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A Life of Programming Competitions

The recent Uniten MULTIPROG Competition 2007 is the first in a series of programming competitions that I will be competing in.

Best part is, I’ll get to be using my language of choice, Ruby.

Rails Rumble

Taking place on the weekend of September 8th to 9th, (locally it stretches from 8th to 10th noon), Rails Rumble is about building a Ruby on Rails web application over a weekend. Besides just building you will also have to administer and setup the application on a provided VPS, which you can use till October (sweet). The prizes just recently got announced, and look mighty good.

I’ll be participating in this with Kamal and Kegan, whom I’ve met at the Malaysia Ruby Brigade.

This will provide a good practice for another upcoming competition.

Award on Rails 2007

Award on Rails is a Japanese competition open to international participants, where one builds a Ruby on Rails application. Top prize is 1,000,000 YEN, which translates to 29,964.74 MYR. Talk about alot of money.

The English on the site is broken though.

Deadline for submission is September 25th.

eGenting Programming Competition

Luckily for me, even though as last year’s eGenting Programming Competion winner, I can still participate in this, and hopefully bag myself another first place. Well hopefully. The prizes are the same as last year for Students, MYR 6000 and a Job Offer.

Except…I probably won’t be attending this one…

code::Xtreme::Apps::

It probably has the most awful name I have ever seen, but this is the one I am truly looking forward for. code::Xterme::Apps is another competition, where I can use Ruby on Rails or the Google APIs and make a web application. The competition is being held in Singapore, so I’ll be having a nice trip down there.

Sadly the date clashes with the eGenting Programming Competition, and falls on the 22nd to 23rd of September.

My team members will be the same one from Rails Rumble.

Afteword

Are there any more that I should know off?

Best of luck to all competitors!