round-08-wrapup.txt

Hey All,

Thanks for coming out to Hack and Tell last Monday night! I had a
blast, and I hope you all did as well! This may have been the biggest
Hack and Tell yet, and certainly one of the best so far!

Again, thanks to General Assembly (http://generalassemb.ly) for
graciously hosting, and to Etsy (http://etsy.com) for feeding us.

Here's what was presented, please correct me if I'm wrong, or
fill in missing details!

  Doug Tangren - Android clock with images as numbers (source will be
     available I believe? on https://github.com/softprops) 

  Ryan Gravener - Bang: Android western shootout game over Bluetooth 
     (with cool Bluetooth pairing mechanism based on QR Codes!) 
     source: https://github.com/snooplsm/bang
  
  Nathan Hamblen - All-Aboard: Streaming API for real time departure 
     data (NJ Transit only for now)
     source: https://github.com/n8han/All-Aboard

  Cory Forsyth - Boggle hacks (heatmap, etc): 
     http://bantic.github.com/boggle-heat-map/
     source: https://github.com/bantic/boggle-heat-map

  Kenny Katzgrau - divvy a log parsing and monitoring tool 
     source: https://github.com/katzgrau/divvy

     (Editors Note: I've added cowsay support, but my Perl is rusty:
                    http://github.com/apgwoz/divvy)

  Frank Denbow - http://PriceCrisis.com a pricing game making use of
     Sinatra, Raphael.js, the Zappos.com API. Also available to play
     over the phone!
     source: unavailable or location not known.

  Alexander Sicular - Hacker News/NY Times with social data 
     (http://hnfluence.com)/(http://influentialtimes.com/)
     source: unavailable or location not known.

  Jesse Chan-Norris - Cowsay for the web + cowsay-py
     http://cowsay.morecode.org
     source (cowsay-py): https://github.com/jcn/cowsay-py

  Simon Murtha-Smith - Locker: my social data collector and archiver
     source: https://github.com/quartzjer/Locker

  Bjorn Roche - Mantis for Indaba Music 
     http://www.indabamusic.com/landing/mantis
     source: unavailable

     (Editors Note: If you end up open sourcing the tool kit, let us
      know!)


As a side note, you can always find some of us (and some guests from
other parts of the country) chatting in #hackandtell on 
irc.freenode.net, and find us on Twitter at @hackandtell.

See you next time!

Happy hacking,

Andrew
@apgwoz