1. Welcome to the IBM Hackathon
at ZendCon 2014
Carl Osipov, IBM, @CloudsWithCarl
Joshua Solomin, Zend, @JSolomin
2. Ground Rules (1 of 2)
Build an application to wow your audience, the
attendees of ZendCon 2014
Work individually or as a team of up to 3
people
One prize per team
Use Zend Server 7 / PHP on Bluemix
Zend and IBM people are around to help
Sample code is available, check your hackathon registration
email
github.com/IBM-Bluemix/zendcon-2014-hackathon
Think of your own application idea or
do something with
wearable and mobile application backends
API composition
3. Ground Rules (2 of 2)
Ensure that your application is accessible to
anyone on the Internet via a URL
Tweet @IBMBluemix with your application URL
and #zendcon to describe what you built
ZendCon attendees will be tweeting and
retweeting about your applications
Hackathon starts at 8pm on Tuesday and ends
at 4pm on Wednesday
We will contact you via email tomorrow after
6pm if you were selected to present
Use common sense: We reserve the right to
ignore any project that we deem inappropriate
4. Tools at your disposal
Bluemix PaaS
Code the way you want. Deploy in seconds. Scale as needed.
Reuse services like IBM Watson, MySQL, Twilio.
Start with a free trial. Experiment with a free tier for every
service.
Zend Server 7
Fast PHP environment with extensions and libraries
preconfigured
Use Z-Ray to rapidly find problems while you code
Execution time, database queries, functions, request details, and
more
Sample code github.com/IBM-Bluemix/zendcon-2014-hackathon
IBM Watson for Travel, Cloudant (CouchDB) NoSQL, Internet of Things
MySQL
Sendgrid, Twilio
5. Top 12 Selection Process
Starting at 5pm on Wednesday, judges from Zend will
monitor tweets mentioning @IBMBluemix and
#zendcon to learn about your applications
Tweets that get the most retweets and favorites will be
filtered out by the judges and the corresponding
projects will be selected for the top 12
If your application is selected by the judges, we will
contact at 6pm on Wednesday using the email you
provided when you registered for the hackathon.
6. If you receive an email notifying you that you were
selected for the top 12, please be ready to present
your app during a 5 minute lightning talk between 8
and 9:30pm on Wednesday
Our distinguished panel of handpicked judges will
review the top 12 projects presented at the Wed event
and choose the top 3 prize winners
Judges
Matthew Weier O’Phinney
Michelangelo van Dam
@DragonBe
Rob Allen
Judges Panel
7. Prizes
Each winning team (or individual) will be awarded a
Raspberry Pi dev kit on Thursday
during the closing keynote