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title: "Open Hacksgiving 2014 Live Blog"
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tags:
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- lookout
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- hacksgiving
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- lookouteng
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- opensource
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---
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For the past three years at [Lookout](http://hackers.lookout.com) we've hosted
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an event called "[Hacksgiving](http://hacksgiving.com)." Historically the event
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has been focused on cool hacks typically oriented around projects or ideas that
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are internal to Lookout. The first year, for example, a colleague and I
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prototyped the messaging system that would power our [business
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product](https://www.lookout.com/enterprise-mobile-security) the following
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year. Another group of hackers created the precursor to our [signal
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flare](http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/09/lookouts-signal-flare-helps-you-find-lost-android-phones-that-have-dying-batteries/)
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feature that same year (hif I'm remembering correctly).
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This year I figured I'd try something different: **Open Hacksgiving**. I'm going to
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spend the hackathon hacking on open source projects and updating the status of
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those projects here.
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I'll also be lurking in [this gitter.im
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chat](https://gitter.im/lookout/hacksgiving.com) if you're feeling bored or
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want to suggest some issues from GitHub for me to hack on.
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<a name="updates"></a>
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## Updates
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* (13:17 PDT) Concluding the live blogging, and am going to spend some time
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writing up docs and what not. Happy Hacksgiving!
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* (12:09 PDT) Further testing on different machines exposed [this bug
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(#503)](https://github.com/ratpack/ratpack/issues/503) in Ratpack, forcing a
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requirement of JDK8 :(
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* (11:22 PDT) Cut the
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[v0.1.0](https://github.com/rtyler/offtopic/releases/tag/v0.1.0) release of
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Offtopic!. Threw an installation of it on my workstation to display a big
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stream of events in the offics
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* (10:29 PDT) Verified that Offtopic! and the multipass feature works for
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monitoring a number of topics in a Real Usecase™ at [Lookout](http://lookout.com).
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* (09:12 PDT) Coffee made, mail read, picking up where I left off last night
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with some more interesting functionality in Offtopic.
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* (08:30 PDT) Traveling back to the office with more ideas kicking around in my
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head on how to make [Offtopic](https://github.com/rtyler/offtopic) more
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gooder.. Turns out testing something that depends on Zookeeper and Kafka
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being available isn't that great on the bus
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* **Day Two**
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* (23:31 PDT) Not much more cogent thought going into my hacking tonight,
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heading home
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* (23:23 PDT) Hacked some pretty start/stop buttons into the web UI for
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Offtopic to connect/disconnect the websocket.
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* (23:01 PDT) Manage to implement grepping/filtering messages coming through to
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Offtopic
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* (22:19 PDT) Implemented wildcards, hurrah!
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* (21:46 PDT) Starting to figure out topic wildcards to Offtopic!
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* (21:08 PDT) Finished watching The Fifth Element with some coworkers, managed
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to [combining Kafka topic
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streams](https://github.com/rtyler/offtopic/issues/7) implemented!
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* (17:53 PDT) Finished up a few more
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[Offtopic!](https://github.com/rtyler/offtopic) tasks. Feeling confident in
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my ability to figure out problems with Groovy now
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* (17:35 PDT) Recovering from a distraction of real work over another beer.
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Managed to stave off responsibility for another day or two.
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* (16:34 PDT) Beer finished, still chugging away on "Offtopic!", refactoring a
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lot of the messy code that I wrote in anger yesterday
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* (15:51 PDT) Planned a bit of work on
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[Offtopic](https://github.com/rtyler/offtopic) after discussing some useful
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features with coworkers who also want more visibility into Kafka streams
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* (15:36 PDT) Moved downstairs to the kitchen area at Lookout, poured myself a
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beer to celebrate conquering some Gradle work.
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* (15:01 PDT) Managed to get a
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[v0.1.3](https://bintray.com/jruby-gradle/plugins/jruby-gradle-war-plugin/0.1.3/view)
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release of the
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[jruby-gradle-war-plugin](https://github.com/jruby-gradle/jruby-gradle-war-plugin)
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with all my good fixes. Demo app published as
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[hellowarld](https://github.com/rtyler/hellowarld)
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* (14:46 PDT) Finally figured out my issue, it turns out that using Vim to
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inspect the `.war` files was a stupid idea because Vim caches the buffers for
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files within the Zip file, deceiving me into thinking my changes weren't
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actually working! **smashes keyboard**
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* (13:45 PDT) Had to abandon my previous approach of getting a bundled
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`web.xml` inserted into the war file. Somehow I'm now generating a `.war`
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file with a `web.xml` file that doesn't match anything in my current source
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tree. GHOST XMLS
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* (12:23 PDT) Thanks to [this stackoverflow
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post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4317035/how-to-convert-inputstream-to-virtual-file#16028522)
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I've at least got a path forward to fixing the aforementioned issue of
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bundling resources inside my Gradle plugin. Somehow I broke my zips somewhere
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around here: `> java.util.zip.ZipException: too many length or distance
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symbols`
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* (11:43 PDT) Slowing down on progress, trying to resolve [this
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issue](https://github.com/jruby-gradle/jruby-gradle-war-plugin/issues/1),
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which requires Gradle plugin hacking that I've not done before
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* (11:16 PDT) Managed to get a Gradle-built version of
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[hellowarld](https://github.com/rtyler/hellowarld) loaded and executing
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properly inside of Jetty 8
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* (10:54 PDT)
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[jruby-gradle-war-plugin](https://github.com/jruby-gradle/jruby-gradle-war-plugin)
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properly building executable `.war` files with embedded gems.
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* (10:26 PDT) Unblocked coworker with some Gradle hacking, back to my own
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hackz0ring!
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* (09:59 PDT) Context-switch to help another developer use
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[jruby-gradle](https://github.com/jruby-gradle) for their hackathon project.
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* (09:25 PDT) Break-time over, back to baking `.war` files with
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[Gradle](http://gradle.org)
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* (09:15 PDT) Found some breakfast burritos downstairs, burrito break!
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* (08:30 PDT) Writing the live blog post. Coffee made,
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[jruby-gradle-war-plugin](https://github.com/jruby-gradle/jruby-gradle-war-plugin)
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selected as the first project to tinker with.
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