Cody Fauser

Way back on June 16th, Tobi, Daniel, and I decided to enter the Rails Day 2006 programming contest. The contest was on June 17th. Somehow the theme became ninjas and Ninjistix was born.

A really good overview of Ninjistix and the rest of the Rails Day winners can be found on Evan Weaver's blog.

The day was really good. We started around 9am or so and worked until 12am that night. I can't really say that I did anything productive after around 9pm, but hey, we stuck it out to the end.

What I loved most about doing the project was the kind of discussions we had regarding the project. I remember asking "Ok, so add an attack method to the Ninja model?". Then later on I can recall Tobi announcing "I just added an RSS feed for the Ninja's kills". The bugs were also amusing: "Why does meditating cause the ninja to lose consciousness?" I don't remember hearing too much from Daniel, but that's because he was creating the killer UI that even included little Ninja attack and action icons.

So, the end result.... We won first prize for the most creative entry! Kudos to my teamates. I still can't believe how much work a team of 3 can do in one day. Also, congratulations to the other teams and thanks to the judges for judging the copious number of entries (> 100).