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Hack Week at Dropbox

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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.

This was so much fun. The quality of the projects was astounding.

Just curious... is there currently anything out there now that automatically synchs the contacts of your phone's addressbook to Dropbox?

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).

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

Dropbox is a folder dropbox, it's not MobileMe, or WhateverCompanyComprehensiveDataCloudSolution. (Although doesn't Google already do everything but files pretty well?)

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.

Yup, that's what I'm thinking... I think it would be cool to hack something up like that.

I've been playing with creating a CardDAV server, which is pretty mush shuffling vCard files around. You could probably something similar with Dropbox.

Android syncs your addressbook with gmail. Is it the only one to do that?

Looking forward to putting some of these into action.

Great office setup too, a tad jealous!

Observation: Not a single female in the pictures

Quite the mass of cut-n-paste code on the second photo from the top.

I don't understand what you're getting at.

One of the monitors shows:

chunk of code

identical chunk of code

I found it amusing.

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.)

It's definitely HTML, from https://dl.dropbox.com/s/2pa7akochkgsnos/IMG_0988.JPG. The blocks are definitely not identical either.

Full-size image: 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.

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