IORCC




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IORCC's Life List

  1. 1. Judge the IORCC
    1 entry
    1 person
  2. 2. Find More IORCC Sponsorship
    1 person
  3. 3. Master Ruby
    1 cheer
    179 people
  4. 4. Master Forth
    1 person
  5. 5. Complete SeaForth
    1 person
  6. 6. Port JSForth to Ruby
    2 people
  7. 7. Publish or Perish
    2 people
  8. 8. Code More
    9 people
  9. 9. witness the end of IE
    740 people
  10. 10. learn smalltalk
    79 people
  11. 11. Learn Perl
    248 people
  12. 12. learn python
    752 people
  13. 13. speak at RubyConf
    3 cheers
    7 people
  14. 14. Get a job where I can code in Ruby all day
    51 people
  15. 15. Program more in Ruby
    36 people
  16. 16. write an application on Rails
    1 cheer
    476 people
  17. 17. Learn Ruby
    1,841 people
  18. 18. Vegetable Gardening
    2 people
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Judge the IORCC
Building a Ruby Contest 4 years ago

Well, all this said it still comes down to a daily committment to promoting, constructing and learning Ruby. IORCC is a simple attempt by me to have fun again at coding. Much of the time I spent in the early years (late 70s and early 80s) coding were done so without very little time coding, and more time interacting with people, machines and socializing. Then came the big wave and business end of the industry. Now I’m back full circle rediscovering things and sorting thru all the trash left behind by the past 10 years of obfuscation we saw and warned folks about.

The 2005 International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC) is about a lot of things for me personally. The above obviously describes a midlife crisis. Looking at others works less critically and finding form and function where it may not have otherwise been appreciated. To get back to work, to make a positive difference in the world of software. And finally, to grow as a human, to help those around me while learning along the way.




 

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