ANN: 2005 International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC)
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Fri Mar 18 16:34:52 CST 2005 LOCATION: http://iorcc.dyndns.org/2005/press/031805.html ANNOUNCEMENT: International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC) Entry Deadline, Midnight on March 31st, 2005 Dear Rubyists, Perlists, Shellists, Cists and Hackers, It is with GREAT pleasure to announce the final stretch of the 2005 International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC) and our wonderful sponsors and prizes. In addition to a covented right of claiming you are most obscure Ruby coder for 12 months time, you also have a shot at over 750 USD worth of prizes from the following wonderful sponsors (all of which are fantastic products and really nice friendly people)... Chronological order of sponsorship (see weblinks below): - Dave Thomas, Signed copies of PickAxe and Ruby on Rails books! - Syngress Press, Ruby the Developers Guide (700+ pages of real world Ruby). - Purgatory Design's Intaglio, graphics application for charting obscure entrantants. Simplicity with power. - Oreilly and Associates, The Ruby Nutshell book, need we say anything more? - Andrew Stone's, Stone Design Suite, Create, Graphics, WebApps, Applets and more! The ORIGINAL OSX Developer. - Puzzles Forever, the folks that invented Solitaire Forever. - OpenBase SQL, OpenStep and now OSX Database solutions for Linux, Windows and MacOSX. - Postal2: Share the Pain from the sick puppies at Running With Scissors and the Infamous Gary Coleman. Thanks Vince! - Sol Robot's CrosswordForge, word finder and crossword puzzle generator. Fun for all, super easy to use and fast! - Bartas Technologies' CopyWrite, got a book or documents to publish? Use CopyWrite, it will blow you away at how simple it is. - MacroMates' TextMate. Lightweight and POWERFUL code project management tool, really slick! The estimated total value of committed prizes by the Official IORCC Sponsors is approx. $750 USD. The deadline for submission is Midnight March 31, 2005. We hope you will be able to participate. This is turning into a GREAT fiesta! All entrants must read the submission guidelines (they are pretty slim and very friendly) to ensure their entry is accepted in a timely manner. Visit the Official IORCC website for more details and the Frequently Asked Questions for the 2005 IORCC event. Best of luck, Todd Nathan IORCC Founder/Judge irc://irc.freenode.net/iorcc (SeaForth) http://iorcc.dyndns.org/ "What you talkin about Willis?" - GC 2005 IORCC Sponsor Home Page Links: http://www.pragprog.com/ http://www.syngress.com/ http://www.purgatorydesign.com/ http://www.oreilly.com/ http://www.stone.com/ http://www.solitaireforever.com/ http://www.openbase.com/ http://www.gopostal.com/ http://www.solrobots.com/ http://www.bartastechnologies.com/ http://www.macromates.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
RE: IORCC Crossword and Wordfind Puzzles
Hello Fellowist Rubyist (and scripters of all flavor) Here is a neat Ruby-centric 84 word crossword puzzle. To follow will be the word find for solution words. Its not too hard, but a good strong search engine and some knowledge of Ruby helps. I found all but 10 or so words/questions online. Some are more obscurely worded and hints are mostly available if you read the clues carefully. http://iorcc.dyndns.org/2005/puzzles/crossword/2005.xword.png Q17 of the Official IORCC FAQ http://iorcc.dyndns.org/faq.html spells out the prize setup for this little 'fun' sub-event. Cheers, Todd Nathan IORCC Founder/Judge irc://irc.freenode.net/iorcc (SeaForth) http://iorcc.dyndns.org/ "What you talkin about Willis?" - GC -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
[ANN]: Last Chance 2005 IORCC Entries
