We had another Hackfest in Magnet this weekend. The last Hackfest was a roaring success. We had only five participants this time, but it was fun as well. For me, it was a “Samosa to Samosa” hack fest. We started at Saturday 7pm, and I really got on after 3 samosas in my tummy around 8.30! And after a Sunday morning dose of samosas, I started pacing down!
Collectively we did a number of things. Let me put some bullet points:
- Openfire integration with MSN, Yahoo!, Google and AOL messengers. So now we can easily talk to our clients using the same internal Jabber based messenger system.
- Streamlined user level backup system – spanning multiple servers and multiple configurations
- Lot of research on Microsoft Share Point Portal Server
- 3D UI with standard Flex components on Outsmart Labs. Amazing work! I wonder how they are doing it!
- We read a lot of blogs and learnt many new things!
- A lot of QuickSilver hacking
- Batch audio conversion using Switch as I wrote earlier
- Lot of research on mobile and mobile web – the trends, technologies etc
- SQL Injection and general hacking around 😉
- SVN
- MySQL Clustering
- And we watched “Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro” – had a great time laughing! Spent more than an hour getting the VCD to show up on the projector though!
- The dinner and in-between discussions were insightful – we talked on topics ranging from security, grid computing, mobile as a computer, IPTV, Windows hacking, Benefits of eating healthy food, GTD philosophy, planning with a calendar, RSS subscriptions with Thunderbird and MP3 streaming
Good fun as usual! I am always looking forward to Hackfests in Magnet! Missed Kartik, Ameya and Naveen though!
Check your email!
Later,
Sujeet
I had well planned to work on Hacking Gmail. I have a good book with tricks and tips for this and was supposed to try it all in HackFest02.
Other than that I would have loved hacking Openfire, Sql Injection, SVN, MySql Clustering…. and may be some more hacking on time.
And of course missed the fun of watching “Jane Bhi Do Yaro” with hackers.
I really missed it. But had personal problems which I could not avoid.
Awaiting to rock the HackFest03 now. 🙂
Can we have it between 15th-1st July 😉 I am on vacation and can spend one night.
Depends upon some events though 😉