Here’s the X2EE Whitepaper (via Lambda The Ultimate). It piqued my interest, and then I saw it used the Forrest skin, and then I realized that it actually did mention Cocoon. The funny thing is that nothing about this was mentioned on the Cocoon lists, so it seems whoever is doing this is not really participating in the Cocoon Community.
I’ll be keeping my eyes open on this project.
Lately, we’ve had this bot on a private IRC network scanning the links:
[OV] MOTD requested by eddie52 (Eddie@xxx-xxx-xx-x.google.com) [irc.xxxxxxxxx.com]
[OV] LINKS ” requested by eddie52 (Eddie@xxx-xxx-xx-x.google.com) [irc.xxxxxxxxx.com]
[WI] eddie07!~Eddie@xxx-xxx-xx-x.google.com (walso)
IPs and hostnames changed to protect the innocent and shy. The IP the bot comes from is inside an IP block belonging to Google. Interesting.
Hm. I’ve been mulling over the problem of attempting to parse METAR data. Unfortunately, it looks like this:
KMSP 192353Z 15006KT 10SM SCT200 BKN250 22/07 A2986 RMK AO2 SLP112 T02170067 10261 20211 58013
I am taking a class in which part of the material covered involves parsing and grammars. Then it dawned on me: I could write a grammar which defines a METAR report.
So I have started in on my project. If this works, this will be a very cool and elegant solution. It involves a ton of experimentation, but hopefully the end result will pay off bigtime. I’m using Chaperon to parse the data. The cool part is that Chaperon includes Cocoon Generators and Transformers, so, hopefully, if I can wrap my head around the workings of Chaperon, I will be able to do all this parsing and decoding from within Cocoon.
The presentation materials, as well as DivX 5 videos of various presentations are available for download.
If you go to a mirror site (please help conserve bandwidth!) and browse to /cocoon/events/gt2003/ you will see links for PDF files and AVI videos (in DivX format) of the presentations.
Comment spammers will have their subnet banned with extreme prejudice :)
Q: What do you get when you combine the functionality of a news aggregator with the sunday funnies?
A: Comictastic, of course!
There’s a whole flurry of activity going on due to the Cocoon GetTogether, along with the Hackathon. Let’s see if I can round most of it up.
Lots of notes being written in real-time on the Wiki.
Matthew has a bunch of pictures from the Hackathon.
Marcus Crafter on the Hackathon, as well as Bertrand.
More later.