Introduction to Hacking

1. Natarajan Kannan Hacking 101

2. Hacking ?

3. “ Someone who makes furniture with an axe ” - Hacker in German

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

5. “ Hacking ” is a constructive term. “ Cracking ” is destructive

6. “ Altering a system to do what you want it to do, using what is at your disposal ” - Christian Heilmann

8. Hack Day 24 hours of uninterrupted, unrestrained coding to solve a problem

9. Hack

10. Eat

11. Get Help

12. Recharge

13. Have Fun

14. Hack http://www.flickr.com/photos/rlerdorf/3250595638/ Fix

15. Present

16. Win

17. Where do I start?

18. A good hack starts with an idea…

19. Fix something you use every day

20. Build something you will use yourself

21. Hack for Good - Make the world a better place

22. Go local – tools for helping your local community

23. Don’t limit yourself to your favorite toys

24. A good hack doesn’t need to be a big thing http://www.flickr.com/photos/capricorndragon/4000384412/

25. Don’t look for features. Concentrate on one thing Don’t look to solve everything

26. You only have 24 hours

27. Find things that already work And put them together

28. Show us what can be built using the systems we (and others) offer.

29. http://developer.yahoo.com

30. http://www.github.com/

31. To build a typical web hack you need data, access to data and an interface

32. Yahoo! has opened up its data

33. Search (BOSS), Flickr, Geo, Social, Mail, Messenger …

34. And so have others

35. Programmable web lists 2182 APIs in their API directory Twitter, Facebook, Google, …

36. To access these you can use YQL

37. YQL is a SQL-Like Language that lets you …

38. … filter, combine, tweak data across hundreds of Web Services. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console

39. How will you build a system to calculate distance between two places?

40. Use Vincenty's formulae

41. Or use YQL

42. select kilometers FROM geo.distance where place1=“lucknow” AND place2=“kanpur”

43. Click to edit Master text styles

44. YQL has more to it

45. Data however is not enough.

46. You also need working interfaces

47. Technologies are easy: HTML, CSS, Javascript

48. Making it work on all browsers and OS is tricky

49. YUI

50. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui

51. What about reach?

52. You can build and wait for people to come

53. Or build where people are already there

54. YAP http://developer.yahoo.com/yap

55. Presenting your hack

56. Do not show us slides about your hack

57. Instead show us what you have done

58. Technical glitches happen

59. Have a plan-B

60. And once you are done

61. Keep your hack live for others to see

62. Show other hackers what you have done

63. Publish your code on github

64. Hacks not limited to web

65. Developer tools, Android, iOS or even hardware hacks are more than welcome.

66. Join us and take it even further!

67. Hack ! Have Fun !

68. Thank You Natarajan Kannan @knutties http://knutties.net/blog/ http://slideshare.net/knutties/ http://twitter.com/knutties

70. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console

71. http://github.com/yahoo

72. http://hackyourworld.org/hackuiitm

73. http://github.com/codepo8/hackday-toolbox/

74. http://talks.php.net/show/hacku/