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Hackfest 1101110

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:13:48 -0500

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 1101001

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:30:10 -0500

Rainyday, both Martin and Alex biked

Martin
- cairo for python, but realized it's not a good idea,
- wants bezier curves in pyglet,
- blueheat contract due friday,
- reading about serialization and javabeans
Mark
- reading about arc,
- asking dumb questions about dynamically typed haskells on freenode
Alex
- working weird bug in internet explorer,
- but then realized it's the same bug,
- has emacs modes for R (the statistical language) and Octave
Lindsey
- rebuilt her desktop machine (lightning)
- reading hofstadter,
- got excited about gödel numbers, which Alex is meta-excited about

Hackfest 1100111

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:49:22 -0500

    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 1100110

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:16:15 -0500

micronationformationfoundation.com
Erik:
      doing rss in rails for http://forecaster.ws
Alex:
      learning rails,
      worked with martin on zmachine emulator
Martin:
      started with blueheat, a mobile games company
Lindsey:
      (from the Portland chapter of Atlhack)
      wrote a lot of perl,
      saw dolphins,
      reading "i am a strange loop"

Hackfest 1100101

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:21:11 -0500

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 1100000

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:27:39 -0500

Drew:
    Says: CCP Games has a new office in Atlanta
    (they make a python-based mmorpg)
    finished mural for his daughter's room,
    switched to mercurial for source control
Mark:
    wrote a python macro!
    returns a hashtable of all variable bindings at the return point of a func
    ported accelerator to python, learned setuptools,
    wrote a wrapper to make pyglets looks like nodebox, porting sketches
    leading Martin through Appcelerator

Hackfest 1011101

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:59:59 -0400

New Member:
    Bob:
        is learning AutoLisp,
        "this is the future!"
        Lisp Recorder - records actions as lisp code,
        was at the Books concert last spring,
        Marta story (appended)

Since Last Time:
    Tejus:
        started a job
    Sonali:
        work and setting up the house

bcnhack 2

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:58:44 -0400

18 Oct 2007 - more since last two weeks

Since Last Time:

chuck-sharing-site: more of the interface working, bit by bit.
-learned how to use java.sql PreparedStatement objects

research: gave a talk to a student seminar
-Adaptive Effects using STFT, Source-Filter Model, Verfaille DAFx04
-and how it relates to my research topic
-have a first-pass at my research topic

This week:
will translate words in my Catalan recipe book

much love to the laptop battlers

Hackfest 1011100

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:05:53 -0400

Highly synchronized week!
Since last Time:
    Nate:
        attended Bar Camp Atlanta,
    Mark:
        accepted job at Appcelerator
        attended Bar Camp Atlanta,
        showed off some wiimote/chuck sound generation
    Erik:
        facebook platform
    Tejus:
        accepted job at Appcelerator

Hackfest 1011011

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:55:06 -0400

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

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:47:58 -0400

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 1011001 Mortem

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:11:08 -0400

    New member
        Rick
            worked at togetherweb (acquired by Proficient, RobK's old company),
            part of atlanta tech community, y&r
    SInce last time
        Alex
            very large victory at work, very happy
            "you put the layout in the css, and you put the content in the html"

Hackfest 1010100 Postmortem

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:56:52 -0400

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

Hackfest 1010011 Mortem

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:54:07 -0400

14 August 2007 - ridiculous visa

Since Last Week-
Mark- played around in nodebox, made dueling arrows
looked for houses in Decatur, found potential something
read a book about the founder of Patagonia - Let My People Go Surfing
they trace all of their products
played around with angles in nodebox
Alex- made a thing for the secret project
usability fix for the Google Web Toolkit
read rant 'the kingdom of nouns'
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html
reading Foundations of Security
Graham- completed papers for a student visa

Hackfest 1010010 Mortem

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:02:25 -0400

7 August 2007 - big group

Since Last Week-
Mark- got IOBluetooth package to load in GHCi, trying to get hsc3 to work
Bill- broke his amp, driver circuit failed after new tubes, may require redesign
got a Magnatone amp, it has a frequency modulation (vibrato) circuit
it also has a HUM1 and HUM2 - reversing between ground and liveline - a death switch
Rob- took a trip to Seattle. recorded a song cycle from the Northwest corner.
have been working on video editing, working on rap tracks.
Stuart- recorded two songs with Rob, first successful measurement