Wonderful, thanks for the excellent write-up Dan. Data 'migration' is relevant to me, so keen to study that.
Let's all get behind another shot at it next year, Go Apache Isis! On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 12:57 AM, Dan Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sept 25th and 26th we (Jeroen van der Wal & Dan Haywood) took part in > the Original RAD Race competition. This is a competition staged each year, > this year (as in previous years) hosted and sponsored by Cap Gemini, and > held in their offices in Utrecht, Netherlands. > > The competition consists of teams of exactly two team members; there were > eight in total. The competition is held under very strict conditions: 8 > hours of development on the first day, and a further 4 hours of coding the > next. If you do the maths you’ll work out that means a sum total of 24 > hours (2 team members x 12 hours), or 3 person-days. > > We asked and were granted permission to develop our application as open > source; our entry is in a github repo [1]. If you look through the commit > history you’ll see that all the work was done in those 12 hours (8 on 25 > Sept 2015, a further 4 on 26 Sept). > > All the other teams used proprietary tools such as NoutBuilder, ThinkWise, > Progress, SalesForce, Uniface and Mendix. We were the only open source > entry, using Apache Isis [2] (along with supporting modules in Isis Addons > [3]); in fact we think we are the first open source entry in the 17 years > history of the competition. > > OK, we didn’t win… but we got the impression we were mid-table, which we > think is pretty good in the face of the competition. But you can judge for > yourself; either download and build the code, or simply take a look at the > various screenshots/our commentary on the README of the repo [1]. > > The README also has some of our "learnings" that we concluded from taking > part in the competition. > > > [1] https://github.com/incodehq/radrace2015 > [2] http://isis.apache.org/ > [3] http://www.isisaddons.org/ >
