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Saturday, September 28, 13
Intro to Yahoo Tech for Hackers
Dav Glass (@davglass)
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Hacking is nothing new
@davglass
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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?
@davglass
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A good hack starts with an idea…
@davglass
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Find a problem that needs solving and then have a go at solving it!
@davglass
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To build a typical web hack you need data,
access and an interface
@davglass
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The web has a lot of data sitting around
@davglass
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ProgrammableWeb.Com – 10,000+ APIs
@davglass
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http://developer.yahoo.com@davglass
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YQL turns the internet into a database.
@davglass
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http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console@davglass
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Data however is not enough.
@davglass
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You also need working interfaces
@davglass
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Technologies are easy:HTMLCSS
Javascript
@davglass
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Making it work on all browsers and OS’s is
tricky
@davglass
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So, we have YUI!
@davglass
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http://yuilibrary.com/
@davglass
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http://yuilibrary.com/@davglass
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You do not want to write multiple versions
of the same app for different devices
@davglass
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So, we open sourced
http://developer.yahoo.com/cocktails/mojito/
@davglass
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@davglass
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Connected TV
Contacts
Content Analysis
Design Patterns
Sports
Finance
Flickr
GeoPlanet
Hadoop
Local
Messenger
Mojito
Music
Oauth
Open ID
http://developer.yahoo.com/everything.html
@davglass
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https://github.com/yahoo@davglass
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Fivethings to
remember
@davglass
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1. Don’t concentrate on your favorite toys
@davglass
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2. A good hack doesn’t need to be a big thing
@davglass
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3. Don’t look for features.
@davglass
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4. Find things that already work
@davglass
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5. You only have 24 hours
@davglass
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Dav’s Last Words of Advice?
@davglass
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Show the!@#$%^& Hack!
You’ve only got ~90 seconds, make them count!
@davglass
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Have Fun!
@davglass
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