Week:
Vinny- published source code for SwixUL (sf.net/projects/swixul)
Graham- modified Mused analysis code to work with later version of Bass.NET
Mike- modifying blojsom to use his clickstream tracking
This Week:
Mike- looking at rules-engines (JBoss-rules) for work. making an interface layer from JBoss rules to arbitrary webservices. (got his slipstream rules to work, will be gone for 3 weeks)
Graham- going to parse XML data about songs.
Vinny- mess around with pygame to do mouse tracking and gesture recognition
Robin- writing a bash script to copy a file tree with inclusion / exclusion (something like rsync)
Discussions:
license discovery tool –
mp3.com fire sale
Google ATL moving to Tech Square?
27 July 2006 – another social night
Vinny -tired, preparing for his move
Graham -helped by Vinny on audio editor design
Alex- doing another camp!
Andrew- back from GHP. knows much of the JFK assassination
20 July 2006 – last of the atlhackers?
SInce Last Week:
Vinny- started a SourceForge project SwixUL, attempt to take SwixML and make it XUL compatible. Optimi agreed to release it open source, which is good.
Graham- Wikipedia! AJAX hacking for the chuck album.
Alex- playing chess and SWIMMing.
This week:
Discussions, in person and electronic.
Graham played with the new chuck+audicle!