Intro to Yahoo Tech

Saturday, September 28, 13

Intro to Yahoo Tech for Hackers

Dav Glass (@davglass)

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Hacking is nothing new

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Hacking in a hostel room@davglass

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Life Hacks

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The question is though:where do I start?

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A good hack starts with an idea…

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Find a problem that needs solving and then have a go at solving it!

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To build a typical web hack you need data,

access and an interface

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The web has a lot of data sitting around

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ProgrammableWeb.Com – 10,000+ APIs

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http://developer.yahoo.com@davglass

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YQL turns the internet into a database.

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http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console@davglass

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Data however is not enough.

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You also need working interfaces

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Technologies are easy:HTMLCSS

Javascript

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Making it work on all browsers and OS’s is

tricky

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So, we have YUI!

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http://yuilibrary.com/

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http://yuilibrary.com/@davglass

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http://purecss.io

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http://purecss.io

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http://purecss.io

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You do not want to write multiple versions

of the same app for different devices

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So, we open sourced

http://developer.yahoo.com/cocktails/mojito/

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Connected TV

Contacts

Content Analysis

Design Patterns

Sports

Finance

Flickr

GeoPlanet

Hadoop

Local

Mail

Messenger

Mojito

Music

Oauth

Open ID

http://developer.yahoo.com/everything.html

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https://github.com/yahoo@davglass

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Fivethings to

remember

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1. Don’t concentrate on your favorite toys

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

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3. Don’t look for features.

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4. Find things that already work

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5. You only have 24 hours

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Dav’s Last Words of Advice?

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Show the!@#$%^& Hack!

You’ve only got ~90 seconds, make them count!

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Have Fun!

@davglass

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