Hacking for Innovation: IIT Kharagpur
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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.
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Hacking for Innovation: IIT Kharagpur
- 1. Hacking for innovation Saurabh Sahni YDN Engineer, Hacker, Evangelist
- 2. Hacking???
- 3. There are few myths about Hacking
- 5. Hacking is a good thing Cracking is Evil
- 6. In the Yahoo! sense, hacking is about solving problems innovatively
- 7. And a hacker is …
- 9. What is this Hack U thing?
- 10. Talks for two days about different things you can hack on
- 11. 24 hours of un- interrupted, unrestrained coding and innovation
- 12. Hack
- 13. Eat
- 14. Get Help
- 15. Recharge
- 16. Have Fun
- 17. Hack Fix h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/rlerdorf/3250595638/
- 18. Present
- 19. Win
- 21. The question is though: where do I start?
- 22. A good hack starts with an idea…
- 23. Fix something you use every day"
- 24. Build something you will use yourself
- 25. Hack for Good - Make the world a better place
- 26. Go local – tools for helping your local community
- 27. Don’t concentrate on your favorite toys
- 28. A good hack doesn’t need to be a big thing h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/capricorndragon/4000384412/
- 29. Don’t look for features. Concentrate on one thing Don’t look for features.
- 30. You only have 24 hours
- 31. Find things that already work And then put them together
- 32. We want you to show us what" can be built using the systems" we (and others) offer.
- 36. To build a typical web hack you need data, access and an interface
- 37. Yahoo! has opened up its data
- 38. Search, Flickr, Geo, Placemaker, placefinder, Social, News, Finance, Mail, Messenger, Address Book, Maps, Ansers …
- 39. Also Others
- 40. Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Craigslist, Imdb, Last.fm …
- 41. To access these you can use YQL
- 42. YQL is a SQL-Like Language that lets you …
- 43. … filter, combine, tweak data across hundreds of Web Services. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console
- 44. How will you build a system to calculate distance between two places?
- 46. Or use YQL
- 47. Select kilometers FROM geo.distance where place1=“kolkatta” AND place2=“kharagpur”
- 49. Translate tweets
- 50. YQL has more to it
- 51. There’s also Yahoo Pipes to do this visually
- 53. Data however is not enough.
- 54. You also need working interfaces
- 55. Technologies are easy: HTML CSS Javascript
- 56. Making it work on all browsers and OS is tricky
- 57. So, we have YUI!
- 60. You can build and wait for people to come
- 61. Or build where people are already there
- 63. Where to host your hack?
- 64. h"p://signup.joyent.com/yahoo_signup Talk to us ot host at h"p://www.hackyourworld.org
- 65. How about some Hack examples?
- 67. Webmeme is powered by YUI, YQL, BOSS and backtype.
- 75. Presenting your hack
- 76. Do not show us slides about your hack Powerpoint = Fail!
- 77. Instead show us what you have done
- 78. Technical glitches happen Technical glitches happen
- 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!
- 81. Lets have a demo
- 82. Updatesville
- 83. Hack Resources • 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
- 84. Innovation is not a skill
- 85. It is about wanting to change what we have and be ready to play
- 87. The web is yours, go out and play!
- 88. THANKS! Saurabh Sahni h"p://www.saurabhsahni.com h"p://twi"er.com/saurabhsahni h"p://github.com/saurabhsahni h"p://slideshare.net/saurabhsahni
Hinweis der Redaktion
- 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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