Kfest is over for another year.
I spent the week pining for updates on what was happening.
News was delayed in reaching the outside world. Most of the regular irc participants were attending Kfest and chatting in person instead (shock! horror!).

Now that Kfest is over, I can openly talk about what I've been doing.

Ewen Wannop announced that he has updated SAFE2. I've been one of his main beta testers over the previous 6 months. It's a great app to test Marinetti with and we found and fixed one major issue with Marinetti's memory handling during the process.

Eric Shepherd announced that the next version of Sweet16 will have Ethernet connectivity! Yay! I've been trying to get Sheppy to tackle this for some time. Finally a few months ago we worked out how it could be done.

I suggested a specific Marinetti Link Layer for Sweet16 and offered to write that if Sheppy handled the host side of things. Sheppy's solution on the host side was to tap into the ethernet layer (via libpcap?). That meant dealing with ARP, which I had never done.... but I knew just the man for the job: Ewen Wannop!

Ewen's experience with the Uthernet LL was directly translatable to the Sweet16 LL. Ewen and Sheppy worked together to get things going and quickly had a solution.

This is great news for developers wanting to be able to develop IIgs networked applications and test them in an emulated environment.

Geoff Weiss announced that a new version of his Hashtool tool set was available to developers. He has successfully wrapped Polymorph's MD2 and SHA-1 code into the tool. As mentioned previously, I was the one asking for this stuff to be done in the first place and encouraging contributions.

So, I declare that I don't suck this year.