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Saturday Jun 16 2007

Hack London

I'm writing this entry live from the Hackday London organised by Yahoo! and BBC Backstage. At the moment there are some quite interesting sessions going on and the actual hacking will kick off after lunch. I'll try to update this post as this excellent event evolves!

For now, check out the Hackday London Backnetwork site. My profile on it is right here.

View my Hack Day Flickr stream

Update: As you've noticed I haven't really gotten to post more updates. The verdict on the first EU Open Hackday: absolutely brilliant. A most awesome event with great people and a superb atmosphere. I enjoyed every minute of it. A whopping 73 different hacks in a wide variety was the result of this great weekend.

I ended up helping out a team with a pure Javascript hack using Greasemonkey, Yahoo! Pipes, YUI and various other Yahoo! APIs. Greasemonkey was one of those things I never got to really look into before which is why it was great to hack around with it for a night. And as a cherry on the pie the guys even ended up winning a prize with it which made it totally worthwhile.

I'm already looking forward to the next Hack Day!

If you weren't here on this edition make sure you don't miss the next one!

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