Neither 3rd, nor 2nd. But 1st place in the eGenting Competition 2006. Well I’ve pulled off what I thought would be impossible, especially because of my choice of an obscure language that I bet 99.9% of the programmers in Malaysia haven’t heard of.
The direct reward? 6000 MYR + a Job Offer.
- The money, great, some extra pocket money.
- The Job Offer? Doesn’t seem like a bad incentive, plus it doesn’t leave me out in the cold.
The indirect reward?
- Clout. I can finally be a voice to be reckoned with, instead of just ‘another student’, especially in the face of the level of IT graduates in Malaysia.
- Hopefully recognition of the importance that Free and Open Source Software had on my education. I do not doubt that it has been one of the best mentors I’ve ever had.
I dared to defy convention, and use Ruby instead of the suggested C++ or Java.
Best of luck to all participants, I hope to see (and compete against) you next time (if I can still participate).
I’ve been told I haven’t released my Ruby solutions, which I must have forgotten. They still need a bit of cleaning up, and I’ll post it in the upcoming weeks, after I’ve settled back in Malaysia.
Sadly they haven’t uploaded the pictures yet. So stay tune to this site, and I’ll keep you updated.
Thanks
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Hope many people join in 2008 egpc. Don’t let me see that 50% of people runaway after the buffet hour. Haha.a…
I don’t know where to put this but I can’t find your related post plugin anywhere even at your website. Is it still available?
Congrats.
I’m a year slow but it’s not too late to find out that you’re one of the Open Malaysia guys.
- yc
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Its late, but congratulations
Tahniah!
dood
you tha man
congrats
be different!
My late coming congras.!
yup, a wonderful feat
Congratulations! u rock dude!
Congrats bro.
@han
Apologies man, you’ll probably have to ask eGenting about that.
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Congrats dude. U rock. Ruby is sexy too.
- adli
Congrats, aizat. Good PR for ruby hackers. Any chance of breakdown of the other language choices used in the compo?
A one-up for both Malaysian Ruby programmers and open source advocates. Congratulations and thank you!
Congrats!
Congratulation!
Have you taken the $$ ? lets celebrate ! hehe
Congratulation!
you are so good. anyway can we be a friend?
Congratulations!
Feels sweet to be vindicated doesn’t it? I’m especially happy that you won this, when MNCC wouldn’t recognize your previous efforts.
Wow, thank you everyone!
Congratulation! Its just WOW! – bigger than Vista! You have proved something big. You’ll be in history.
Dude, grreatt…! Congratulations and enjoy the prize!!!
Congrats dude, you make the my OSS scene proud!!!
congrates! eventhough i dunno what happened, but keep up the good work
btw, me/we back this Sunday, meet up with other OSS guys?
CONGRATS MAN!!!
d(^.~) : congratulation, well done !
Aizat, you make me proud. So when are u inviting me to the celebration dinner! I want to see u win another big one.