IORCC

2005 IORCC PC/Judicial Winner's Announced.

2005-04-17T14:56:00.000-07:00

It is with great pleasure to announce the Judicial and People's Choice awards for the 2005 IORCC. Thank you all for voting, visiting and making this all possible. IORCC wants to thank you all, Sponsors, Contestants and Judges.

2005 IORCC People's Choice Voting Open!!!

2005-04-02T10:33:00.000-08:00

Howdie Ruby Enthusiast,

With great happiness we bring to you the 2005 IORCC entries:

The Programming Language `NegaPosi'
P2P
primes less than 1000 ( 2005 Obfuscated Ruby Contest )
Ruby Quiz Loader
Pretty numbers
/slash, is this C++ or ruby?
Charlie the Smiling Fish
Lost-key XOR-Vigenere decryptor
spqr - convert from roman numerals

Please use the IORCC Judicial Guidelines as well as your own criteria to place your ONE VOTE and help us find a People's Choice Award winner. Thank you!

Cheers,

The 2005 IORCC Guys

2005 IORCC Entry Window CLOSED!

2005-03-31T16:43:00.000-08:00

Thank you all for your patience and support.

A HUGE thank you to all our wonderful 2005 IORCC Sponsors! Kudos for helping make a very successful winning prize package. To the contestants, for taking the time to write wacky and hard to read yet creative code. In some way we hope this brings back an 'art to programming'. And also to the 135,000+ visitors to the Official IORCC Website, making it a wonderful time for all to watch things progress so far. Stay tuned, the winners will be announced here and on the website.

The entries are online at 2005 Entries Online!

Please take the time to view, share and appreciate the time folks have put into the code. Feel free to join others in the Freenode.net #ruby-o channel to chat it up. And if you have questions about the IORCC rules, event, Judging, future events, or more, chat online at the #iorcc or the #bricc channels.

Cheers!

IORCC Word Finder Puzzle

2005-03-31T08:04:00.000-08:00

With still no XWord Puzzle winners, the IORCC Word Finder puzzle is now out!

2005 IORCC Word Finder

You may find this one a lot easier than the XWord Puzzle, and full of answers that may help. Best of luck.

2005 IORCC Cross-Bloggin'

2005-03-26T15:15:00.000-08:00

Great big thank you to the following sites:

Ecto Blog
Ruby On Rails Blog
Stephen Sykes IORCC Judgeshipness
Pipe, for OS X.
RedHanded: One Stop Ruby!
Matz (Ruby Creator) Blog
Artima
Haiku News
OSNews
USENET News

Nice to see some folks taking notice of the IORCC and its goals to help make programming fun again.

HINTS: Supplemental Puzzle Fun

2005-03-23T03:24:00.000-08:00

To make life a little less boring for contestants and judges of the 2005 IORCC event, a crossword puzzle was constructed over a 7+ hour period all about Rubies. Ruby the programming language, Ruby the precious stone, and of course some 'Ruby' personalities. Here's a link that will get you to the IORCC XWord Puzzle:

http://iorcc.dyndns.org/#Q17

The first person to email an correct/complete word list to the crossword wins one nice prize from the Official 2005 Sponsors Page. Hints will be given here daily from March 23rd to March 31st, 2005. One to two written clues/hints for particular words will be given as Blog entries.

Enjoy and Cheers,

Todd Nathan
IORCC Founder

Official 2005 IORCC Sponsors

2005-03-22T23:45:00.000-08:00

To date, the Official 2005 IORCC Sponsors are:

The Pragmatic Programmer, Dave Thomas
Syngress Publishing, makers of Ruby Developer's Guide
Purgatory Design with their Intaglio Graphics Package
Oreilly and Associates, Ruby in a Nutshell
The OS X Grandfather of Development, Andrew Stone his HUGE suite of apps!
Puzzles Forever Jigsaw Puzzle Maker
OpenBase, SQL for OSX, Linux and Windows
Running With Scissors, Postal2: Share the Pain
Sol Robots, Crossword Forge
Bartas Technologies, CopyWrite 2.x (latest)
MacroMate's Fantastic Code Management and Editor, TextMate
CodeTek's Virtual Desktop Pro
OmniGroup's OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle
dbSuite's WebBuilder and MacOSGuru's MySQL4X Manager J
Ecto for OS X
BasaSoft's Integrated Web Application Development Environment BasaOne for OS X
Bare Bones Software powerful yet simple Mail Smith 2.1 and their legendary editor BBEdit 8.0
Pipe for OS X
Ambrosia Software's seminal utility SnapPro X and for the audio buff WireTap Pro
Delicious Monster's fast rising super star program Delicious Library.

NOTE: While IORCC does make a concerted effort to request only the sponsors it deems as quality and viable to the Ruby Programmer, it should not be taken as an endorsement of said sponsor or product. The IORCC does out of habit request but not demand as part of it agreement with a sponsor a license for the packages promoted so that the IORCC may be congruent with its promotions. We believe in what we promote, to the extent that we try and use it for daily production. In the case where we don't have the money or the sponsor doesn't provide an item as a gift to the IORCC, we simply don't have the ability to explain how good or not the product is... That said, we work hard to disclose what we do, and why. If you have questions about the IORCC or its practices regarding sponsorship, please file it round. Thank you.

2005 Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC)

2005-03-22T21:49:00.000-08:00

This blog is designed to document the ups and downs, the ins and outs of creating a contest and having it succeed. Applying the general principles of sound logic and good humor, these ideas may be used to help your own event be a success.

The IORCC has received nothing but positive press, and we attribute this to the open and honest approach we have to requesting sponsorship and participation. Whether someone wants to submit an entry, participate as a judge or simply promote the IORCC, all parties win with a growing community and common interest and awareness of an alternative way to code, interact and share the art.

To date, we have had 95% committment from sponsorship requests. Fantastical, a word I made up to describe this phenom we're experiencing. But why? Why has the IORCC in a market that is soft, interest rates going up, jobs being shipped overseas and a growing unemployment rate, had such success? I'm positive I know the answer, but will drag it out a bit and expand on some themes and ideas as we explore Success in Sponsorship and Events. Hopefully you will gain some insites which will help you achieve success too.