Geek projects

[mattp]

of two kinds: Knitting and Programming.
The past couple of days have been spent with hughe and pinkoi - knitting and general geeking and playing with cats. A fabulous couple of days.

A few weeks back I finally found the yarn I was after for a sweater that I'm planning to make and then made a couple of test swatches. It comes out really well but with pinkoi's guidance wetted one to see how it responded, but it opened up a lot and ended up being far too loose. Perhaps I need to felt it, but that would shrink it a lot. I've not done much blocking for felting so need to defer to the judgement of a more reasoned knitter before trying it with such a large project. It can wait a while ayway, since a two part sweater course that I found (as a result of this post doesn't start for several weeks yet.

The other project I've been working on is a web dev project. Until I started this project earlier this week, I've not really done any web dev since I worked for Angels back when I lived in Gothic ValleyHolloway. It pains me how quickly skills fade through disuse. Anyway, the idea is a rendition of TreeHouse from looney labs. It's a basic skeleton at the moment so nothing worth showing but there's something like 10-20 hours of dev time left. depending on how much time I invest I should have something ready in a month or so. The challenging issue is that I'm trying to make it firewall-friendly by doing it all with HTTP and AJAX.

ETA:
Since this post is about geek projects, here's one I've been meaning to post for a while. It's not one of my own, but definitely one for the geek cat owners. hughe comes to mind but there are possibly other close electronic-geeks too.
A web cam attached to a catflap to deny access when the cat is carrying dead animals.

Comments

[contrarywise]

Good luck with the sweater. Yes, gauge swatches can lie, especially if you don't wash and block them before measuring them. I can vouch for telynor's knitting and teaching skills and her general awesomeness--she's a good friend of mine. Best wishes on the web dev project, too.

[hughe.livejournal.com]

little big planet morse code:
http://www.ki6ils.com/?p=27

[hughe.livejournal.com]

also..

http://www.scrabble.hughe.co.uk/

[anarchist-nomad.livejournal.com]

Completely off topic... but can you drop me a line (either here or via e-mail -- use my LJ username (at) livejournal (dot) com) and let me know when and where you ring in London? Now that scheduling is becoming [relatively] sane, I would quite like to join you for an evening!

Also, if at all possible, would I be able to crash at yours afterward? Because, whilst it is possible to spend the evening out in London, head back to Oxford, and return to London the following morning... it really would be more fun to cut the very late night return out of that particular equation!

Hope to see you again soon, my friend!

[juliafdiva.livejournal.com]

ooooooooo thank you for that link went from stressed to snarfing with laughter- will point out to voidkraken when he is back in country sure it will get him thinking of a project or too