Hackdays - How Much Preparation is Acceptable?


A little chocolate frog on a phone screen.

I don't watch much TV. During the last episode of The Apprentice, my Twitter-feed was suddenly flooded with people talking about Nick Holzherr's app "Whisk". Apparently it was some kind of recipe / shopping / mash up thing called Whisk. Sounded good. Sounded familiar. Then I remembered this from CadburyHack Cadbury UK@CadburyUKBest use of APIs at #CadburyHack - Whisk team for their recipes mashup pic.x.com/e9ztkuy3❤️ 0💬 0🔁 017:23 - Sun 27 May 2012 Now, I didn't see either the TV show or the…

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Choc In To Joyville - Cadbury's Hackday


Before Cadbury's inaugural hackday began there were a number of rumblings on the blogs about the extact nature of Cadbury's intentions. See Thayer Prime's and Emma Mulqueeny's thoughts on the subject. As it happens, after a bit of gentle poking, some of the terms were clarified. The event itself went rather well, but I'd like to point out a few points where it didn't quite live up to the Hack Day Manifesto. Registration - due to some confusion with the registration form, some entrants were …

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