How To Be A HackerPaul Tarjan’s

What is a hacker

Dreamer

Coder

Hacker

Sign me up!Now that we’re on the same page, lets talk about hackersMany types of hackers. Lets talk computer hackers. (NOT CRACKERS).Many types of computer hackers :HardwareSecuritySoftwareWebSpecifically: Web hackers

Things you should be doing now

Buy a domain name2 beers - $7.50http://www.retailmenot.com/view/godaddy.compaulisageek.comInfinite Emails : amazon@paulisageek.comOpenID : http://paulisageek.comProject Hosting : http://paulisageek.com/pppGoogle does mail forwarding : http://www.google.com/apps/

Build a homepageLearn HTML + CSS + JSCreate your web presenceLink to your other stuffrel=“me”

Run a *nix boxApacheMySQLSamba / NFSOutbound SMTP to your domainSubdomain : home.paulisageek.comdyndns.org for dynamic ips

Learn lots of languagesAt least one of each typeOnes I use everydayScripting : python, bashWeb : PHP, python, SQLClient Side : Javascript, CSS, HTMLSpeed : C, C++, JavaFun problems to learn : http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems

OpensourceGive your code to the worldEasy to link toGood for archivingGet known! Make friends!Better than a resumeI use – githubOthers recommend - Google Code

Lets hack somethingAzeroth

Ok, that’s a bit bigWho would win in a WoW duel?Many ways to architect. I’m doing it this way to teach Javascript and YQLFirefoxYQLwowarmory2 x character + serverFetch character infoReturn XMLJSON

We’ll do it live!GitLinuxApacheMySQLPHPhttp://paulisageek.com/hacku/

TCP/IP

DNS

HTTP

Linux

Apache

SQL

PHP

URL/URI

Free-ish HostingApp engineEC2Find an old machine and run it in your dorm dyndns.org

Microformatsmicroformats.orgUse known classnames for known types<a class=“fn”>

REST

JSON + YAML

Ideas

Search EngineCrawlerIndexerWebmapRanking functionRuntime systemWeb frontend

GamesClient side – directx, openglWeb based – ikariumFlash – kongregate.comGreat experience and people will actually use it

OpensourceFind a opensource thing you use Join the mailing list Report some bugs Fix some bugs that bother you Add some features that you want

OtherFind something you need and build it so others can use it too