Kategorie: Kringle

Snow-maggedon

Best Creative Answer that is Technically Correct awarded (recorded as Ben K.)

In my fourth year, I wanted to go the extra mile. After acquiring a lot of technical skills in previous years (Python programming, web with Bootstrap – I felt a bit like a full stack developer in the meantime), I wanted to create something special. To do this, I familiarised myself with desktop publishing and, with the help of artificial intelligence for text support, submitted a local North Pole daily newspaper as a report. I am so proud to have won the Best Creative Answer that is Technically Correct award with this submission. My solution can be viewed and downloaded here:

You can find the interactive, linked HTML-based solution here: 2024 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge

A Holiday Odyssey – Geese A-Lei’ing!

Super Honorable Mention awarded (recorded as Darkander)

In the third year, I improved the reporting even further. Instead of individual Python scripts, I created a complete web application written in Python and based on Flask and Bootstrap. The web application stores the Markdown code in an SQLite database and takes care of the upload and storage of additional image files. It also indicates clearly which tasks have already been processed and allows reports to be generated in HTML or Markdown. The source code can be found on GitHub. I had hosted the web application on the internet in the past, but recently switched it off for cost reasons.

You can find the interactive, linked HTML-based solution here: 2023 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge

Golden Rings

Honorable Mention awarded (recorded as Ben [Darkander])

In the second year of my participation, I wanted to improve the report generation. As in the first year, I wrote my descriptions and solutions in Markdown. However, as the compilation and linking took a lot of time, I created Python scripts to do the work for me. The complete generated report for 2022 can be viewed and downloaded here:

You can find the interactive, linked HTML-based solution here: 2022 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge

KringleCon 4: Calling Birds

Super Honorable Mention awarded (recorded as Ben Krueger)

2021 was the first year I took part. I was primarily focused on the challenges and their solution. To create a report, I decided to use Markdown (GitHub-flavoured Markdown), as I thought it was perfect due to the simple language and syntax highlighting. I then exported the complete report to PDF format and made it available to view and download here:

You can find the interactive, linked HTML-based solution here: 2021 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge