Right Here. RightNahoo!
Over the weekend, some of the Realmac team (Dan, Nik, Danny and Keith) headed up to London for Yahoo's OpenHackLondon event. The idea is to show up on Saturday morning, learn about some Yahoo technologies and APIs (such as Maps, Flickr and Fire Eagle) and then spend 24 hours hacking on something related to the APIs which you then demo to a panel of judges on Sunday afternoon.
This was the first time that any of us attended a Hackday, however we're super pleased with our hack: a location-aware desktop application that uses a tonne of APIs to show information near you. One of our goals was to have our 'location browser' available as a download shortly after Hackday finished, so to accompany the release of an experimental build of the application, we've gone through the whole process of building RightYahoo, reflecting on our sleepless 24 hours of hacking to get the application written.
