What the hack? Introducing hacking at the open hack day in Bangalore, India.
Saturday, July 24th, 2010 at 6:35 amI am right now at the open hack day in Bangalore, India and just finished giving the keynote presentation showing people what hacking means and how to present at a hack day:
The slides
The resources I talked about:
- Yahoo Developer Network for everything about Yahoo offers
- Google Visualisation API for displaying data in an interesting way
- Programmable Web for APIs
- AppEngine for your app hosting
- GitHub for code hosting
- Heroku for Ruby Hosting
- Yahoo YAP for apps running on Yahoo
- YQL Geo for all your Geo needs in JavaScript
- CSS Grids Builder for creating layouts that work across browsers
- YUI for building interactive web apps
- YQL for mixing and matching the web
The Audio recording
The audio of the recording is available on archive.org:
And the demos:
- GooHooBi uses Google, Bing and Yahoo at the same time for a search query
- The screencast of building GooHooBi shows live how I used YQL to build it
- Keywordfinder.org finds keywords related to a keyword using Yahoo BOSS
- UK house prices uses government data to compare house prices in the UK. It uses the CSS Bar Charts API
- Around You finds you on the planet and shows you Wikipedia content around you
- Warwickshire Hack shows you all the cool things to see in Warwickshire. (source on GitHub, Screencast on YouTube)
- Flickr Collector allows you to find and collect flickr photos. (source on GitHub, Screencast on YouTube)
- FIFA 2010 visualisation
- GeoThis and the hack presentation:
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