Post on 06-May-2015
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Hack
Snack
Hack
Eat
Recharge
Hack
Last Minute Hack
Present
Win
Yahoo Hack
Open Hack Day
Hack till you drop
Hack Snacks
Hack Musak
Girltalk
Hackers can talk?
Dreamer
Coder
Love a Hacker
What is this hacku thing?
Talks all week about different things you can hack on
24-hour hack day Go build that project that you have been
sitting on You own what you build. Period. Win prizes, eat free food, meet Yahoo!
hackers
Get ready for Friday
Pick your technologies, and ask us questions Have a linux box that you have access to
: An old computer. Install Ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-server. Make sure you can access it from everywhere
(static IP, unblocked port 80) If dynamic IP, setup dyndns.org account
Plan on appengine. Plan on local machine (HTML + YQL)
Get ready for Friday (2)
Have a hello world website working. LAMP == <?php print “hello world” ?> appengine == default project should do this
Storage LAMP == <?php new PDO() ?> appengine ==
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/overview.html
Have 3 ideas (or friends with them)
Past Hacks
Pages: http://williamduff.name/YahooPages/ Flolcatr: http://flolcatr.com The Psychic Hotline: http://inv.entio.us OLPC Flickr: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Panorama HackDemocracy:
http://yahoo.summerhilldesign.com Perfect Search :
http://dev.quickfire.org/perfect/ Patee: https://pastee.org/ Inhabittedweg: http://www.inhabitedweb.com/
Ideas
Fix something you use every day Build your own targeted Search Engine Improve the look of search results –
SearchMonkey Semantic Web tools Go local - tools for helping your local
community Hack for Good - Make the world a better
place
Toolkit
Enough PHP to handle simple request How to talk to a backend datastore with
PHP How to parse XML / JSON with PHP How to generate JSON Some basic Javascript A Javascript utility library - YUI
Links Slides: http://paul.slowgeek.com/hacku/hacku-intro.pptx
HackU: http://developer.yahoo.com/hacku
irc: irc://irc.freenode.net/hacku
YQL: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/
YUI: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui
GeoPlanet: http://developer.yahoo.com/geo
Maps: http://developer.yahoo.com/maps
SearchMonkey: http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey
Fire Eagle: http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/