ryan kennedy’s blog

Months ago we had an internal programming contest at Yahoo! to see who could build the coolest plugin for the Yahoo! Music Engine. A bunch of people entered and three won prizes…cold, hard, cash. I tried getting something together for the contest, but I fell short of getting anything decent running in time.

So when the latest contest was announced, I told myself I would NOT be missing it. The deadline is tonight (12/29) at midnight and I submitted my entry about 15 minutes ago. It feels great to have written something in my spare time. I haven’t really done that in a while. I wrote the Java search SDK for the Yahoo! Developer Network, but that’s different. I wrote that for a bunch of other people to use. I really don’t use it myself. The thing I wrote over the past week or two I’ll actually use, which probably explains how I managed to actually finish it. I think this fulfills my earlier idea to just start up my own hack day. Okay, it was more than a day (a lot more), but I’ll take it.

I think the rules of the contest prevent me from talking openly about what I’m working on right now, but I think that’s only because of the blind judging system they’ve set up. After the judging is done I’ll be able to talk more about it and even share it with anyone interested.

Now I just need to figure out what to hack on in January.

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