What the hack? Introducing hacking at the open hack day in Bangalore, India.
Saturday, July 24th, 2010I 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: