Tonight was fun and pro­duc­tive. I attended the Lawrence Tech­nol­ogy Asso­ci­a­tion mixer and met up with Nick F, the first time we've seen each other in 3+ years. He's doing great and all. We played phone tag every 6 months the whole time I was at col­lege and I'm glad that period is over with.

This LTA mixer was neat. It's an orga­ni­za­tion work­ing in con­junc­tion with state, county, and city agen­cies and KU to pro­vide busi­ness strat­egy help and startup fund­ing for high tech star­tups. They've helped get a num­ber of local com­pa­nies off the ground and their suc­cess is really amaz­ing. I was extremely impressed by the speak­ers from the LTA and the larger state orga­ni­za­tion, KTEC. It seems like a fan­tas­tic ser­vice, and it turns out that Kansas used to have pro­gres­sive and forward-thinking poli­cies, at least in this instance.

I spoke with Nick a long while after the mixer and barely made a dent in cov­er­ing things. We need to get together a lot more and hope­fully will from now on. I'm check­ing to see if he can attend the Fri­day sem­i­nar tomor­row. I think it's a demo of our NetOc­to­pus prod­uct. It doesn't mat­ter much — Nick seems inter­ested in see­ing the place and what is all going on as well as say­ing hi to the 2 or 3 peo­ple he knows.

As for tonight, I'm at work. I was inspired by the pas­sion of the LTA speak­ers to come back here and kick some ass on my own projects. Well, my usual interop test­ing project and the test por­tal mockup.

And I did kick some ass. I worked out the details of pipelin­ing tr69 com­mands and re-matching the results to the input com­mands. That will speed up the detailed para­me­ter test­ing 2-3x. I expect it will cut in half the time for a com­plete test of a CPE.

Also I did some beau­ti­fy­ing and cleanup on the test por­tal mockup for the demo tomor­row. It looks really nice but I can't take credit for that. Still, I think I'm doing an excel­lent job of mak­ing it slick and usable with css and javascript. I'm learn­ing a lot and sur­prised at how well it's going.

Well, back to work!