Research
Hackfest 1101110
Martin:
- hacked on D and GTK-D
- making a texteditor (textmate+vim clone)
Erik:
- entering exploratory phase of magic web framework
- tentatively titled "stellar"
- derived attributes, caching, everything in the model
- a big "F.U." to M.V.C.
Mark:
- wrote a stack-based language: "yonth"
- adding more primitive operations tonight: greater_than, not_equals
- reading about Joy language, quoting
Alex:
- scrambled for launch
- successful except for minor communications snafu
- so it became an internal launch
- reading sicp, and mythical man month
Lindsey:
- received shiny new macbookpro at work
Hackfest 1100111
Martin:
contract with blueheat,
their development process is scary,
wrote python code to solve a scheduling problem
Alex:
showing off gwt google code wiki, now non-secret,
is going to Portland this weekend
Graham:
refactored Mused such that it should be easier to add new features
(not software features, but audo features),
Hackfest 1100101
Since last week...
Erik: "Nothing! On purpose!" ... Erik is largely On Vacation.
Alex: Been working on the documentation browser thing for code-google-com, which is no longer secret! He'll make everybody take a look at it when it launches, which is Soon. Also been working on the scrabble bot. And he got some cool anagram code from ZachG. Also, paper based on his masters work got into CHI.
Humza: Reading the new Lawrence Lessig book.
Tonight...
Alex: Looking for good information about event loops and callbacks in JavaScript, particularly on IE, where there's occasional reentrancy weirdness.
Hackfest 1011011
New Member:
Nate:
working on startup: Wamily
make-your-own social-network with widgets
targeted at young people, customizable
Emory graduate, wants to move to the valley
runs Ubuntu, uses RadRails
Since last Time:
Erik:
working on pipaya
Kelly:
read a lot of books:
Hackfest 1011010 Mortem
Since Last Time:
Erik:
releasing an app that converts a rhapsody-listening-feed to last.fm,
rhobbler.com
Mark:
books: "Japanese for Busy People 2",
"Domain-Driven Design", "Beautiful Code"
learned some with scala (jvm-based functional language)
Alex:
Hackfest 1010100 Postmortem
21 August 2007 - billings talks about tries, datastructure for autocomplete
new member Hamza! from Google ops
also we discussed the differences between art, science, engineering
Since Last Week-
Mark- is off hiking the Appalachian trail with his brother
Alex- talking with little zach about data structures
-catalogued differences between java 1.4 and 1.5 by diffing javadocs
Kelly- started classes at UGA, human sexuality, speculative fiction class
Erik- working on projects that collects server statistics, pipaya
-talking with Gregg about a manufacturing resource planning for his lab
