TechAddress http://www.techaddress.com Providing the Latest User-Generated and Aggregate Technology News Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:22:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 en 131 Rails Apps Launched This Past Weekend; You Get To Vote For The Best http://www.techaddress.com/2008/10/23/131-rails-apps-launched-this-past-weekend-you-get-to-vote-for-the-best/ http://www.techaddress.com/2008/10/23/131-rails-apps-launched-this-past-weekend-you-get-to-vote-for-the-best/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:30:04 +0000 Company & Product Profiles rubyonrails rails rails-rumble http://www.techaddress.com/2008/10/23/131-rails-apps-launched-this-past-weekend-you-get-to-vote-for-the-best/ Source:TechCrunch

The 2008 Rails Rumble, a competition for Ruby on Rails coders, saw 131 web applications launch into the wild this past weekend. The quality of the applications increased dramatically this year, turning the competition into something of a startup hyper-incubator, with the goal of producing apps that not only win votes but become sustained products.

The rules are simple: you, along with up to three hacker friends, can’t start coding until midnight on Friday and you must finish by midnight on Sunday. All code is loaded into private GitHub repositories and all apps are deployed onto Linode virtual servers (both of which are provided for free by sponsors). And as the weekend draws to an end, your (hopefully) functional app will become frozen for testing and voting by anyone on the net.

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Only two days ago the contact messaging application Twitter suffered another bout of downtime, leaving some users frustrated and others asking why the platform continues to suffer problems.
I have recently spoken to an individual who is familiar with the technical problems at Twitter as well as the challenges that lay ahead for the startup. […]

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