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wed Mar 30 11:58:39 CST 2005 LOCATION: http://iorcc.dyndns.org/2005/press/033005.html ANNOUNCEMENT: 2005 IORCC Deadline Approaches Entry Deadline March 31st, 2005 Less than 36 Hours Left, Great Prizes and Fun! Dear Rubyists, Perlists, Shellists, Cists and Hackers, Well, it has boiled down to this, a great finish for the International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest, 2005 Edition. There is still 30 hours left to get your obscure and wacky Ruby code entered. Surf on over to the Official IORCC rules and website: http://iorcc.dyndns.org With over $2000 USD in prizes from notable industry leaders like Stone Design, OmniGroup, Luscious Monster, OpenBase, Bare Bones Software, O'Reilly Press, Syngress, Purgatory Design, Running With Scissors, BasaSoft, Ecto, Puzzles Forever, Pragmatic Programmer, Bartas Tech, Macro Mates, Ambrosia Software, Sol Robots, Code Tek, dbSuite and more! You just won't believe the list of prizes these generous people have committed to giving away! Dust off your Ruby compiler, take your Perl, Shell, Python and Tcl skills to the test, making a really obscure and obfuscated entry for this years contest. Entry window closes at 23:59:59 Universal Time March 31st, 2005. Official Sponsors, Rules and Entry Guidelines are available online at the IORCC Website. Enter Today! We'd like to also say thanks to the following people and companies in chronological order of sponsorship: - Dave Thomas, Signed copies of PickAxe and Ruby on Rails books! - Syngress Press, Ruby the Developers Guide (700+ pages of real world Ruby) - Purgatory Design's Intaglio, graphics application for charting obscure entries. - O'Reilly and Associates, The Ruby Nutshell book, need we say more? - Andrew Stone's, Stone Design Suite, Create, Graphics, WebApps, Applets and more! - Puzzles Forever, the folks that invented Solitaire Forever. - OpenBase SQL, OpenStep and now OSX Database solutions for Linux, Windows and MacOSX. - Postal2: Share the Pain from the sick puppies at Running With Scissors/Infamous Gary Coleman. - Sol Robot's CrosswordForge, word finder and crossword puzzle generator. Fun for all. - Bartas Technologies' CopyWrite, got a book or documents to publish? Use CopyWrite. - MacroMates' TextMate. Lightweight and POWERFUL code project management tool, really slick! - CodeTek's Virtual Desktop. The definitive way to expand and maximize your desktop workspace. - OmniGroup's OmniGraffle and OmniOutline, the way to go in professional presentations. - InterServices New Media's, dbSuite WebBuilder and SQL4X Manager J for OS X. - Ecto for OS X, the power of the blog! - BasaSoft's, BasaOne, the Integrated Web Application Development Environment. - Bare Bones Software, with Mail Smith and BBEdit, the Professional HTML editing for OS X. - Pipe, simple, elegant, powerful. The utility editor for OS X. - Ambrosia Software, with SnapzProX 2 and WireTap Pro. Make moves from the desktop! - Delicious Monster, with of course Delicious Library. Catalog your videos, music and more! A big thank you to all the contestants, sponsors and support from the Ruby community. We have had a great time putting this together, and now we can (almost) begin the judging process. Winners will be announced after noon April 1st, 2005. A public voting forum for the 2005 IORCC People's Choice Award will be opened with voting continuing thru the 15th of April, 2005. Winners will be announced shortly after the web voting is closed and counted. Best of luck to you all! Todd Nathan IORCC Founder/Judge irc://irc.freenode.net/iorcc (SeaForth) http://iorcc.dyndns.org/ "What you talkin about Willis?" - GC 2005 IORCC Sponsor Home Page Links: http://www.pragprog.com/ http://www.syngress.com/ http://www.purgatorydesign.com/ http://www.oreilly.com/ http://www.stone.com/ http://www.solitaireforever.com/ http://www.openbase.com/ http://www.gopostal.com/ http://www.solrobots.com/ http://www.bartastechnologies.com/ http://www.macromates.com/ http://www.codetek.com/ http://www.omnigroup.com/ http://www.dbsuite.de/ http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/ http://www.basasoft.com/ http://www.barebones.com/index.shtml http://www.kcore.de/ http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/ http://www.delicious-monster.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: : Last Chance 2005 IORCC Entries
Ivan Actually, it was simply an oversite by me, not by anyone else in the Ruby community. I hope you don't take offense to this simple mistake of mine. The contest is open (for another 12 hours or so) and nobody is discriminated against as you suggest. Pythonists are MOST welcome to contribute, in fact all 'colors' of coders are welcome, whatever flavor or preference of code you choose. I hope to see your entry and may you have the best of luck! Todd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
