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Reinvent Local @ General Assembly This Weekend

This weekend General Assembly is hosting the Reinvent Local Hack Day. Hyperpublic, and companies like American Express Open Forum, Yipit, NYC.gov, ordr.in, and more will be presenting tools and services that they've built aimed at helping local businesses connect with their communities.

If you have any good ideas for applications that you'd like to see built that help you interact with the local businesses around you then swing on by General Assembly, or tweet using the #reinventlocal hashtag, and maybe your idea will come to life this weekend.

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Nov 2

APIs For Beginners @Hyperpublic

On Thursday, November 3rd, Hyperpublic's head of engineering, Doug Petkanics, will be teaching a Skillshare class called "APIs For Beginners." The class will start with the basics, and will cover the following:

What is an API?
What type of data and services do companies make available via APIs?
Why would I use APIs?
How do I use APIs?

There is no prior programming experience required, but as APIs are quite literally "programming interfaces", you will have to do some light programming in order to make use of the data you get through the APIs.

We'll talk about APIs from companies like Flickr, Paypal, Google, and Twitter. You'll learn how to get data from them and what you can do with their services. If you're interested in getting started with building web applications, then this class will provide a good introduction to the types of data and services you can leverage to speed up your development and enhance your applications.

Limited tickets are still available so sign up today. All proceeds from the ticket sales will be donated to HackNY.

Hyperpublic events

Aug 2

Developer Tech Talk - Monads

Is there anything more confusing to the non-Haskell coder than Monads? On Wednesday, August 3rd at 12:30pm, Hyperpublic's very own functional programming expert, @mkscrg will be presenting the talk which aims to answer the question, "Are Monads the best thing since sliced bread?"

No spoilers here, you'll have to come to the talk to hear the answer. In the word's of Mike...

Monads are one the most talked about "features" of the Haskell language. The web abounds with monad tutorials and monad examples, yet they maintain a reputation for giving newcomers a hard time. What are monads, and what are they good for? Do you even have to code in Haskell to use them? We'll approach monads from a problem-oriented perspective, with discussions of some other important type classes along the way.

If you want to participate in this week's developer lunch, shoot an email to doug@hyperpublic.com to let us know you're coming, and bring lunch to our office at 12:30 on Wednesday, August 3rd.

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Monads events

May 16

Look for Hyperpublic at Hackdisrupt

What's up people? This weekend, May 21-22, the Hyperpublic engineering team will be hanging out at the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon in New York City at Pier 94. We'll present our developer platform on Saturday afternoon to anyone who's interested in learning how to build an application which leverages rich local data.

We've been looking forward to this event for months. There will be 500 hackers who will form teams and build projects over a 24 hour period, competing for prizes, glory, and the honor that comes with completing 24 hours of coding fueled exclusively by pizza and energy drinks. If you see @ericxtang, ask him to brew you up a Red Monster.

All the details regarding how to participate and signup in the event can be found here. What are you planning to build?

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Reinvent Local @ General Assembly This Weekend

APIs For Beginners @Hyperpublic

Developer Tech Talk - Monads

Look for Hyperpublic at Hackdisrupt

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