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Mark McSpadden
August 14, 2011
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Ruby, Rails, and Winning Lightning Talk
Given as a Lightning Talk at Lone Star Ruby Conference V (2011) in Austin, Texas.
Mark McSpadden
August 14, 2011
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Transcript
Ruby, Rails, and Winning Mark McSpadden LSRCV 08/2011 Sunday, August
14, 2011
WHO AM I? MARKMCSPADDEN ON THE GITHUB AND THE TWITTER
Sunday, August 14, 2011
What have I been up to? Google Code Jam (2009,
2010, 2011) O’Reilly/Fluidinfo Writeable API Contest Donors Choose Hacking Education Contest Evernote Developer Competition Tropo LSRCV Contest Sunday, August 14, 2011
BOOKCHIRPA.COM BIG WINNER! Sunday, August 14, 2011
CHARITYCHIRPA.COM WILDCARD WINNER! Sunday, August 14, 2011
ELEPHANTTRACKSAPP.COM LOSER! (SAD TROMBONE) Sunday, August 14, 2011
but this is not about ME... Sunday, August 14, 2011
this is about YOU... Sunday, August 14, 2011
you can WIN these contests Sunday, August 14, 2011
and get better as a side effect Sunday, August 14,
2011
Why contests? Technical Cross Training Product Development Cross Training Time
Limits Prizes!!! Sunday, August 14, 2011
Where do I find these? http://www.programmableweb.com/contests http://challenge.gov http://twitter.com/#!/search/developer%20contest Sunday, August
14, 2011
Where do I find the time? optimize the 9 to
Midnight window sleep less have less friends Sunday, August 14, 2011
Examples Google Code Jam Yahoo Labs KDD Cup (past) Donors
Choose Hacking Education Occupational Employment Statistics Challenge Sunday, August 14, 2011
Solve a Problem Contests Pros: Short time frame, Focused problem
sets Cons: Lower barrier to entry, No “presentable” results Think MATH and Test Test Test Sunday, August 14, 2011
Build an App Contests Pros: Freedom, Presentable results, Human judges,
Advantages in using Ruby and Rails Cons: Time intensive, Subjective judging Get API Keys early, prepare for delays Sunday, August 14, 2011
Getting Started: Getting Ideas Don’t do your first idea Don’t
do an idea mentioned as an example Do talk it out with others Do consider the judges and criteria Sunday, August 14, 2011
Getting Technical: Random Advice Test the critical parts (if you
want) Don’t try too many new things Rely heavily on gems Know that you may have to (get to) tweak or release some OSS Sunday, August 14, 2011
Deployment Heroku. Heroku. Heroku. Buy a domain. Setup DNS. Do
this early. Get some early testers Sunday, August 14, 2011
Submit! Sunday, August 14, 2011
Wait... Sunday, August 14, 2011
And Wait... Sunday, August 14, 2011
And wait... Sunday, August 14, 2011
THE JOY OF VICTORY Sunday, August 14, 2011
THE AGONY OF DEFEAT Sunday, August 14, 2011
Current Contest Resources http://www.programmableweb.com/contests http://challenge.gov http://twitter.com/#!/search/developer%20contest Sunday, August 14, 2011