#railsrumble

by, Venel Rene

Well I competed in my first Rail Rumble this weekend. Filled with great idea's with little exception for results. Only messing with Ruby on Rails for 4 weeks, I took the rails challenge heads on.

First day started at 8pm and I would note, it went well! Everything was following between me and my teammate. We separated certain tasked based on skills and ended the night ahead of schedule. 

The next day, was a different story. Spending a lot of time debugging and figuring out front-end designed drained both me and my partner. Collectively, the both of us are good and strong with back-end work. We underestimated how much work went into designing a app.

Before we could get a grip of things after, competing the design for our app, time ran out. One moment we had 3 hours remaining and within seconds it felt like we were out of time and missed the deadline. 

It was disappointing to not get a app submitted by the deadline, but rewarding to have learned a lot from the experience. Key things I learned : 1. Time management is VERY Important

2. organization, clears things up

3. communication is a very good asset.

4. Its ok to have fun.

by, Venel Rene

Are you ready to Rummmmmble!! Yes the Rails Rumble is here, well its actually tomorrow. As a class, we are only 4 weeks into ruby on rails. It took major courage, for many of us to even sign up for this rumble.

Ok you ask what is "Rails Rumble"? Well "The Rails Rumble is a distributed programming competition where hundreds of teams of one to four people, from all over the world, have 48 hours to build an innovative web application, with Ruby on Rails or another Rack-based Ruby web framework. After the 48 hours are up, everyone picks their favorites and the top ten winners are revealed!"

Basically it’s a two days, sweaty, brain draining, hardcore, app building competition. My instructor Brian Burridge , who I consider a beast! When it comes to coding. He has competed numerouse times with more than one top ten finishes. So, I am pretty sure you figured out who motivates us to compete.  

There's this rush of excitement rushing through my vain. I love competing, I love supporting my fellow classmate, and I LOVE to have fun building! The question that keeps circling around my head is, am I really ready! We will see tomorrow in the rumble ring, what four weeks of intensive coding can create.

Last night we hosted DenHaag.rb with about 40 attendees. 

We had 3 talks, one on crypto (slides), one about how Go compares to Ruby and one on the Lightning Thunderbolts team that participated in the RailsRumble (vote for them!).

Checkout the pictures on meetup.

Ganban v.1.2.0 has been released.

- 2 Bug fixed

- 10 new features added.

Look CHANGELOG.md for more detail info.

Log your meals and feels to spot food allergies

⇒ Voting is now open (until October 24th 23:59 UTC)

Track what you eat and how you feel afterwards. Use this information to figure out what foods consistently cause problems for you.

Guest accounts: try it out before signing up

Remembers meal ingredients and symptoms you've entered in the past and auto-suggests them to you

Big-picture view of meal and symptom history

Size-agnostic design: a responsive UI with a minimum amount of media queries

So check out Meals/Feels and give us Feedback via our Rails Rumble entry.