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Hackfest 1001011 Mortem

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:14:34 -0400

19 June 2007 - Haskellnacht

new people:
Matt - Alex's friend enrolling in MS mechanical engineering.
Asok - dude from the information retrieval company.

Since Last Week-
Mark- performed at electro-music 2007! learned chuck, wrote chuck bluegrass
-writing code to fold fabric in processing
-ran with Graham to Decatur
Greg- measured the volume of powder with helium gas
Alex- built first interactive demo of spelling correction on java + twidor
-exported classifier from WEKA, hooked it all up.

Hackfest 1001010 Postmortem

Wed, 30 May 2007 03:00:22 -0400

29 May 2007 - everybody was sad in middle school

Mark is listening to Amadou et Miriam - the blind couple from Mali
mesons - groups of two quarks, baryons - groups of three
flavors - up, down, top, bottom, strange, charm

Since Last Time-
Erik- company didn't go public. will implement memcache. amazon ec2 - virtual hosting API.
Alex- getting ready for summer camp.
-learned Scratch- it's obvious, least astonishment, can make complex animations.
-doesn't give you structured procedures as in logo.

special cases of bipartite matching

Wed, 23 May 2007 14:10:26 -0400

programming new variants on bipartite matching at work. fun stuff. film at 11.

The Internet Is Epic

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:15:36 -0500

I've been trying to figure out what this video actually says. All that I've come up with is that it gives me a vague sense of hope about the possibilities of the Internet, but it is not a very meaty intellectual chunk. I feel that this could have been a short film about the wonders of flint, and that as long as it is set to a techno sound track with clever editing it will give the viewer a vague impression of a message. The message being "Humans Rule."

I mean to belittle neither flint nor the Internet, but I feel that more should and could be said about the Internet. Sure the Internet is a fast communications network, and we've never had anything like it before. People are communicating on a mass scale never before seen. That is the "What." I don't feel that any assertions were actually made about how the speed, and massive size of this communication is effecting culture.

Hackfest 101110.1 Postmortem - Blast from the past.

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:13:45 -0500

Its late and Graham owes me a punch in the stomach, but I hope this is a case of better late than never! From 8-17-2006

This Past Week:

Graham:

Try to use more sample in chuck environment in preparation for a Laptop Battle.
Started some work towards a collaborative chuck site.

Alex:

Borrowed a twiddler and had some fun. --- Hopefully the arm is much better now?

Luke:

Hackfest 110101 Mortem

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:38:24 -0500

14 December 2006 - dj night again!

new member profile:
Jason Ho -
qaboom.com - Question and answer community for colleges
- ie "how to change folder colors in unix terminal, top five roadtrip movies, risks of eating preservatives, lucky buddha on 10th street hit or miss"
Ti calculator community- Alien Invation - Legend of Zelda clone
went to Small Business Administration today for startup advice
They suggest you start with a partnership agreement.

He added admin area to his site this week.
Tonight he's doing formatting for the tag browsing

Hackfest 110101 Postortem

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:46:10 -0500

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.

Hackfest 110100 Postortem

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:38:21 -0500

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.

Hackfest 10000 Mortem

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:29:13 -0500

Since last week:

Vinny:

Managed to get PyOgre to compile on the Mac.

One downside though: it doesn't fully work with OpenSDL

PyOgre runs and a has started to tie into Commotion.
Scenes in Ogre can be created through PyOgre in Commotion.

Graham:

Finals... *sigh*

Luke:

Linux on kitchen sink.

Loaded up OpenWRT onto my Linksys WRT54G.
Loaded up Linux onto my Treo 650.

Did some MythTV work especially to fix my settings that allow me to have the MythTV box automagically shutdown when idle and startup when it needs to record.

Tonight:

Hackfest 1111 Mortem

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:31:48 -0500

Since Last Week:

New cool posters from pushmepullyou and methanestudios.
Podcast goes here.

Vinny-
Running in circles.
Graham-
Doing homework and running in circles.
Ben-
Nothing, except a birthday.

Today's Plans:

Vinny-
PyOgre should be running.
Graham-
Need to fix bug where text properties spread. Need them to be confined to periods.
Ben-
Figure out how to make JUnit classes that wrap regular classes.

Today's Reality:

Vinny-
Installed newer version of Python (2.4) and scons (python make). Pyst is not working.

Hackfest Podcast

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:19:37 -0500

This week's hackfest was brought to you by the letters M and P and the number 3! Our first "podcast".

Hackfest 1110 Mortem

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:17:33 -0500

Today's notes are informal, but action-packed!

Luke commits to starting part-time technology business.
Vinny is doing an audio podcast. He will put the link here.
J knits a pink hat.
Graham still trying to fix his clocks code. Invisible clocks don't work because somehow text properties are off.

Vinny is working on Gmaps schools application - running live on rails.

Luke helps Graham with various emacs snags.
Helpful emacs commands: f10 gets you to the menu.

Punctuating Clocks

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:00:48 -0500

In Laurie Anderson's performance piece The End of the Moon she suggests that instead of ending sentences with periods, we might end them with clocks, signaling how long was spent on each.

I thought, "Emacs!", with the idea of making a gimmicky blog toy. Luke convinced me we might work to make it more generic, so it could be used as a program analysis tool as well.

The first version is rough, inserts directly into the text, and doesn't account for edits.

Future versions will have the following characteristics:
1. Instead of using keystrokes, will take advantage of emacs' structure of generic coding-text systems. It already knows where the statements begin and end.

Why Engine Games Suck, or, Why Game Design is About Rules

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:22:18 -0400

What is a game?

[game] noun: a form of play or sport, esp. a competitive
one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck (Oxford English Dictionary)

Games are fun - thats why kids play them. Games are about exploring the possibilities of your surroundings, devising a limited set of rules, and then interacting with your environment as limited by those rules. A ball, some people, and a flat surface can turn into golf, football, soccer, kickball, baseball, or basketball. All of these share the same basic elements, but otherwise differ widely due to the application of a (generally) small set of rules.

Hackfest 101 Postmortem

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:03:58 -0400

- Since Last hackday
    - Luke
        - Started porting eclipse SAP development tools to Linux
            - Replaced windows native libraries
    - Vinny
        - Commotion
            - Abstracted out all of my application singletons
            - Got everything working again