The Competition to End All Competitions
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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hahaha! brilliant!
That’s one heck of a swell cupholder!
good luck!!
wow… knowing Ruby on Rails could get you a sweet belt like that? I’m signing up for a class STAT!
Good luck!
IT’S SO ON.
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!
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 Paris’ development environment was way out of date and we needed to call Sammy at 3am to get a copy of Leopard to upgrade Paris’ machine.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.
Hope it’s going well so far today! Best o’ luck!
Quote of the competition to-date:
Hutch: Why does this shirt smell?
It’s still unfinished and certainly has some bugs, but here’s what we went live with: http://mixtapeattack.r08.railsrumble.com/
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.