Showcase of Projects from Hack U at the University of Washington

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Show projects from Hack U at the University of Washington.

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Hacks

Scrabbliscious

Place letters on a board and spell.

Code: Java / Swing

flickr alarm

http://students.washington.edu/yskhoo/flickralarm/index.html

Alarm application that pulls from flickr tags; requires matching the tags to the image in order to turn off the alarm.

  • Initial list of words to get the list of images
  • Pull images with at least three images
  • Look up synonyms
  • Render the page

WikiBot

Interactive look-up of questions from WikiPedia. Example noted was the creator of PHP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf

Chili recipe

16 step process for getting chili recipes.

gimmethatchili

Code: Rails

Global Chat

Google maps based chat based on the IP of the user. Chat room ID based on the location identifier provided by Yahoo!

http://students.washington.edu/ckwalsh/hacku/

Rasmus: PHP! Marty: Who created PHP? "Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, who rewrote the parser that formed PHP 3"…?

Google Maps Packgman

Map data converted to PacMan. Use caching of street view data to determine available paths.

mNetfree

Allow mobile phone access to IMAP account.

Pandopic

Refinement of picture selection from Flickr

? http://abstract.cs.washington.edu/~kdor7

SkyNet Search

GeoSlideShow

Get pictures of a particular location based on navigation through the Yahoo! Maps API.

Code: Adobe Air

Get Syncy

http://getsyncy.com/

Summarize what people are talking about based on Twitter tags then cross-referenced to Yahoo! news results.

Douglas Crockford: JavaScript: The Good Parts

Author: Jason Walsh

j@wal.sh

Last Updated: 2025-07-30 13:45:27

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