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Hacking 101
Sudar Muthu

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What is a hack?

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

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hacker: n.
A person who enjoys exploring the
details of programmable systems
and how to stretch their
capabilities

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

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What is HackU?

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24 hours of un-interrupted,
unrestrained coding and
innovation

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Hack

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Eat

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Get Help

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Recharge

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Have Fun

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Hack
Fix
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rlerdorf/3250595638/

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Present

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Win

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Where do I start?

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A good hack starts with an idea…

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Build something you will use
yourself

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

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http://developer.yahoo.com

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http://www.github.com/

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

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Yahoo! has opened up its
data

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

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And so have others

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

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To access these you can use
YQL

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YQL is a SQL-Like Language
that lets you …

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

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

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Use Vincenty's formulae

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Or use YQL

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YQL has more to it

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There’s also Yahoo Pipes to
do this visually

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http://pipes.yahoo.com/

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Data however is not enough.

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You also need working
interfaces

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Technologies are easy:
HTML, CSS, JavaScript

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Making it work on all
browsers and OS is tricky

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YUI

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http://developer.yahoo.com/yui

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Presenting your hack

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Do not show us slides about your hack

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Instead show us what you have done

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Technical glitches happen

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Have a plan-B

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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

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And once you are done

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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!

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Don’t limit yourself to your
favorite toys

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

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

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You only have 24 hours

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Find things that already work
And put them together

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Innovation has no limits

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Go Hack !!!
Have Fun

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Thank You
Sudar Muthu
@sudarmuthu
http://sudarmuthu.com
http://slideshare.net/sudar/

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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/