Introduction to Hacking and everything else you need to learn about a hackday.

7. Hackers are:
People like you and me.
Creative developers & designers.
Love technology.
Love building things.
Come to events like this.
It’s a term of great respect!
Wear that badge with pride!

8. An innovative solution to a real world
problem; quick and dirty workaround,
yet effective.

10. h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/na3onaalarchief/4192749615/in/set-­‐72157623018193396

35. h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/jus3npoliachik/3893820201/

45. The web has lot of data around

47. http://developer.yahoo.com

48. http://developer.yahoo.com/everything.html

51. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console

59. http://pipes.yahoo.com/

65. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui

66. • http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/builder/

68. http://developer.yahoo.com/cocktails/mojito/

70. Powerpoint = Fail!

73. • Record screencast
• Do not depend on internet
• Keep your stuff ready in browser

74. • Solves a real problem
• Working Prototype
• Displays Creative Thinking
• Great User Experience
• Uses data or technology in a unique and
interesting way
• Uses technology or data from Yahoo!
• X-factor!

75. • Keep your hack live
• Show others what you have done
• Publish your code on github
• Join us and take it even further!

79. 2. A good hack doesn’t
need to be a big thing
h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/capricorndragon/4000384412/

81. 3. Tackle
the
hard
problems
first

83. 4. Expect
the
unexpected!
h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/cris3ano_be"a/571879057/sizes/l/in/photostream/

84. h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/major_clanger/1488173116/sizes/l/in/photostream/

86. • http://developer.yahoo.com
• http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console
• http://www.github.com
• http://hackyourworld.org/
• http://isithackday.com/hackday-toolbox/
• http://talks.php.net/show/hacku/
• http://www.slideshare.net/cheilmann

88. http://slideshare.net/saurabhsahni
http://twitter.com/saurabhsahni
http://github.com/saurabhsahni
http://www.saurabhsahni.com