Introduction to Yahoo Tech and the Hack Culture

1. Saturday, September 28, 13

2. Intro to Yahoo Tech for Hackers
Dav Glass (@davglass)
Saturday, September 28, 13

3. Hacking is nothing new
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4. Hacking in a hostel room
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5. Life Hacks
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6. The question is though:
where do I start?
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7. A good hack starts with an idea…
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8. Find a problem that
needs solving and then
have a go at solving it!
@davglass
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9. To build a typical web
hack you need data,
access and an interface
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10. The web has a lot of data sitting
around
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11. ProgrammableWeb.Com – 10,000+ APIs
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12. http://developer.yahoo.com
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13. YQL turns the internet
into a database.
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14. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console
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15. Data however is not
enough.
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16. You also need working
interfaces
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17. Technologies are easy:
HTML
CSS
Javascript
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18. Making it work on all
browsers and OS’s is
tricky
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19. So, we haveYUI!
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20. http://yuilibrary.com/
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21. http://yuilibrary.com/
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22. http://purecss.io
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23. http://purecss.io
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24. http://purecss.io
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25. You do not want to
write multiple versions
of the same app for
different devices
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26. So, we open sourced
http://developer.yahoo.com/cocktails/mojito/
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27. @davglass
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28. 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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29. https://github.com/yahoo
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30. Five
things to
remember
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31. 1. Don’t concentrate on your favorite toys
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32. 2. A good hack doesn’t need to be a big thing
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33. 3. Don’t look for features.
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34. 4. Find things that already work
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35. 5.You only have 24 hours
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36. Dav’s Last Words of Advice?
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37. Show the
!@#$%^& Hack!
You’ve only got ~90 seconds, make them count!
@davglass
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38. Have Fun!
@davglass
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