Introduction to Hacking for University Hack Day

Dundee University Hack Day, Mark II Christian Heilmann Dundee, Scotland, November 2007

Welcome Hackers.

Hackers?

but in reality…

www.atariarchives.org/deli/hacker_ethics.php

Karl Koch a.k.a. Hagbard Celine

The “real” hackers had a dream.

“ Wissen muss für jeden Menschen gleich zugänglich sein!“

“ Information is free and needs to be accessible for everyone.“

The good news is that we are well on the way.

The other good news is that we don’t need to resort to illegal activity.

More and more companies realize that offering information for the world to re-mix is a great idea.

This starts with RSS feeds to subscribe to without having to visit web sites.

… and it ends with full fledged Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

APIs allow access to systems and retrieve information in the desired format.

http://www.programmableweb.com

What we do with this information is up to us.

Hacking with it is one idea.

Hacking in this case:
You make a system do what it doesn’t do out of the box.
You built upon structures that are already in place.

You can achieve that in different ways.

By mixing one system with another (a Mashup).

By accessing or displaying information in a different fashion.

Interesting Platforms:
Maps
Messenger
Air / Flex
Facebook
Twitter
Flickr
Upcoming

Above all hacking should be about having fun and achieving something you always wanted to try.

This is what Hack Day is inside Yahoo!

We want our developers to challenge our products and make them better for users.

We also want our developers to challenge themselves to try something new.

And we want to challenge the business people to see what is possible when you let developers play.

… and now we offer the same possibility to you.

Feel the developer’s itch.

Use APIs, systems, SDKs and ideas and do something that helps you and isn’t available yet.

Past hacks that rocked:
Search everything (photos, videos, web) from inside your messenger.
Get images related to the lyrics of a song while you play it.
Tag files on your harddrive to find them later on.
Share and collaboratively annotate pictures with others using desktop widgets.
Allow people to doodle on maps and send a replay to their friends
Offer live information on traffic problems using instant messaging and mobile alerts.

Christian Heilmann
http://wait-till-i.com
http://icant.co.uk
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