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5 STEPS FROM IDEA TO HACKATHON-WINNING APP

Original post by  jayjay, angelhack.com In case you missed it, our AngelHack San Francisco winning app was Peppermint, an online community where people can give feedback – in the same vein as Stack Overflow – on pitches. AngelHack’s Jay Rooney sat down with Kasey Robinson, the app’s designer, to walk us through her team’s process, from […]

Berlin Hackathon Begin

By JEREMY TAMMIK I arrived safe and sound for the Berlin hackathon. Topics for today, three on the Revit API and three not: Traffic jams and too many cars Intro to functional programming in JavaScript Aligning multiple elements Render to PDF Displaying transient graphics in a preview control Berlin hackathon beginning Traffic Jams and Too Many […]

How To Present A Successful Hackathon Demo

Original post by Brandon Kessler via TC It’s sad to stay up for three days building something awesome only to bomb the demo presentation. It’s no surprise it happens: you’re exhausted and racing to finish your project, with little time to plan your words, and only a few minutes to say them. So here’s some advice on […]

The Future Smart City Will Be Built Around You and the Internet of You

Original post by Mike Steep via Forbes Pssshhhhhhtttt. Like a shot of steam in your morning latte, the sound of train doors opening injects vitality into any urban commute. But imagine that at 7:18 a.m. on Monday in the London Underground the red doors stay open and quiet, and stay, and stay . . . Inside the […]

22 Experimental WebGL Demo Examples

Original post by Awwwards Team WebGL is a web standard created to display 3D graphics in any platform that supports OpenGL. It makes use of the HTML5 Canvas element to generate graphics dynamically from script code, so there’s no need to install plug-ins in the web browser. It includes some libraries that are currently in development, such as C3DL and WebGLU. This javascript API is managed by the consortium of nonprofit technology Khronos Group since early 2009 which together with the Mozilla Foundation created a workgroup in which they could experimentally develop  prototypes and deployed applications using this […]