Wow! What a blast. Hackday (a.k.a. Nerding Man) turned out to be everything that we hoped it would and more. We had an awesome turnout of “hackers”, some rockin’ music provided by Beck, and free food and beer … hard to complain about that.

I was fortunate enough to help contribute to the winning hack, details of which can be read here: http://developer.yahoo.net/hackday/2006/10/the_hack_day_winners_list.html

The Ladies of Black Box Nation are phenomenal. Please do yourselves a favor and check out their site: http://blogginginmotion.com/

All I really did was give them an interesting view of the photos their blogging purse captured. In order to achieve the flipbook effect, I simply modified the code available at http://www.iparigrafika.hu/pageflip/ to:
1- take a generic xml schema I defined as an input format
2- take flickr xml as an input format

I’ve heard rumors that it’s a bit CPU intensive, but hey it’s a hack. I need to queue the image loading, right now it’s tries to load all 10 at once, heh. It works fine for me, and the girls seemed to like it (it even made it into their demo), so I can’t complain.

Here is the result: http://blogginginmotion.com/Flipr/

Of course I will update the effect and publish the source when I find time (don’t hold your breath), and all updates will be available at http://caleb.org/Flipr/, but for now it’s just the same code as the Ladies of Black Box Nation have hosted on their site.

I will post more about hackday later, and there are some interesting changes regarding the Yahoo API’s available on developer network, so stay tuned.