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Hack Week at Dropbox

• mcdowall 16y ago
  Looking forward to putting some of these into action. Great office setup too, a tad jealous!
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• sayemm 16y ago
  Just curious... is there currently anything out there now that automatically synchs the contacts of your phone's addressbook to Dropbox?
  • roxstar 16y ago
    Not that I know of but google sync manages it quite well for smartphones (though it is syncing it to a gmail account and not dropbox).
    • sayemm 16y ago
      Yeah I know google sync, but think it would be pretty awesome if I could back that all up across several different platforms via Dropbox, along with all my laptop/work stuff
      • lgarron 16y ago
        Dropbox is a folder dropbox, it's not MobileMe, or WhateverCompanyComprehensiveDataCloudSolution. (Although doesn't Google already do everything but files pretty well?)
      • appliedluck 16y ago
        I don't think I've seen anyone attempt to do it with the Dropbox API and your mobile contacts, but I'm pretty sure it could be done.
        • sayemm 16y ago
          Yup, that's what I'm thinking... I think it would be cool to hack something up like that.
        • ambirex 16y ago
          I've been playing with creating a CardDAV server, which is pretty mush shuffling vCard files around. You could probably something similar with Dropbox.
  • crocowhile 16y ago
    Android syncs your addressbook with gmail. Is it the only one to do that?
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• ivankirigin 16y ago
  This was so much fun. The quality of the projects was astounding.
• chadaustin 16y ago
  Well played, Dropbox. IMVU has quarterly, company-wide hack weeks but we've never written a blog post as fun as this one and CERTAINLY never exposed the list of projects we worked on. That took guts but it looks like it turned out well.
• jrockway 16y ago
  Quite the mass of cut-n-paste code on the second photo from the top.
  • colbyolson 16y ago
    I don't understand what you're getting at.
    • jrockway 16y ago
      One of the monitors shows: chunk of code identical chunk of code identical chunk of code identical chunk of code I found it amusing.
      • albertzeyer 16y ago
        I doubt it is really identical. You don't really see that on the picture. HTML looks often just like that. (I think it is HTML but you cannot really tell for sure from the picture.)
        • sid0 16y ago
          It's definitely HTML, from https://dl.dropbox.com/s/2pa7akochkgsnos/IMG_0988.JPG https://dl.dropbox.com/s/2pa7akochkgsnos/IMG_0988.JPG. The blocks are definitely not identical either.
      • evgeny0 16y ago
        Full-size image: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/2pa7akochkgsnos/IMG_0988.JPG https://dl.dropbox.com/s/2pa7akochkgsnos/IMG_0988.JPG The blocks are similar, but not identical. If you look closely you can clearly see that the line lengths are different.
• tomerico 16y ago
  Observation: Not a single female in the pictures