http://www.fanatic.net.nz/2006/04/11/microsoft-hack-day-is-creative-play-at-work/ All about Windows Live Messenger, providing news, reviews, support, and information for developing and improving your Messenger experience. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:53:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.fanatic.net.nz/2006/04/11/microsoft-hack-day-is-creative-play-at-work/#comment-312 Fanatic Live » Blog Archive » Hack Day video at Channel 9 Thu, 04 May 2006 11:38:30 +0000 http://www.fanatic.net.nz/2006/04/11/microsoft-hack-day-is-creative-play-at-work.html#comment-312 [...] Sure are hearing a lot about the Hack Day event last month (see 1, 2, 3). This time I’m reporting about a Channel 9 video called Windows Live Hack Day 2006 which was published on Tuesday. The summary is as follows: How do you tryout a bunch of APIs (including Search, Expo, and more) all at once? You have a Windows Live ‘Hack Day’, gather developers together into one place, feed them and set them loose trying to build as many cool apps as they can. [...] [...] Sure are hearing a lot about the Hack Day event last month (see 1, 2, 3). This time I’m reporting about a Channel 9 video called Windows Live Hack Day 2006 which was published on Tuesday. The summary is as follows: How do you tryout a bunch of APIs (including Search, Expo, and more) all at once? You have a Windows Live ‘Hack Day’, gather developers together into one place, feed them and set them loose trying to build as many cool apps as they can. [...]

]]> http://www.fanatic.net.nz/2006/04/11/microsoft-hack-day-is-creative-play-at-work/#comment-73 Fanatic Live » Blog Archive » Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:37:47 +0000 http://www.fanatic.net.nz/2006/04/11/microsoft-hack-day-is-creative-play-at-work.html#comment-73 [...] Another follow up today, this time on the Hack Day as reported on Tuesday. Daniel from the Windows Live Messenger blog has posted about it: This was my first Hack Day event. I didn’t hack Messenger - it would have been unfair for the rest of the hackers ;). First I worked with two other Messenger devs (Justin and Ravi) on a search macro to search the top Messenger forums. Next I moved on to hack the new Expo API which was totally new to me. I enjoyed eating a lot of pizza, setting up the environment, reading and trying samples, but I didn’t come up with anything worth to present. Maybe next time :) At the end of the event, judges picked the best hacks and awarded prizes, the best of which was an XBox 360 premium with accessories. To my surprise our Messenger Forums Search Macro won second place and a remote controlled truck. [...] [...] Another follow up today, this time on the Hack Day as reported on Tuesday. Daniel from the Windows Live Messenger blog has posted about it: This was my first Hack Day event. I didn’t hack Messenger - it would have been unfair for the rest of the hackers ;). First I worked with two other Messenger devs (Justin and Ravi) on a search macro to search the top Messenger forums. Next I moved on to hack the new Expo API which was totally new to me. I enjoyed eating a lot of pizza, setting up the environment, reading and trying samples, but I didn’t come up with anything worth to present. Maybe next time At the end of the event, judges picked the best hacks and awarded prizes, the best of which was an XBox 360 premium with accessories. To my surprise our Messenger Forums Search Macro won second place and a remote controlled truck. [...]

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