Ruby Hackathon at Exist

:luis — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:06:02 +0000

The Exist Ruby team is holding an internal hackathon today (Nov 24th) from 10am to 10pm. Because us Syndeo guys are fairly new to the group, I needed to come up with a way to get everyone familiar with one another quickly, as well as evaluate where everyone’s skillsets were at. Holding a small competition seemed to be the most efficient way to do this.

We split the Ruby practice into six groups with 3 members each, all of them a mix of Cebu and Manila developers. To keep things interesting, we came up with six questions that the teams’ respective applications needed to address, as follows:

RED
Jason, Leslie, Stephen
“What’s the average lifespan of a shoe, by brand?”

BLUE
Mae, Kyle, Dado
“What are the chances that the airplane I’m about to board will crash?”

GREEN
Raymond, Marjun, Rachel
“I smoke a pack a day. How many years before I die?”

YELLOW
Evan, Jay, Gretchen
“How much do people in a given country hate their Internet Service Providers?”

ORANGE
Tim, Jessie, Nuks
“I’ve had 4 shots of vodka and 6 beers tonight. How drunk am I?”

PINK
Marco, Kristina, Mark
“What top goes with this bottom?”

I’ll have another update soon describing how it all went.

Philippine Ruby Users Group Night at the Tech Bar

:luis — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:23:59 +0000

PhRUG is holding our monthly meeting tonight at the G2VC Tech Bar here in the Manila offices, and we’re all excited to be hanging out together again, especially with the snazzier venue. (Not that McDonald’s was a bad choice for a meeting place or anything. I’m just saying.)

We’ll have two speakers tonight: Neil of DevEx will be talking about using the GoogleMaps web service with Rails, and our very own Evan Sagge will be thrilling the pants off of us with his newfound love for the Shoulda testing plugin. (That’s the plan, anyway.)

Watch live on our Ustream channel, and grab the presentations over at Glance (session key to be posted on Ustream).