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Rails Rumble 2007: Reduxbook
Yes, I know this is a bit late, but a few weeks ago on the weekend of September 8th to the 9th, I participated in the first ever Rails Rumble competition. The goal of the competition was to build a Ruby on Rails application in 48 hours, basically the whole weekend. The prizes for Rails Rumble are really enticing. The winners are decided from the public voting for the best application.
Kamal, Kegan, and Sean and myself were camping out in RSB in Cyberjaya for most of the time. Found lunch and dinner there, though there really wasn't much to eat over there.
Our application idea was to build a contacts aggregator from the various services out there. Be it Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Flickr, or your very own blog feed. We dubbed it Reduxbook.
At the start, Kamal handled the server and setting up the continuous deployment via Capistrano. Sean covered the HTML markup and design. Kegan looked at integrating the services. As for myself I hacked away at application's source code.
The first few hours went okay, but as the 24 hour mark came by, we knew we were in a pinch. The last 24 hours was a real adrenaline rush, and it went by really really fast. But we were able to pull it through with an all nighter.
Don't forget to vote for Reduxbook !
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!
UNITEN MULTIPROG Competition 2007
After thee MMU Programming Competition, I felt a bit down trodden as I couldn't leave a mark in it. Not soon after the competition, I was informed of the Uniten MULTIPROG Competition 2007. By the way, MULTIPROG stand for Multimedia and Programming. The competition has two components, both a multimedia and a programming element which you can take part in. Naturally I decided for the programming one.
The competition allowed 2 teams, made of 2 people each, from a University. My partner once again for this round was Jason Khong, and the other team was the same previous team.
This was also my first time to Uniten, and I was surprised that they actually have a hotel inside the campus.
We were restricted to using C, and Microsoft Visual C++ to code. Both of which I am not so familiar with, especially the latter.
There were two sets of questions, each taking a duration of 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete. The first set consisted of 10 questions each weighing the same, and the second set of 3 weighing differently. Your team was scored on how many, and how well you answered the questions.
I got a reputable 3rd place in the competition, which I don't think is so bad as I'm not familiar with the tools.
The prizes:
- 1000 MYR
- 2 days 1 night stay at Langkawi
Once again, I'm quite ashamed that I couldn't get first, though I'm satisfied with at least getting something.
This puts Monash University has been in the top 3 in past 4 local programming competitions. Claiming 1st twice, and 3rd twice.
Have to bring that record up!
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