Sunday, June 05, 2005

The Rails Day-After

Well, I didn't give as many "updates from the front" as I intended. But here is my rapid-review of the day of coding.

Wow !


Ok, now more detail...


It was the quickest 18 hour period that I've experienced in a long time. Everything I looked at the clock it jumped another 2 hours. Among the 6 coders we all seemed to feel that way. After an 8 hour day at work we usually feel tired out. After 17 hours in the contest and at 1:00 am, we were all still wishing we had another hour or two, to squeeze a little more functionality in before the deadline. I did not see one single yawn the entire time. As the evening was getting late, we inadvertently missed dinner entirely. We did have plenty of snacks to keep us going.

The Contest


About 120 teams were signed up. 100 competed. This contest was world-wide. More details at railsday.com

The Application


It was a very good start on the app. It was usable and functional. The PhotoDepo sets up user accounts for Photographers, Guests, and Administrators. Photographers can upload Photo's, arrange them into albums and add "tag words" to them. Guests can browse and search the photos by the "tag words". Administrators set up and manage the accounts. And other users can browse without signing on to the application.
We do wish we had another few hours to add some of the cool AJAX features and polish it up a bit more.

Lines Of Code Produced






App Code445 (not counting the rhtml)
Test Code524
Total Code969

That's about 20 lines of code per person per hour

More Railsday Review's

Scott's Review and Jims's Review