1. Rapid Prototyping
how to build things really, really fast
Jeremy Hubert
Prototyper, Yahoo! Search
jhubert@yahoo-inc.com
http://jeremyhubert.com/hacku/
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2. Important:
prototype != product
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3. Sell an Idea
or
Test an Idea
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4. Problem
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Solution
Proper Product
Prototype
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5. Problem
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Solution
Prototype
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6. Maximum Effect
with
Minimum Effort
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7. Fake it ‘til you make it
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10. Does it need to be...
Fast
Beautiful
Functional
Something else...
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11. Secret Weapons
Well, ok.. not *that* secret
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12. YUI
Yahoo’s Utility and Control libraries
developer.yahoo.com/yui
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13. YQL
The internet is your database
developer.yahoo.com/yql
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14. Website Inspectors
Explore the live source of any website and then change it
Can be found in Google Chrome, Apple Safari
and Mozilla Firefox
webkit.org and getfirebug.com
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15. jQuery
A very easy to use and powerful javascript library
jquery.com
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16. Greasemonkey
Take control of any website
greasespot.net
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17. Screen Scraping
I use HPricot, a Ruby based Screen-Scraper
You can also use Beautiful Soup (Python) or YQL
hpricot.com
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18. Thank You
jeremyhubert.com/hacku/
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