The past little while I’ve been planning a Hack Day for the company that I work for.

We were originally supposed to hold it a few months back but some project deadlines got in the way and it inevitably got delayed.

However, we’re in the home stretch and we’ll actually be holding the event tomorrow, November 24th at our Victoria office. It’s an internal only event (unlike Yahoo’s latest endeavor) but it should be a lot of fun. We’ve managed to get a bit of a budget for it so we’ll be handing out a few prizes.

Essentially, the goal of this event is to give our developers (and QA/CS/Profession Services, etc.) an opportunity to explore technologies and/or frameworks that they wouldn’t normally get to deal with in the course of normal work. Everyone has an idea of something cool to do but it’s a rarity to have the time to actually do something… we’re hoping to present that opportunity.

It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out, I’m hoping that this is the first of many hack fests.

Time to get back to my Rails hack.