Coding and Red Bull: Facebook to hold all-night hacking session

(CNN) -- At some companies, the night before a multibillion-dollar stock offering might come with lavish parties and champagne.

At Facebook, it will be work and Red Bull.

According to a rundown from Facebook about the day leading up to Friday's initial stock offering, staffers will be all-hands-on-deck for the company's 31st "hackathon" -- one of its all-night coding sessions that have become a Facebook tradition since the company's earliest days.

"Although all-nighters have been a Facebook tradition since the beginning, we made hackathons official in 2007," the schedule says. It was provided to media due to intense interest in advance of the Wall Street debut. "They are all-night coding sessions where employees focus on any project they choose, with only one rule: It has to be different from their day job."           Full Read