Write an app in 30 minutes. Go!
Posted by Steve Quinlan on October 15 2009 @ 10:08
We just returned from the 2009 Meath Enterprise Day, an event organised by our client and friends at Meath County Enterprise Board. Today we lent a helping hand by setting up some online surveys using SurveyMonkey where participants were entered into a draw. It struck us shortly before the results were to be picked, that we had no elegant way to choose the results. It was nothing that a little Rails application wouldn’t solve.
Half an hour later, and thanks to SurveyMonkey’s export features, we had this little doozy which allowed an independent judge to choose the winner.
The end result is hardly rocket surgery, but the feeling of having a daft deadline, several hundred onlookers, and no margin for error is still intense and exhilarating. Making a real world app in 30 minutes will test your programming kung fu and ability to focus under pressure. Try it!