Hacku Intro 2009

HacK U
Paul Tarjan <ptarjan@yahoo-inc.com>

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 Ubuntuhttp://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

OPEN FIREFOX
http://paul.slowgeek.com/hacku/

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/