Haus News - Face Time http://blogs.codehaus.org//archives/face_time.html en-us 2004-11-06T07:17:16+00:00 3rd Irregular Haus Party http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000878_3rd_irregular_haus_party.html Since a fair number of hausmates are going to be in Las Vegas for ApacheCon, I figure it's time for another haus party. Sometime between Saturday and Thursday, we'll have a gathering, somewhere in the vicinity of the conference hotel.

We'll play it fast and loose and coordinate as the time gets nearer.

]]> Face Time bob 2004-11-06T07:17:16+00:00 July 4 Haus Party http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000781_july_4_haus_party.html

The haus party over the July 4th weekend in Asheville was a raging success. Trygve, Peter Royal and Brian Topping (left-to-right) are pictured above, playing with fire. Click to enlarge, of course. Not pictured are Bob, Jason van Zyl and James Taylor, plus a few hauswives. More images are available by the grace of Peter Royal.

Work on Plexus, m2, Dentaku and Werkflow happened, along with random geek conversations. A grill was assembled and meat was charred. Many things exploded (intentionally).

]]> Face Time bob 2004-07-11T18:30:28+00:00 NYC Potluck Hausparty 6/12/04 http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000752_nyc_potluck_hausparty_61204.html I guess it's summer or something and as there are suddenly lots of Hausmates in the NYC area, it's time to throw the first of what I suspect to be many Hausparties this summer in NYC. Bring food if you want to eat, hopefully something that you can share. We'll have basic snacks on hand too.

Who: You and yours, but please spay or neuter first
When: June 12, 2004 2PM-???
Where: Click for Map. RSVP here for complete details
Why: It's your birthday this year!

I'll be trying to locate an outdoor grill this week, let me know if you are interested in cooking on it, otherwise we'll just skip that part if demand isn't very high. We should have reserve fluids of many colors and compositions, but please bring enough for your basic needs or any specialties that you are interested in. The blender will be plugged in for action, ice and mixers will be on hand, but I'm no bartender and I'm not sure what's going to happen in that department.

Hope to see you there!

]]> Face Time topping 2004-06-05T21:00:16+00:00 Hausmates @ Server Side Symposium http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000696_hausmates_server_side_symposium.html Our events schedule shows that a couple of hausmates will be presenting at The Server Side Symposium at the end of this week. I presume there will be other non-presenting hausmates attending.

]]> Face Time bob 2004-05-03T15:37:59+00:00 Project Guelph: New Year's Haus Party http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000506_project_guelph_new_years_haus_party_.html Having written up the proposal and voting on it, the founders of The Codehaus (exhibit #1 and exhibit #2) have mandated that any event in which they both are in the same city should constitute a Haus Party. So, Haus Party in Guelph, Ontario, leading up to 00:00:00 1/1/2004.

]]> Face Time bob 2003-12-16T07:29:08+00:00 1IHP: Post Portem http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000194_1ihp_post_portem.html So... here's my wrap-up before I lose connectivity tomorrow...

I mostly floated around the periphery, being the shy kinda guy I am, but this is what I picked up over the weekend. First, the hausmates are quite a diverse folk, but strangely similar in some unidentifiable cross-cutting way. I was daunted most of the weekend by the intelligence that surrounded me. There's some amazingly bright minds at the haus that can apparently drink an amazingly large quantity of alcohol and still come up with good ideas, or at least some funny stories.

So, for the details...

Aslak presented some demo that didn't involve cheese (wtf?) regarding Pico container. Demonstrated how Pico is a fancy builder pattern implementation. Jon Tirsen then weaved in some nanning aspects to the component instances. Jason van Zyl considered ways to easily allow deployment of Pico components within the Plexus container. While not present, Peter Donald has been chatting with Jason about some synergy (synergy I say!) between Plexus and DNA and possibly Loom.

Strachan presented something about groovy. James has the ability to say things that only a crazy man should say, but somehow they end up making a lot of sense in a David Lynch sort of way. Chris Stevenson pondered PogoSticks (plain ol' groovy objects sticks "on disk") as an O/R layer that directly uses the groovy AST to translate expressions into SQL statements or such. With some syntactic sugar, James thinks that groovy can be an alternative to using XML markup for hierarchic/tree-shaped data and configuration.

Aslak and Jon (and others?) paired on damagecontrol, which is thrashing through a birthing. Not deployed upon the buildmeister yet, and Jon's saying something about incompatible libC versions on RedHate 7.1. Not the sort of thing you want to upgrade from an ocean away, so that'll have to wait until I can physically lay hands.

Joe chatted up a few folks about XStream, and Tirsen volunteered to solve his circular references problem.

Tirsen also confessed that Paul looked nice in his pants, and that his love for Ruby was only the result of being tortured by Aslak. He really loves groovy. Really.

I'm sure I missed something, and enough hausmates have blogrights they can file addendums as they see fit.

]]> Face Time bob 2003-10-08T23:31:32+00:00 1IHP: Pre Post-mortem http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000193_1ihp_pre_postmortem.html Well, it's Tuesday, and the haus in Amsterdam is mostly empty now, aside from me, my wife and Jason. The other hausmates have sailed to the four corners of the world. Overall, I'd say the First Irregular Haus Party went off without a hitch. Much was discussed around Pico, Nano, Groovy, and XStream, along with some community-building excercises such as indulgent drinking, crazy eurotaxi rides and aimless wandering of the city.

In the next few days, I'll be gathering reports and publishing a conference proceedings on this here blog.

]]> Face Time bob 2003-10-07T16:02:51+00:00 smashing party success http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000191_smashing_party_success.html the hausparty was a smashing success.

]]> Face Time proyal 2003-10-05T15:02:11+00:00 Klompen Shoppen http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000186_klompen_shoppen.html So, Martin kidnapped me and my wife for a surprise klompen shoppen outten. So, we drove past thousands of the tiniest sheep you've ever seen, and found a kloppen maker. Thus now I have suitably large wooden shoes for my feet. Of course, they scream "I'm a tourist" so I shall only wear them back in the states, to proclaim "I was a tourist". I was also horrified to learn that Holland contains no entry in the doughnut food group.

]]> Face Time bob 2003-10-03T01:58:25+00:00 Haus Preps http://blogs.codehaus.org/archives/000182_haus_preps.html Mighty props to Peter Royal for telling me of my wife's much maligned (by me, alas) iBook can be a wifi access point while also jacked into the DSL router. Which has 4 ports, by the way. But just take a wild guess how many ether cables we had. So, we're swapping cables to be online at different times. Attempted and failed to purchase another cable. But then, Peter, the god across the seas, told me about the magic of Mac. Bless you Peter. I owe a big heapin' glass of Chocomel

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