Our HackathonA couple of weeks ago our company, Santander Consumer USA, announced that it would be holding our first internal hackathon. Come-one, come-all! The day of the hackathon would be Friday, July 26th. Our team got the notice, and looked over the requirements, but we were just interested academically, and weren't really considering entering. After receiving encouragement from our director, James Webb, product owner Ed Gowens, and CTO, Glenn Harper, we had no option but to enter: I don't usually say "no" to the executive crowd. However, I wiggled quite a bit trying to get off the hook. Glenn seemed to have an answer to every excuse. Finally I acquiesced. James, Ed, and Glenn all felt, and I agreed, that it was an opportunity to give exposure of Service-Now's development capabilities to the company.The majority of development work in our company is done with C# and .Net. The people running the hackathon declared it to be open platform (bruhaha, their mistake!). I partnered with Greg Tijerina who has done administration and development work on Service-Now since 2009, and works with me daily on the Service-Now team here at Santander Consumer. We were given a choice of choosing our own, or picking from a list of programming tasks. The task that we chose had to be accomplished between 2pm and 11pm on the same day. The awards would simply be token (plastic trophy cups), but the winners would have bragging rights in the company. Not a big dollar affair, but still pretty cool!Here was the list we could choose from: