Hackfest02 Complete!

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!