WF Developer Competition

Lyova said:
I could do that, but I really should learn how to use databases. lol
edit: looking at this it seems to be heavily reliant on DB (which i know nothing about), i would legit spend 24 hours learning databases lol. i'll sit this one out but it's a cool idea, wish luck for the rest of you
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db aren't bad, just read up on normalization and normal forms...and your designs will be solid. The SQL language isn't bad at all, pretty straightforward and well documented.

I may have time on sat to throw something together, won't have a full day or anything, how will the theme be communicated? Posted in here or a new thread? PM'd? Sounds fun :) I'd be interested in using javascript, php, mysql for the contest.
 


Kiopa_Matt said:
RSS reader, 22nd, 24 hour devel time, post a quick note here upon starting and completion? Or dchuk, did you want to bump it up a couple days to the 24th or 25th? Or if we're developing something other than the RSS reader, someone needs to come up with some specs.
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I'm down for the RSS, but would prefer if it was pushed back a fews days.

I'm cool with the 22nd, if thats whats decided on, just think that the extra couple of days would let people sort out schedules etc.
 
acidie said:
I'm down for the RSS, but would prefer if it was pushed back a fews days.

I'm cool with the 22nd, if thats whats decided on, just think that the extra couple of days would let people sort out schedules etc.
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No, if you don't mind, let's not. We've been discussing this for at least a month now, and lets not drag this out any further. I started this thread on the 18th, and that's enough time to prepare, so 22nd it is. Or I don't know, I'm doing the 22nd at least, and you guys can do whatever.

I could actually use a couple extra days myself, because I'm using this to showcase my infrastructure for the first time, and I'm not ready. But fuck it, we're all never going to be ready at the same time, so let's just push forward with it now.

22nd, everyone has midnight until midnight in their local timezone for the project. If you're in, drop a note to this thread upon starting, and another note upon completion with the details. You have 24 hours, so take your time, and no need to do it all in one sitting.

Looking forward to it, and will be interesting to see the various solutions that people come up with. Let's see what everyone can do in 24 hours. :)
 
Kiopa_Matt said:
No, if you don't mind, let's not. We've been discussing this for at least a month now, and lets not drag this out any further. I started this thread on the 18th, and that's enough time to prepare, so 22nd it is. Or I don't know, I'm doing the 22nd at least, and you guys can do whatever.

I could actually use a couple extra days myself, because I'm using this to showcase my infrastructure for the first time, and I'm not ready. But fuck it, we're all never going to be ready at the same time, so let's just push forward with it now.

22nd, everyone has midnight until midnight in their local timezone for the project. If you're in, drop a note to this thread upon starting, and another note upon completion with the details. You have 24 hours, so take your time, and no need to do it all in one sitting.

Looking forward to it, and will be interesting to see the various solutions that people come up with. Let's see what everyone can do in 24 hours. :)
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I will be drinking beer while coding tomorrow and I suggest you all join me as it will mean we'll all hit an awesome inflection point where everything stops going well and instead catches on fire.
 
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dchuk said:
I will be drinking beer while coding tomorrow and I suggest you all join me as it will mean we'll all hit an awesome inflection point where everything stops going well and instead catches on fire.
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I'm already drunk :D
 
idk if you guys have been following tech news recently but AOL just announced a RSS reader and Digg released their replacement for Google reader. I'm looking forward to building a simple prototype.
 
dchuk said:
I will be drinking beer while coding tomorrow and I suggest you all join me as it will mean we'll all hit an awesome inflection point where everything stops going well and instead catches on fire.
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Sounds like a plan! 8am here, and haven't started or looked at the reviewed specs again. Haven't slept yet, and drunk now, so will handle this tomorrow. Will make sure it's done by midnight my time. :)
 
Not sure I'm gonna get time to submit one today, but even if not - I'll probably do it another day throughout the week.
 
It's 10am, gunna try and bang this out in 6 hours.

Maybe I'm being overly optimisitic, dunno, we'll see.
 
11am here and I think I'm going to give it a go in Python too

Not promising that I'll actually finish though (or even get halfway through) but there's only one way to find out
 
START: 8:15 AM EST

Getting started hopefully can put in 5-6 hours my partner is coming in and we gotta work on other stuff so I got up stupid early.
 
Update from me: 9:20pm, and I already know I'm going to be late. To my credit, didn't start until 4pm. Sleeping schedule is currently screwed, went home this morning to see the dogs, came back to the hotel, fell asleep until 3:30pm.

Will work on getting this done though.
 
My submission is complete, ~ 4hours coding time.

Problems that I know exist, but are too lazy to fix:

  • No pagination, with a decent size list of feeds, shit gonna get crazy
  • Used GET queries to change state in some places also in the interest of time, bad idea likely due to browser prefetching etc.
  • validation isn't perfect in places
  • UI bugs (some places are fucked)
  • Page Size (I included the whole of bootstrap and all its scripts just for sake of speed)
  • Other stuff I can't think of right now

Anyway, here is a demo:
Rss

And the code:
https://github.com/JakeAustwick/wf-comp

I have barely tested this thing, so I have no idea how prone to crashing it is. Give it a go I guess?

Edit: Seems like my Mark All As Complete query on the dashboard doesn't work with Postgres, I was using sqlite for development.
 
Also, for those of you interested:

Job Queue Dashboard: Sidekiq

I'll also keep feed processing running for a week or so, so you can play with it, then will be shutting the worker instance down so it doesn't cost me much $$.
 
Update: Basically I blew out the time frame. Too tired to push to server right now. Will do tomorrow.
 
Update #3: xHTML / CSS and some javascript for the app is done, ready for loops. Beginning Session building / storing view state data and saving of categories for users.
 
Update number 1: haven't started, will probably steal jake's and cheat my way to the finish.

For real though its only noon here and it's beautiful outside so I did a long dog walk with the girlfriend and will be starting this soon.
 
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