atlhack.org - Plans

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 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 1011000 Quite-Post Mortem

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:25:42 -0400

Since Last Time
    Graham
        visa issues
        looked over notes for the lab he's going to teach at pampel fabra
    Alex
        scrabblebot progress
        sqlite working, really fast
        at work: stopped mocking up, started making the real thing
    Drew
        twisted wars, a serious hack
        "i'd write it the same way next time"

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

Hackfest 1001111 Postmortem

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:34:47 -0400

since last time
Alex
- has two reference frames in his head
- Tech's east campus is up, Decatur is very up
- as he zooms out, Peachtree starts to go up
- put references to Real-Ultimate-Power into the Wikipedia article about the spirit of jujitsu

Greg
- is going to move into a place off of Howell Mill
- is going to install ceiling fans there
- read about a company that was trying to draw maps in the way that humans draw maps for other humans
- now has keys to three buildings on Tech campus
- high-preformance ceramics: ceramics are non-metallic, non-polymeric, non-composite material

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.

Hackfest 1000111 Mortem

Tue, 08 May 2007 23:12:49 -0400

8 May 2007 - well-oiled servers

New member: Joe!
he is a cofounder of We The Citizens.
Niche Technology with Paul Royal- online convention registration software.
(Mitch Halpin, Gallagher Prior, tech CS peeps)

Since Last Week:
Mark- hung out at some awesome parties. Tina's chicken party, Puyan's graduation party.
Alex- started work on a journal article for mini-querty!
Will- in charge of designing fluid pumping system.
Graham- submitted first computer music paper on Mused!

Hackfest 111000 Mortem

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:09:20 -0500

18 Jan 2007 - octane x mstreet

Tonight, Alex and I met at Octane. DJs were funky, not too loud, louder.
Mark called us up to his place at MStreet, college people and Jason were there.

What we worked on:
Alex- Proposed a problem as a potential GMaps hack (more below).
Graham- Adding VM status functionality to ChucK firefox plugin (XPCOM).
Mark- Porting OpenSoundControl to Mozilla via XPCOM.
Jason- Adding new features to his Q&A site startup, Qaboom. (smileys in chat, etc)

Atlanta Startup Links

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:12:13 -0500

I'm currently busy in Colorado, but I haven't forgotten about the ATL. I just found some new Atlanta startup oriented resources:

Hackfest 101101 Mortem

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:32:07 -0400

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

Hackfest 100011 Mortem

Thu, 18 May 2006 23:49:53 -0400

18 May 2006 - everyone's tired tonight

Luke- the world is one large causal machine.
Andrew- still reading Walden.
Alex- lots of sleeping and running.
Graham- building a client for prospective startup.
-V, A, and Erik suggested design ideas for chuck album site.
Vinny- burned out.
Erik- implemented distance search for cribster, GMaps stuff.
Stephen- openGL shaders that do force-based dimensionality reduction.
Emily- "is love rational?" she's learning Spanish.

Hackfest 100010 Mortem

Fri, 12 May 2006 02:09:18 -0400

11 May 2006 - No Juice

Since Last Week-

Graham- graduated MS and worked on a web client, left lights on, got a jumpstart from Jody.
Erik- joined a startup doing MLS type open real estate listings.
Andrew- designing a DIY human-powered ultralight from aluminum and a bicycle.
Vinny- using javacc (.jj) to make a compiler for little slice descriptions.
Micah- will attend a PhD program in Early Christianity at Univ. Colorado in Denver.
Luke- working in San Francisco.

Hackfest 100001 Mortem

Tue, 09 May 2006 16:22:37 -0400

4 May 2006 - music: original powerbook brass hit beats

tonight's activities:

Stephen - working on sound -> image -> sound toolkit (Phouriershop)
Vinny - groups for behaviors - membership lists for subjects of behaviors
Alex - research paper organizer / archive
- like iTunes - an XML based library
- NLP toys as add-ons (trigram generation, keyword finding)
- citeseer + google scholar + web paper scavenging
Graham - SWIMM + startup + notes + learned about web services

Atlhack Prehistory

Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:24:12 -0400

Not sure if these were the first formal meetings, but there were a few summer meetings at Graham's house.

Friday 18 Mar 2005 (vinny's notes)
- Last hackday
     - Graham
         - Basic direct sound functionality - loading, playing
         - Loaded MP3's and played them
     - Vinny
         - Managed to do nothing.
         - BEEP has no complete implementation in .Net