kev/null » leonard lin http://kevnull.com Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:07:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Pipes Team Shout Out http://kevnull.com/2007/02/the-pipes-team-shout-out.html http://kevnull.com/2007/02/the-pipes-team-shout-out.html#comments Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:52:44 +0000 Kevin Cheng http://kevnull.com/2007/02/the-pipes-team-shout-out.html I tagged a bunch of people in my last post but I wanted to do a proper shout out because the talent is really phenomenal and worth talking about in more detail. The Pipes team started in September with four people:

  • Pasha Sadri: the man with the idea, who also came up with Yahoo! Trip Planner is a brilliant thinker and draws great caricatures to boot.
  • Edward Ho: all round ninja doing both front end and back end as well as the top of Mario Kart DS
  • Jonathan Trevor: Whom I’ve told numerous people is the guy who codes faster than I can design (he’s responsible for the editor)
  • Daniel Raffel: The guy who gets all the things out of the way and fills in every crack and deals with the multitude of minute details we would otherwise forget.

I joined in late November and had the opportunity to overhaul the visuals and a fair amount of the interaction on the site in a short time although this past week my eyes have been bleeding from css and php much more than Photoshop. On the home stretch, we got crucial helping hands from Maciej Ceglowski and Paul Hammond.

Everyone’s pimping our sponsors, and really for good reason because they made it possible to do a project like this in the unique environment that we had as fast as we did. So cheers to Caterina and Bradley!

Finally, some more mentions now from Jeremy, TechCrunch, GigaOm (thanks Jackson!) and hell, just look at Leonard’s Pipe for Pipes Buzz.

Oh, and I’ve got my Player News for NHL Player Pipe set up (good for fantasy sports).

]]> http://kevnull.com/2007/02/the-pipes-team-shout-out.html/feed 3 Maker Faire 1 – SFIFF 0 http://kevnull.com/2006/04/maker-faire-1-sfiff-0.html http://kevnull.com/2006/04/maker-faire-1-sfiff-0.html#comments Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:40:00 +0000 Kevin Cheng http://kevnull.com/2006/04/maker-faire-1-sfiff-0.html I went to [Maker Faire][1] over the weekend with [Tantek][4] (and ran into [Nicole][5], [Brandon][6], [Leonard][7] and many others). We didn’t arrive until quite late due to a number of circumstances (including some protesting on [Bill 42][8]) and I have to say I was pretty disappointed. Not in the Faire but in myself for not having arrived earlier. Imagine your typical county fair with booths of knick knacks and cotton candy and replace all of the booths with people who love to tinker and you’ve got Maker Faire. There were great displays of inventions ranging from the artsy to the useful. There was a garage where they were converting a Prius from a hybrid to a plug-in hybrid. A swap-o-rama where you could screen print your own shirts or bring stuff to trade with others, workshops for kids, a place with a ton of old computer parts where people just put together whatever they wanted, and more geeky inventions than you can shake a bread board at. Yahoo! also had a sweet center booth which I was happy to see. A great community to have a presence with.


Photo by George

After the fair, a bunch of us checked out Cock Byte: Masters of Machinima, a feature of the [San Francisco International Film Festival][2]. I knew it was featuring the people from [Red vs. Blue][3] but wasn’t sure what to expect. As it turns out, there was nothing new and they showed the first season of RvB which, as they so helpfully pointed out, was copyright 2003. Most of us were pretty annoyed at having spent $11 and an hour and a half watching something we’d seen, at worse quality and then listening to two of the members of the team basically insult the audience and have nothing intelligent to say. At least the film fest can only go up from there.

[1]:http://www.makezine.com/faire/ “maker faire”
[2]:http://sffs.org “san francisco international film festival”
[3]:http://redvsblue.com “red vs. blue”
[4]:http://tantek.com “tantek”
[5]:http://neekole.com “nicole lee”
[6]:http://thegeekout.com “brandon hanvey”
[7]:http://randomfoo.net/ “leonard lin”
[8]:http://www.joshwolf.net/blog/?p=173 “Simpsons Did It”

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