Archive for December 10th, 2006
Missing Hack Day
Thursday/Friday was the Q4 Hack Day at Yahoo!. I’m pretty bummed that I didn’t take part this time around. The shingles were too much, I wasn’t going to (nor should I have tried, really) make it up for 24 hours to implement my hack. I actually have what I think is a great hack idea, too. So instead I’ll sit on it and either use it at the Q107 Hack Day (in March) or I’ll just work on it in my spare time and show it at one of the weekly Hack Lunches (yes, a group of us gets together every Wednesday for food and hackery).
Anyway, some other people have been mentioning Hack Day. I still think Hack Day is awesome. It helps to have executive support and I’m very fortunate to have managers that encourage participation. Unfortunately, neither of my hacks has been productized, but I’m hoping to change that once we’ve released the Yahoo! Mail Web Service to the public (yes, I wrote my last hack using the open web service).
For those wondering, yes…we’re still releasing the mail web service. Just sit tight.
December 10, 2006
