John is pumped about linode

The Competition to End All Competitions

By John is pumped about linode 2 months ago

Paris and I are competing in The Rails Rumble this weekend — a programming competition that involves building a web application from start to finished in 48 hours. We will be fueled by Jolt Cola and shitty pizza and we aim to sleep (and bathe) as little as humanly possible. Why? What possible reward could be worth losing an entire weekend cooped up in front of a computer?

Oh yes.

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Oct 17, 2008
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On 17 Oct 12:08, Matthew fell down was all:
Matthew fell down

hahaha! brilliant!

On 17 Oct 12:15, Justin is made of ninjas was all:
Justin is made of ninjas

That’s one heck of a swell cupholder!

On 17 Oct 14:36, mandy who? was all:
mandy who?

good luck!!

On 17 Oct 18:09, Julia McF'nCracken was all:
Julia McF'nCracken

wow… knowing Ruby on Rails could get you a sweet belt like that? I’m signing up for a class STAT!

Good luck!

On 17 Oct 21:48, John is pumped about linode was all:
John is pumped about linode

Railsrumble fuel

IT’S SO ON.

On 18 Oct 08:48, christina is a diehard baseball fan was all:
christina is a diehard baseball fan

gross.

i hope the 3 a.m. phone call that led to sammy getting out of bed to leave you leopard helped. you’re lucky someone answered!

On 18 Oct 09:12, John is pumped about linode was all:
John is pumped about linode

It has!

The first half a day update:

We’re officially behind where we’d like to be as two things stopped us dead that we hadn’t counted on:

1.) Paris’ development environment was way out of date and we needed to call Sammy at 3am to get a copy of Leopard to upgrade Paris’ machine. So there was some driving and singing of Bruce Springsteen as well. As of this moment, it’s still a bit wonky and might need a complete wipe

2.) Having to build an entire server from the the ground up is HARD. We hadn’t counted on just how much would be involved, but they basically started you with a server with absolutely zero software on it. You have to configure and install rails and your web server and databases and everything.

So as have 7:00am we got this:

http://li47-127.members.linode.com/

That’s a working user authentication system with OpenID. Not much. But it’s something and when I first saw the interface, threw my hands in the air in victory, and said something like “FUCKi’mgOinGtoBEd” and went to bed where I dreamt about rails and shot up at noon exactly read for more.

What’s nice is that we know we can spend all of today actually building the app. So I’m pumped. Time to go make coffee.

On 18 Oct 10:48, Justin is made of ninjas was all:
Justin is made of ninjas

Hope it’s going well so far today! Best o’ luck!

On 18 Oct 12:13, Paris Makes A Stand was all:
Paris Makes A Stand

Quote of the competition to-date:

Hutch: Why does this shirt smell?

On 19 Oct 16:00, John is pumped about linode was all:
John is pumped about linode

It’s still unfinished and certainly has some bugs, but here’s what we went live with: http://mixtapeattack.r08.railsrumble.com/

On 19 Oct 17:56, Paris Makes A Stand was all:
Paris Makes A Stand

Yeah. Nice nice. I just really liked getting in the zone for 36 hours, like the old days. I now remember again what I liked about programming.

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