Squid Attack Wrap-Up

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Dana Jones

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Aug 2, 2009, 6:03:45 PM8/2/09

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The first 48-hour Squid Attack is now a wrap! We accomplished our goal of getting more courseware written and edited, and implemented changes to make use of Redmine's built-in breadcrumb functionality. Here are the highlights:

1) We had six participants besides myself - Noel Gomez (@noel_g), David Knorr (@perplect), Douglas Campos (@qmx), Hector Sansores (@hectorsq), Nikolay Petrachkov (@nick_jastix), and Tore Darell (@toretore). Half of these were familiar faces to the Rails Tutor projects, but Noel, David, and Tore are all new team members. They worked at intervals over the course of the 48-hour period when they had time to spare. Thanks so much to each one of you for your hard work!

2) Our team represented a truly international effort. Our team members were from Denmark, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, France, and the United States. Between us, we were able to work almost around the clock!

3) We went through each courseware topic and assigned meaningful titles and parent topics. Benefits to doing this were that the "Recently Updated" list reads more naturally, and each topic has automatic breadcrumb (backlinks) at the top to aid in students' navigation.

4) We reviewed several topics that had been outstanding for weeks, as well as some that were written over the weekend. Overall, we reviewed 10 topics.

5) Two topics were translated into Spanish: Contribuyendo al Wiki ( http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Contribuyendo_al_Wiki ), and Conceptos básicos de Rails ( http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Conceptos_b%C3%A1sicos_de_Rails )

6) We had fourteen new topics written, and two more started! The list of completed topics follows:

Installing Rails on Ubuntu - http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Ubuntu

Filters - http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Filters

Javascript / DOM - http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/DOM

OOP - http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/OOP

Basic Programming Concepts - http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Basic_Programming

Code repos - http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Code_Repos

Javascript Basics - http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Javascript_Basics

Partials - http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Partials

What is a Script? - http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/What_Is_A_Script

Javascript - http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Javascript

Text - http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Text

Migrations - http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Migrations

Views and Layouts - http://railstutor.org/projects/rails-tutor/wiki/Views_and_Layouts

Fonts and Colors - http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Fonts_and_Colors

BUT WHO WON?

The wonderful people at JetBrains offered us three Rubymine licenses as incentives for participants of the Squid Attack. Names were randomly drawn from among all of our participants, and the luck Rubymin license winners were:

1) Douglas Campos

2) Nikolay Petrachkov

3) David Knorr

Congratulations, guys!! I'll be in touch with you privately to discuss this a bit more.

But this is RailsBridge, and nobody goes away empty-handed. Our corporation president, Mike Gunderloy, has graciously offered a free copy of each of his two e-books (Rails Rescue Handbook and Rails Freelancing Handbook) to each and every one of our six participants! Noel, David, Douglas, Hector, Nikolay, and Tore - please email Mike at mik...@larkfarm.com with your email address, and he will handle the rest!

I am so thrilled with our success, and I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to everybody who supported this effort in any way. I'm sure this will be just the first of many successful Squid Attacks!

Have a great week!

Dana

Nikolay jastix

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Aug 3, 2009, 3:04:24 AM8/3/09

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Thank you for great experience! and for prizes too.
Dana, you right, after all, this is a success.

On Aug 3, 2:03 am, Dana Jones <djo...@larkfarm.com> wrote:
> The first 48-hour Squid Attack is now a wrap! We accomplished our
> goal of getting more courseware written and edited, and implemented
> changes to make use of Redmine's built-in breadcrumb functionality.
> Here are the highlights:
>
> 1) We had six participants besides myself - Noel Gomez (@noel_g),
> David Knorr (@perplect), Douglas Campos (@qmx), Hector Sansores
> (@hectorsq), Nikolay Petrachkov (@nick_jastix), and Tore Darell
> (@toretore). Half of these were familiar faces to the Rails Tutor
> projects, but Noel, David, and Tore are all new team members. They
> worked at intervals over the course of the 48-hour period when they
> had time to spare. Thanks so much to each one of you for your hard work!
> 2) Our team represented a truly international effort. Our team members
> were from Denmark, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, France, and the United
> States. Between us, we were able to work almost around the clock!
> 3) We went through each courseware topic and assigned meaningful
> titles and parent topics. Benefits to doing this were that the
> "Recently Updated" list reads more naturally, and each topic has
> automatic breadcrumb (backlinks) at the top to aid in students'
> navigation.
> 4) We reviewed several topics that had been outstanding for weeks, as
> well as some that were written over the weekend. Overall, we reviewed
> 10 topics.

> 5) Two topics were translated into Spanish: Contribuyendo al Wiki (http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Contribuyendo_al_Wiki
> ), and Conceptos básicos de Rails (http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Conceptos_b%C3%A1sicos_de_Rails

> )
> 6) We had fourteen new topics written, and two more started! The list
> of completed topics follows:
>
> Installing Rails on Ubuntu -http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Ubuntu
> Filters -http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Filters
> Javascript / DOM -http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/DOM
> OOP -http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/OOP
> Basic Programming Concepts -http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Basic_Programming
> Code repos -http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Code_Repos
> Javascript Basics -http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Javascript_Basics

> Partials -http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Partials

> What is a Script? -http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/What_Is_A_Script
> Javascript -http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Javascript
> Text -http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Text
> Migrations -http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Migrations
> Views and Layouts -http://railstutor.org/projects/rails-tutor/wiki/Views_and_Layouts

> Fonts and Colors -http://railstutor.org/projects/1/wiki/Fonts_and_Colors

Nikolay jastix

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Aug 3, 2009, 3:08:09 AM8/3/09

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Thank you for great experience! and for prizes too.
Dana, you right, after all, this is a success.

On Aug 3, 2:03 am, Dana Jones <djo...@larkfarm.com> wrote:

> The first 48-hour Squid Attack is now a wrap! We accomplished our
> goal of getting more courseware written and edited, and implemented
> changes to make use of Redmine's built-in breadcrumb functionality.
> Here are the highlights:
>
> 1) We had six participants besides myself - Noel Gomez (@noel_g),
> David Knorr (@perplect), Douglas Campos (@qmx), Hector Sansores
> (@hectorsq), Nikolay Petrachkov (@nick_jastix), and Tore Darell
> (@toretore). Half of these were familiar faces to the Rails Tutor
> projects, but Noel, David, and Tore are all new team members. They
> worked at intervals over the course of the 48-hour period when they
> had time to spare. Thanks so much to each one of you for your hard work!
> 2) Our team represented a truly international effort. Our team members
> were from Denmark, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, France, and the United
> States. Between us, we were able to work almost around the clock!
> 3) We went through each courseware topic and assigned meaningful
> titles and parent topics. Benefits to doing this were that the
> "Recently Updated" list reads more naturally, and each topic has
> automatic breadcrumb (backlinks) at the top to aid in students'
> navigation.
> 4) We reviewed several topics that had been outstanding for weeks, as
> well as some that were written over the weekend. Overall, we reviewed
> 10 topics.

> )
> 6) We had fourteen new topics written, and two more started! The list
> of completed topics follows:
>