gdp's Comments

Union Station : Win a Motorola DROID Programming Contest: "Worst App Server Technology Ever"

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:53:51 +0000

Feedback seems to be the contest was too complex for people to grok easily. We're not extending the current contest - but plan to make the next one a bit easier to approach

Union Station : Programming Contest! And the Challenge is...Measure Rails Momentum

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:13:50 +0000

Jeremy, Twitter info caching is simply an exception and a practical concession to Twitter rate limiting. There are 15k twitter ID's to lookup and there's no way that there are enough white-listed developers to provide a stateless lookup service.

Union Station : Win a Motorola DROID Programming Contest: "Worst App Server Technology Ever"

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:33:21 +0000

Well I would guess this is a neat way of implementing a subroutine that assembles a chain of other wasepoints, but I guess you're going to try to hack the program counter so that you get a hint that an incoming message is actually a return from a sub-routine? This would not be kosher. I will add restrictions on PC modification that makes this more explicit.

Union Station : Win a Motorola DROID Programming Contest: "Worst App Server Technology Ever"

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:27:31 +0000

Hi anonymous, we have to be able to verify the winning computation with our own kickoff message, so the first part won't be an issue. The second part yes might be an issue, but the computation will be difficult enough that people will need to use multiple points for the solution. We will also more definition on the scope of a WASE point.

Union Station : Win a Motorola DROID Programming Contest: "Worst App Server Technology Ever"

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:50:00 +0000

Well after you parse the message: If there are three bitly's, then they are output, input1, and input 2 If there are two bitly's, then they are output, input If there is one bitly, then that bitly is both input and output Each WASEpoint is free to decide whether it will accept multiple inputs, or emit a message with multiple inputs. You have to read the doc or code for a WASEpoint to decide whether you can use it or not.

Union Station : Win a Motorola DROID Programming Contest: "Worst App Server Technology Ever"

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:46:25 +0000

sorry, looks like no PHP

Union Station : Win a Motorola DROID Programming Contest: "Worst App Server Technology Ever"

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:53:05 +0000

ok Jon Crosby has volunteered to review any Scala winner! Scala is in!

Union Station : Win a Motorola DROID Programming Contest: "Worst App Server Technology Ever"

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 19:48:26 +0000

Incrementing & forward jumps is ok.

Union Station : Win a Motorola DROID Programming Contest: "Worst App Server Technology Ever"

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 19:47:50 +0000

If we can get an engineyard developer willing to review scala entries we'll add it. Stay tuned.

Union Station : Win a Motorola DROID Programming Contest: "Worst App Server Technology Ever"

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:09:24 +0000

Well, we wanted to give you the basics first so you can get started on the parsing/http/twitter foundations without giving people who happened to read the post early, first dibs on interesting WASEpoints. But without getting into too specifics, one of the challenge computations will be math based, and one will be text based.

Union Station : Win a Motorola DROID Programming Contest: "Worst App Server Technology Ever"

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:05:58 +0000

Urg. Reviewing oversight -- the POSTs, should, of course, be PUTs -- since the WASEpoint is asking to replace the existing resource at that location.

Union Station : Win a Motorola DROID Programming Contest: "Worst App Server Technology Ever"

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:03:39 +0000

You are correct -- this is now corrected

Union Station : Win a Motorola DROID Programming Contest: "Worst App Server Technology Ever"

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:03:29 +0000

Hi CBE -- latest update should have cleaned up the last inconsistencies.

Union Station : Win a Motorola DROID Programming Contest: "Worst App Server Technology Ever"

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:23:01 +0000

Hi Lee. It seems as if the link you point to was about someone posting an unauthorized copy of WASTE as free software. WASTE seems to be in continuing development: http://bit.ly/2dcsAC. But since WASTE is in the same general area as the contest, we'll make things simpler and change the terminology to WASE "Worst App Server Ever"

Union Station : Programming Contest! Win iPhone 3GS & $2,000 Cloud Credit

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:52:17 +0000

We're posting the challenge at noon pacific time-- as we mentioned in the blog post, you will have 30 hours to search before the 6pm cutoff tomorrow.

Engine Yard Blog (STAGING) : Hello world, this is Engine Yard Staging

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:38:56 +0000

Hello world