I'm not interested in recipe coding, but "Melbourne Muggles" is on next week, if you're interested <http://www.meetup.com/melbournehp/ >
On 7 June 2011 23:03, Noon Silk <noonsli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Data is here: <http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28596024/recipes%282%29.zip> > > The guidelines are: You may populate a "database" with this data, > and, that's it! No queries/stored procedures shall be saved nor shall > anything else be done until the night! > > On the night, we will all start from a scratch project and attempt to > do, "something", with this data. If you have other data you want to > add, feel free to do so (share it if you like). Any type of > application will be accepted (mobile/data manipulating > only/website/etc). 20 minutes will be allocated, with a further 15 to > discussing solutions and ranking them in some fashion. Hopefully you > will be first in the rankings as determined by aforementioned system! > > The prize? Bragging rights and the acclaim of your peers! > > Participation is expected even from those who don't compete - You > must watch and comment and generally try talk to the programmers while > they program, perhaps offering them advice on how to program, where to > place that semicolon or tab, what bracket they are missing, and most > importantly - how they are clearly not doing it the most efficient way > and it would be substantially better were they to do it in *this* > fashion ... (Be prepared for friendly backtalk ...) > > So, bring your laptops and prepare to face defeat, in, Coding Stadium! > > (Feel free to add yourself to the list: > <http://sites.google.com/site/mxugau/home/2011-06-15>. You don't need > to prepare to compete; you can just show up and go for it on the > night). > > The competition is expected to unfold something like: > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TscjsNMvnDg> > > Feel free to forward this on to anyone who you think is worthy of > competing! (Or anyone you want to embarrass with defeat ...) > > -- > Noon Silk | http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ > > > Fancy a quantum lunch? http://groups.google.com/group/quantum-lunch?hl=en > > "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy > of being this signature." >
