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After following closely what went down at the Yahoo! Hackday in the UK last June, I can be nothing short of ecstatic with the announcement of a similar event taking place right here, in Lisbon!

It will be on the 13th, 14th and 15th of November at the Gare do Porto de Lisboa and it will be made up of presentations, workshops, insomnia (lots, hopefully!), contest and a concert! The contest will run for 24hrs to see who can come up with the best hack/mashup/project/whatever! If you're a developer, have a look at the – very original, I must say – SAPO Codebits website to learn more about this event. There's a blog too.

Obviously, by looking at the name, anyone can tell it's backed up by the almighty SAPO who will put a variety of webservices at everyone's disposal! Should be pretty sweet, given the variety of services they provide, everyone should have plenty of mashups to choose from! The secret ingredient will be, surely, imagination.

This comes at an interesting point, since the debacle of Minho Campus Party showed we've all had our share of LAN parties. This event, takes a huge spin on the concept. Drop the games and put in programming. But leave the fun in the mix! This event will educate whilst promoting the development of longly incubated ideas which can bring out great things into the open, I believe. I, for one, am already sorting things out in my head... How about you?

Oh, of course, I've signed up! I couldn't miss this opportunity, specially since it's just around the corner! The event is limited to roughly 400 people, so if you're interested in technology and also thirsty for knowledge, don't postpone it... sign up now!

I gotta mention the website again. It was great to see a whole website navigable via a command line! Specially when their target is... well, developers! If you can't navigate through the site like that, then this event is probably not for you! Well done, guys.

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