It’s been a few days since I returned home from London HackDay 2007, the first Yahoo! and BBC sponsored Hackday in Europe was a hit success, this was surely a weekend I won’t forget for a long time.

I have no words to describe how fantastic all of this was, there were talks about many of Yahoo’s and BBC’s API’s and other subjects, a enormous palace, pizza, lightning, indoor rain, faceball, blimps, annoying Nazbatag’s, Lego NXT robots with stencils, Doctor Who, GPS, mentos and coke experiences, Halo 2 multiplayer combat, playing Rayman on the Wii , lot’s of bluetooth and wi-fi hacks, the Rumble Strips concert, beanbags (I got mine!) and over seventy strange, creative and fantastic projects submitted for appreciation by the HackDay judges.

Want to know more?

• See the photos in the Flickr Gallery;
• Watch the short version of the Hack Day London Video (or the 15 minute long uncut one);
• Read the article from Wired Magazine;
• See or experience the winning hacks from HackDay at Yahoo! Developer website or in the wiki;

Anyway, I hope this serves as an example and more events like this show up in Europe, I guess when people feel they’ll learn a lot from the experience, they’ll participate and endure heaven and earth for things to be successful (even indoor raining).

So Kudos to the all the backstage crew at Yahoo and BBC for putting together this amazing event and all the great people who participated.

Greeting from London.

I’ve arrived today after a 2 hour peaceful flight from Portugal, everything went smoothly and thanks to the hotel’s free WI-FI connection I can write something up as I collect my thoughts from the day.

I didn’t manage to see a lot from London today but what matters is that tomorrow is the beginning of HackDay, from what I can see from the profiles page at the official website, there’s people coming to this event from most of Europe (but mostly Britain) so I’m guessing there’s alot of expectation and anxiety for tomorrow’s events.

I’m hoping forward for some of the morning sessions on Yahoo! API’s (like Maps, Flickr, Local & Answers, etc) and the YUI Library. I’m not going with the intention of directly competing for the event’s prizes, I want to learn as much as possible and use the occasion to share experiences with other developers.

hey Apple Fans!

Actually, I’m not going to talk about Apple today, although all attentions must be set at Steve Jobs keynote at WWDC 2007 for the next day or two. (c’mon, I was expecting more for the iPhone!)

I’ve been truly busy in the last few days and haven’t given much attention to the blog but I’ll put some effort in the next days.

Anyway, I recently discovered Google Patents and decided to list the top 5 most interesting patents I’ve found.

1. Electrified table - cloth