This document discusses hacking and innovation. It defines hacking as solving problems innovatively and describes Hack U as a two day event for uninterrupted coding and innovation. It provides tips for starting a hack such as fixing something used everyday or building something for personal use. Resources mentioned include the Yahoo and GitHub developer sites, YQL for accessing data across services, and YUI for building interfaces. The document encourages attendees to build things that put existing systems together in new ways and to keep their work available for others after the event.
79. Have a plan-B
• Record screencast
• Do not depend on internet
• Keep your stuff ready in browser
80. And once you are done
• Keep your hack live for others to see
• Tell us about your progress
• Show other hackers what you have done in our
fourms/groups
• Publish your code on github
• Join us and take it even further!
I am today here to introduceyou to what hacking meansto us. We are a big team.
There are few myths and misunderstandings about Hacking
In Yahoo!, hacking is about innovating and solving problems with your ideas
Find solutions to the problems! Find something that always annoyed you with systems you use... ...and build a workaround.
Hacks are not very complex. Lot of people think they have to finish the product in 24 hours! We have very cool building blocks todayUse them Play with new technologies
Don’t try to solve everything in your hack.. Instead of Building something and put feature feature in it.. Concentrate on building one thing. 1 thing is enuf
You have only 24 hours. You have to show what you have done.
Mashing up things that already work.
Everything that yahoo does for developers is located. With documentations, code examples
Everything that yahoo does for developers is located. With documentations, code examples
Here is a hack: askBOSS which I did sometime back. askBOSS is a natural language image search engine
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