Hacking 101

Hacking 101 Sudar Muthu

What is a hack?

“Hacking” is a constructive term. “Cracking” is destructive

hacker: n.A person who enjoys exploring thedetails of programmable systemsand how to stretch theircapabilities

“Altering a system to do what you want it to do using what is at your disposal”

What is HackU?

24 hours of un-interrupted, unrestrained coding and innovation

Get Help

Recharge

Have Fun

Hack Fixhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/rlerdorf/3250595638/

Present

Where do I start?

A good hack starts with an idea…

Build something you will use yourself

Show us what can be builtusing the systems we (and others) offer.

http://developer.yahoo.com

http://www.github.com/

To build a typical web hack you need data, access and an interface

Yahoo! has opened up its data

Search (BOSS), Flickr,Geo, Social, Mail, Messenger …

And so have others

Programmable web lists 6670 APIs in their API directory Twitter, Facebook, Google, …

To access these you can use YQL

YQL is a SQL-Like Language that lets you …

… filter, combine, tweak dataacross hundreds of Web Services. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console

How will you build a system to calculate distance between two places?

Use Vincentys formulae

Or use YQL

YQL has more to it

There’s also Yahoo Pipes to do this visually

http://pipes.yahoo.com/

Data however is not enough.

You also need working interfaces

Technologies are easy:HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Making it work on allbrowsers and OS is tricky

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui

Presenting your hack

Do not show us slides about your hack

Instead show us what you have done

Technical glitches happen

Have a plan-B

Have a Plan B• Record screencast• Do not depend on the internet• Keep your stuff ready in the browser• Rehearse the demo with atleast one crew member before hand

And once you are done

And once you are done• Keep your hack live for others to see• Show other hackers what you have done• Publish your code in Github• Let us know and we can help you to take it even further!

Don’t limit yourself to your favorite toys

A good hack doesn’t need to be a big thinghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/capricorndragon/4000384412/

Don’t look for features. Concentrate on one thing Don’t look to solve everything

You only have 24 hours

Find things that already work And put them together

Innovation has no limits

Go Hack !!! Have Fun

Thank YouSudar Muthu@sudarmuthuhttp://sudarmuthu.comhttp://slideshare.net/sudar/

Hack Resources• http://developer.yahoo.com• http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console• http://github.com/yahoo• http://hackyourworld.org/• http://github.com/codepo8/hackday-toolbox/• http://talks.php.net/show/hacku/

Hacking 101

by Sudar Muthu on Jul 27, 2012

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