Innovating the Hacker Way

Balaji Narayanan

Hacking 101

Hacking?

“Someone who makes furniture with an axe”

- Hacker in German

hacker: n. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities

“Hacking” is a constructive term.

“Cracking” is destructive

“Altering a system to do what you want it to do using

what is at your disposal”

- Christian Heilmann

Hack Day

24 hours of un-interrupted, unrestrained coding and

innovation

Hack

Eat

Get Help

Recharge

Hack

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Fix

Present

Win

Have Fun

Where do I start?

A good hack starts with an idea…

Fix something you use every day

http://www.flickr.com/photos/justinpoliachik/3893820201/

Scratch your own itch

Build something you will use yourself

Hack for Good - Make the world a better place

Go local – tools for helping your local community

http://developer.yahoo.com

http://www.github.com/

Show us what can be built using the systems we

(and others) offer.

http://www.crosstag.me

http://fakemytrip.mygola.com

http://fakemytrip.mygola.com

Presenting your hack

Do not show us slides about your hack

Show us what you have done

Technical glitches happen

Have a plan-B

And once you are done

Keep your hack live for others to see

Show other hackers what you have done

Publish your code on github

Join us and take it even further!

How we judge the hacks

• Working Prototype• Solves a real problem• Great User Experience• Uses data or technology in a unique and

interesting way• Uses technology or data from Yahoo!• X-factor!

Fivethings to remember

1. Don’t concentrate on your favorite toys

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2. A good hack doesn’t need to be a big thing

3. Don’t look for features.

4. Find things that already work

5. You only have 24 hours

Innovation has no limits

Go Hack !!!Have Fun

• twitter:• @hackuindia – event info• #hacku – add to all tweets

• flickr: #hacku• irc: #hacku

Balaji Narayanan@balajijeganhttp://balajin.net/blog/http://slideshare.net/balajijegan/

Thank You

Hack Resources• http://developer.yahoo.com• http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console• http://github.com/yahoo• http://hackyourworld.org/• http://github.com/codepo8/hackday-toolbox/• http://talks.php.net/show/hacku/