The hacking session was a great success.
It was such a success that we will definitely have irregular meetings in
the future.
Before I launch into details of the hacking session, I would like to
remind everyone that our next regular meeting is April 21st,
and the topic is "unix and games", specifically on the genre known as "rogue-likes",
possibly detouring into the realm of MUDs, MOOs, MUSHes, and MUCs.
Our chief presenter is Amanda Gray, who has a bit of an obsession with
rogue-likes (and perhaps a hatred of the venerable nethack).
Now, on to the present (or, well, the past).
We had five teams (totaling seven people) plus five spectators.
Teams:
* Team Upset (Myself and Christian Brink)
* Team Fabled (Stephen "perlhaq" Takacs and Luke Varnadore)
* Team Georgia ("PB")
* Team RSS (Chris "Chotchki" Hotchkiss)
* Team Bash (Andrew Gilbertson)
Spectators ("Special Potatos"):
* Tina Hardison (*grin*)
* Amanda Gray
* Dan LeWarne
* Mary Slaughter
* Sam Likens
There are some photographs of the people present on facebook[1],
following the link does *not* require a FB login.
Somehow, Dan, Mary, and my own wife managed to escape being
photographed...
TEAMS
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Team Bash
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With no prior bash experience, Andrew added a file naming feature to mashpodder.
I will post an update when I get the code from him. :)
Team Upset
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Christian and I worked on a catalyst-based web application
I've been working on, which is meant to power the unix people website.
Christian Brink began work on a calendaring feature in the same app.
The code can be found on github[2].
In addition to this, the (lacking in features) app is running[3] at this
very moment.
Team RSS
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Chris decided to write his application on the google app engine, in
java. His task: a somewhat-realtime RSS feed of the slug list.
He has made some progress and has said he intends to finish it "soon".
Team Fabled
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Stephen took on the responsibility of tutoring Luke in the ways of perl.
Along the way they worked on writing a web app for a
choose-your-own-story book, based on existing xml data files for the
Fabled Lands books (sp?)
I believe they didn't complete this task, but will likely continue it in
the future.
Team Georgia
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A person who wishes to be known only as "PB", who was visiting from
Georgia (the state, not the country) worked on a java irc bot.
He seemed to make good progress, because the bot was able to join #pup
and respond to its owner's commands.
REFERENCES
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[1] http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=196966&id=677164281&l=7c3c427f14
[2] http://github.com/dylanwh/upset
[3] http://unix-people.org/
--
"Looking you will find, find your will to find. Searching for something.
Searching for something. Find your will to find."
-- David "Ziggy" Marley, "Looking" (song)
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