Hackday Saturday 24th May, 2008

The _new_ Liip offices at Feldstrasse 133

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/upcoming%3Aevent%3D472763/

• 10:00am: Intro
• 10:01am: Start hacking, start TestFest
• 12:30pm: Lunch at Lily's Stomach Supply Zürich
• 13:30pm: Back from lunch - any lightning talks and random topics (for those interested)
• 17:00pm+ Hack / TestFest lighting talks - round up days activities
• Some Beer (and other liquids) sponsored by Liip :)
• end time undefined - when people ready or Liip throws us out

Max time: 10 minutes Max slides: if you have to have slides, max 5 - better just stuff to demo

Tips - don't read bullet points from slides, assume intelligence from the audience, less is more

Short version: a day spent hacking with like minds.

Long version: either...

• Pick a mission that fits well into one day; could be anything - some ongoing thing you like to spend free time on, a mini project that fits well into a day, some thing you've been meaning to try out or even running "teaching session" where you demo features of your favorite editor - add a short description below if you'd like company
• Help out with one of the other hacks - see the list below
• Simply hang out and meet people

• Harry Fuecks
• Lukas Kahwe Smith
• Thomas Koch
• Hannes Gassert
• Leo Büttiker
• Sebastian Schürmann
• Silvan Mühlemann
• Etienne Kneuss
• Jordi Boggiano
• Joel Bez
• Axel Beckert (Will come later, probably for lunch.)
• traviscrawford
• add your name...

Add your hack below...

• Lead: Harry Fuecks
• Contributors: <anyone>, <wishing to>, <participate>
• Description: README

• Lead: Leo Büttiker
• Contributors: <anyone>, <wishing to>, <participate>
• Description: Searching the shortest path is usfull for a lot of things like search the shortest click path between two wikipedia pages, the shortest connection between to user of a social network and well the way on a map (and sure a lot more scientific stuff). I'd like to implement the wikipedia example as a proof-of-concept in Java (or if somebody like in another language).

• Lead: TBD
• Contributors: <anyone>, <wishing to>, <participate>
• Description: Something with Esper http://esper.codehaus.org/, no idea what yet –leo

• Lead: Thomas Koch
• Contributors: <anyone>, <wishing to>, <participate>
• Description: Writing a PHP extension to wrap libical. libical is a library to parse, build and modify vCard

and iCalendar structures.

• Lead: Axel Beckert
• Contributors: Tobias Klauser and anyone who needs such software, too.
• Description: A caching feed proxy
• Problem: Many (RSS, RDF Atom, etc,) feeds contain not that much items (often only one), but change often (or have only one item and that one changes daily) and your feed reader needs to permanently online to not miss an item before it rotated out of the feed.
• Idea: A caching proxy which caches not whole feeds but the items plus their container separately so that it can offer a feed containing more items at once than the original feed has. Needs to fetch cached feeds regularily by itself.
• Target Interface: HTTP Proxy, alternatively a $PATH_INFO based CGI script so that you only need to prepend the CGI's path to the feed path. (e.g. like the http://web.archive.org/ interface)
• Programming Language: Ruby, WEBrick Framework
• Known alternative and existing solutions to the problem:
  • Use a web-based service like Google Reader
  • Use a text-mode feed reader inside screen(1) on a permanently running machine and connect via SSH.
  • Use a feed reader which can use Google Reader as backend (Heard that an upcoming version of Liferea can do that in some way)
• Mercurial Repository at http://noone.org/hg/sfc-proxy

• Lead: Patrick
• Contributors: <anyone>, <wishing to>, <participate>
• Programming language: bash, php
• Rest Framework: okapi http://okapi.liip.ch/
• Description: have written a batch screenshotter for windows (IE6 & IE7) and linux (Firefox). What is missing is a simple gui (registration, add links to shot, ...)
• ideas: integrate linklog (from fluxcms) with a thumbservice?

• Lead: Joel Bez
• Contributors: <anyone>, <wishing to>, <participate>
• Description: The teletext.ch website is really cool to get news from but the interface just sucks. The idea is to pimp it up with some fancy javascript and add some itteraction.

• Lead: <your name>
• Contributors: <anyone>, <wishing to>, <participate>
• Description: <a few sentences here>

In parallel Lukas Smith and some other PHP names will be occupying a corner and running an instance of TestFest - a community effort to get 100% test coverage of the PHP codebase. Join in for an hour or two and you'll get a primer on writing PHP test cases - write at least 5 tests and win a T-Shirt recording your contribution to PHP.