So it's now twenty past two Sunday morning and Hackday is quietly continuing.

Today has been an interesting day, which has include a lightning strike that seemed to take out the wifi and triggered the fire protection systems. The Result bizarrely being that a bunch of hydraulically powered doors in the roof opened; letting in the rain!

This resulted in a generally moving of bodies from the main hall to the foyer, till the issue was resolved.
It also messed up the WiFi access points which proceeded to be flakey for quite a while. Which limits the ability to hack together exciting web apps, if you can't get online.

In a surprise early win for Team SSDC, I have completed a Hack already!

I have used the new API from www.mybloglog.com and the API from www.nabaztag.com and merged them.

Basically, I can poll the mybloglog data to see who the last person to visit the site was. Then, I can check if it's changed from the last time I checked. Then if it has I send a message to the Nabaztag API telling it to say who visited.

This hack came about because of a suggestion of Micah Laker (http://www.laaker.com/micah/). He also helped ALOT with getting it together (cheers!). Laurent of Violet (makers of the Nabaztag) also helped alot with my cruddy PHP skills and of course by bringing over a box of shiny new Nabaztag/tags one of which is sitting next to me now!

Stay tuned for more later...

(cross posted at www.siliconsouls.com)

Hi,
really pleased that I completed a hack this evening.

I have used the new API from www.mybloglog.com and the API from www.nabaztag.com and merged them.

Basically, I can poll the mybloglog data to see who the last person to visit the site was. Then, I can check if it's changed from the last time I checked. Then if it has I send a message to the Nabaztag API telling it to ay who visited.

Easy!

Pleased to "have one in the bag", so to speak. Didn't really expect to actually be able to do something. So it s nice to have been able to work with the APIs and to do something new with them.

Hi,

well this is the last post from home, the next one will be from Alexandra Palace and HackDay London.

I have been thinking about what to do and I think (maybe) that I have a good idea.
Probably something to do with www.Plazes.com I think maybe linking upcoming. So that perhaps when go to a new plaze, it searches upcoming for that geo and then...

Dunno.

We shall see.

Can't wait!

So... I'm heading to London for Hackdaylondon it's all about tacking those strands of data (okay pipes) and gluing them together to make something else.

Since finding out I was going I have been racking my brain for ideas for a hack or two. And slowly ever so slowly the ideas are coming. I am wondering about hacks that are Judo specific (of course).

Maybe some way of scraping the IJF/EJU/BJA (or USA JUDO) sites and piping it into upcoming? Also thinking about Plazes and if there is a hack there somewhere.

Any bright ideas?



P.s. I shall also be blogging about the event, mainly at www.siliconsouls.com probably.

WOOT!!

Guess where I am going this weekend!