Rails Rumble 2007
For a first time in my life I took part in “speed” coding contest. The purpose of Rails Rumble was to create (and deploy) website in just 48h. Almost 150 teams of one to four people each did their best to create something amusing, beautiful or practical.
I would like to credit organizers for keeping everything working so well and being so helpful and responsive during the competition. Thanks guys.
I joined forces with 3 other friends to form Gdynia-Belfast team. We:
- Piotr Macuk
- Eamonn Murphy
- Bogdan Baraszkiewicz
- Michał Wronka (Me)
worked fearlessly, transcending cultural and language barriers on Joglog , online log for runners and joggers. Lots of good design and code, moments of anger at slow servers, but generally good fun, cooperation and new experience (online project collaboration in particular).
I was also invited to be part of xFRONT team. Unfortunately self.clone failed me this time, and I couldn’t start with them, maybe next time. With few more member issues, David was left alone on battle field, but as a serious developer pulled through and created Mowawi. Great job David, you made it against all odds.
There was one more nice tone in the competition, other Polish team Świerszcze. They pulled out Startup Tycoon . Interesting idea for a game, give it a try. Behind it names well known in Polish Rails community, keep it up guys.
Bottom line, it was great fun, well worth doing. I hope to try again next year… better prepared :)