http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2006/03/26/blown-away-again-by-hack-day/ Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:39:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2006/03/26/blown-away-again-by-hack-day/#comment-401 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:18:08 +0000 http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/?p=120#comment-401 [...] It’s this rapid, entrepreneurial spirit that is still fostered inside Yahoo!, and makes it a very exciting place to work. Even more exciting, the Developer Network (of which I’m now a part of) works on projects like this all the time in efforts to demonstrate and test the very APIs and Web Services we promote. It’s hard to imagine a more collaborative, inspiring environment, especially one built to encourage others (whether individual designers/developers, startups, or even our competitors) to succeed in similar ways using our (and others’) tools. * For more on what Hack Day is, and why it rocks, see Chad Dickerson’s post on Yahoo! Hack Days as well as Matt McAlister’s Top 10 Reasons Hack Day Rocks. [...]

]]> http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2006/03/26/blown-away-again-by-hack-day/#comment-400 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:34:06 +0000 http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/?p=120#comment-400 [...] It’s this rapid, entrepreneurial spirit that is still fostered inside Yahoo!, and makes it a very exciting place to work. Even more exciting, the Developer Network (of which I’m now a part of) works on projects like this all the time in efforts to demonstrate and test the very APIs and Web Services we promote. It’s hard to imagine a more collaborative, inspiring environment, especially one built to encourage others (whether individual designers/developers, startups, or even our competitors) to succeed in similar ways using our (and others’) tools. * For more on what Hack Day is, and why it rocks, see Chad Dickerson’s post on Yahoo! Hack Days as well as Matt McAlister’s Top 10 Reasons Hack Day Rocks. [...]

]]> http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2006/03/26/blown-away-again-by-hack-day/#comment-399 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:43:29 +0000 http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/?p=120#comment-399 [...] and more here: “Hack Day is a day for the celebration of hackerdom, a tip of the hat to the artists among us who express themselves in code, a recognition of the pure joys of creation. Yes, hackers are artists. As I wrote in one of my old InfoWorld columns: ‘If art is making order out of chaos, then software developers are artists at the highest level.’ “ [...]

]]> http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2006/03/26/blown-away-again-by-hack-day/#comment-398 Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:33:54 +0000 http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/?p=120#comment-398 [...] forts of the Yahoo! Developer Network, but also structured internal company events such as Yahoo! Hack Day. This creative and fun day was focused around the idea [...]

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