CatHive Hackathon 2014

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23 Aug 2014, 8:49 p.m.
The first-ever CatHive Hackathon is currently in action!

It's taking place in an exclusive location with a very well-stocked bar ... our flat (also known as CatHive). Fortified with pizza and Power Bat, a gang of intrepid hackers and future thought leaders has come together to disrupt the status quo and ninja their way into ... er, something. Mostly, as I mentioned in my last entry, it's an opportunity for David, David and I to get some work done on side projects that have been neglected, with no distractions.

David M has been working on a contribution to TagTime, David S has updated all the data in Which Fish?, and I've been debugging CrowdPee and dusting out its crevices. Now is a good time to let me know if you have any feature requests, by the way. The next things up are finishing off the iPhone app and getting the bot to tweet in different languages.

A hackathon would be nothing, however, without a social media presence, and David S has been ably providing ours.

I really recommend reading the whole stream for today: it's pitch-perfect. Follow tomorrow, too, or check the official hashtag for more updates on our projects, our sponsors and the situation with power outlets and wifi! I'm only a little unnerved that some of my professional contacts are reading it as well...

So far, this has been a pretty low-stress way to get back into the CrowdPee project, and to refresh my memory of Django once again. (I've used it in a few different projects now, notably Bumble and request.opendata.ch in my day job, but always seem to have to re-learn it. One day, I will remember every detail of the QuerySet API and perhaps even understand class-based views, but that may be some time after gender-neutral toilets are an expected standard in bars and restaurants.) What's more, this is the first hacking event I've been to with its own kittens!