After 24 hours of insane, non-stop coding, designing, talking, and general tom-foolery, Rails Day 2006 is over. Nearly 200 teams competed, committing over 5000 total changesets to the official SVN server.
Even though I got a team fairly late, and our initial design/concept wasn’t fully fleshed out, I reckon we got fairly far. The application was inspired by Dan Russells post on Creating Passionate Users about visualizing your life as dots.
The application got almost feature complete, although it got far from as usable as I would have liked it to. We’ll have it deployed to a webserver near you soon. Our team stats are here, for those who care.
Rails Day was a really cool (and tough) experience, and I had a lot of fun. Thanks should go to my teammates and our “manager” (yes, Johannes, that’s you ;) ), and to the Rails Day crew. The spectate function, SVN bots, and generally everything has been running pretty smootly, cheers! Also huge thanks to my lovely girlfriend who took good care of me all day, and didn’t even once call me crazy or roll her eyes - at least not while I noticed.
Next year, I am hoping the danish Rails community will be crawling with people so we can field a team all sitting together. That’d be extremely cool in my book. So, see you next year?
Ah! Next time, I’ll be on your team — you know it. There’ll be more than one Danish team next year.
Oh, I really like the idea. We’ll be in touch.
What would be really cool is to make a commercial project in just one day for a real customer. I’m in next year hopefully with a real commercial project to deliver in just 24 hours!
That would definitely be cool, assuming you can find a client who agrees to have the code she’s paying for be publically available.
Jakob,
Thanks for taking up the challenge of making something of my plans for Dan’s idea.
There is no working system delivers to the judges that can “sell” the idea, and as such I think it is unlikely we will win any prizes, but I’m very impressed with what you, Daesan and Matt have accomplished considering the mistakes I made with the paperwork up front to help you guys understand my plans for Dan’s idea.
Thank you; you guys brought back the fun, dare I say passion, back into the programming life of a dinosaur.
Johannes