Joel Hainley

There’s a programmer party down in the valley that I’ve been attending at somewhat regular intervals for the last couple of years called Super Happy Dev House. Mike and I were invited to the party by the elusive Nathan the Kraut ( this is Mike the Quaker’s nickname for him ), it is always interesting because you see a lot of different things and get to talk to the people doing them. There are teams there doing all sorts of things at various times I have met the Dojo Toolkit guys, the Meebo guys, the Flock people, Redswoosh ( in fact I think they bought their domain at one of the first SHDH’s that I attended but it was well into a night of perl hackery and free flowing redbulls so I could be wrong ) and a bunch of other interesting people.

Anyways, Mike the Quaker and I attend these things together and are normally at a loss to have anything interesting to work on, so we actually came up with a project to work on specifically for when we go to SHDH. We called it cackl because cackl is a very web 2.0a sounding name so we wouldn’t stand out, and because we wanted to do a sort of joke database of epic proportions.

The odd thing was that since we had the idea we have only attended one more SHDH and left early so we could go somewhere quiet and work. GO figure.

So…after a couple of restarts, a lot of caffeinated beverages, much pizza, and several nights of questioning whether we really know what we are doing we have launched cackl.

What is cackl?! : cackl is a joke database of massive proportions. It supports tagging/searching/etc. All wrapped in an easy to navigate interface so that you can be sure you are learning new jokes to bore your friends with within 2 seconds of hitting the site. It is social in nature, so if you have a good joke that you’d like to add, just create an account and add the joke.

So if you need a joke, or have a joke you want to share, please go over to cackl and take a look around.