HHC 2006 Programming Contest

[Richard Nelson]

Hello HHCers,

 

With only 11 active HHC web site days left to the Conference the HHC
Committee is trying to make a decision on the 

programming Contest.

 

If you are interested please email me at  rjnelson at aemf.org  and tell
me.  I will start an official list.  Here is one thought.

 

Many people would like to participate but only having the Conference
time to work on the problem is a bit demanding.  If the 

Conference is especially interesting you may be overly stressed (and the
prime directive is to have fun) with so much going 

on.  Here is one idea.

 

We will send the problem to the "registered" people who want to
participate a few days before the Conference.  

This would be on September 13th.  You must be present to win and pick
your prize.  The proposed "problem" this year is 

to modify a supplied program to add a feature.  The program uses
advanced user code programming techniques so 

just getting the program keyed up requires a certain level of skill.
The criteria will not be the same as most previous 

contests.  The winner will be judged on how the feature works, how
simple it is to use, etc.  There will be a challenge 

on how to best add the feature, but the important part is the over all
working of the program.

 

What do you think?  Email me and I will start a list and if there is
enough interest we will proceed.

 

The HHC 2006 web site 

 

http://holyjoe.net/hhc2006/

 

is being actively visited and I hope you are finding some interesting
material being planned for the Conference.  

The Conference is really shaping up very well and I think that it will
compete with HHC 2004 for variety, 

new ideas, and a promise for an exciting future (rebirth) in HP
Calculators.  The Speakers & Topics list will be posted as 

soon as it finishes the rounds of the speakers.  If there are a couple
of unclear items that is intentional.  After all, there 

has to be a couple of surprises just to make it more interesting.

 

Things tend to happen at the last minute, but this year we are ahead of
the last minute stuff and that is a good thing.  If 

we do a few more dozen of these we just might get good at it  :-)

 

Now that the Conference is 95% defined I am very confident that you will
find excellent value in attending.  I want to 

especially thank Joseph Horn for his work on the HHC 2006 web site.  It
is continually growing and it provides a very good 

perspective to the Conference. 

 

Let me hear your comments.

 

I had more than a full day of email loss just before and during
8/31/2006 .  If you emailed me something near that date please resend.

 

 

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Richard

P.S.  Joseph reports the following (partial stats) honest data*:

 

==== Most Popular Directories:

HHC2006 (root directory): 5,444 visitors.
dust (suction-cup article): 581 visitors.
pix (photo gallery): 524 visitors.

==== "HHC 2006" Hits via Search Engines:

Google: 157 searches.
MSN: 218 searches.
AltaVista: 23 searches. 

 

*"Downloads" means COMPLETE downloads, not mere "hits".  Also,
"Visitors" 
leaves out transient hits, visits by bots, and other unimportant visits.
In other 

words, these data are meaningful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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