MacHack was a Macintosh software developers conference first held in 1986 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The final (18th) MacHack conference took place on June 19-21, 2003. In 2004 the conference was renamed ADHOC (The Advanced Developers Hands On Conference). 2005 was the last year of the ADHOC conference.

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  • MacHack was a Macintosh software developers conference first held in 1986 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The final (18th) MacHack conference took place on June 19-21, 2003. In 2004 the conference was renamed ADHOC (The Advanced Developers Hands On Conference). 2005 was the last year of the ADHOC conference. The conference was atypical of computer conferences in many ways: Keynotes were delivered at midnight The focus of the conference was less on attending sessions and more on developing "hacks": displays of programming, scripting, configuration, or other techie prowess. Hacks were presented in a raucous Friday night show and recognized at a Saturday banquet. The best-received hacks were those developed on-site during the three day conference, and those that embodied both remarkable technical skill and utter impracticality. Rather than being held in a vibrant or popular location, most MacHacks were held in an indistinct Holiday Inn along the Southfield Freeway in Dearborn, Michigan, adjacent to a CompUSA, a Wendy's, a Chili's, and not much else. MacHack's small, informal ethic and on-site coding challenges have been carried on by a number of conferences; for example, the C4 conference was explicitly created as an attempt to fill the void left by the end of MacHack.
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  • MacHack was a Macintosh software developers conference first held in 1986 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The final (18th) MacHack conference took place on June 19-21, 2003. In 2004 the conference was renamed ADHOC (The Advanced Developers Hands On Conference). 2005 was the last year of the ADHOC conference.
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