Quick and Dirty Messaging

Our Rails Rumble 2008 entry, Great Minds (you can have a look at the latest version or the original Rumble version), required a messaging system. Such systems are easy to do wrong, and we knew we’d need something that would stay solid under unknown load during Rumble judging.

The solution was quick & dirty (as most solutions are during Rails Rumble), but the results worked, and allowed us to qualify for judging and reach a respectable 28th place finish in the “Completeness” category.

Check out the details after the fold.

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The fruits of my labor with color and design

Hey again,

As you know from my previous post, I’ve been learning a bit about color and design.  I’ve taken what I’ve learned to help redesign our game site, Great Minds, from this:

Great Minds Homepage, v1.1

…to this:

Great Minds Homepage, v1.9

…and finally this:

Great Minds Homepage, v2.0

Obviously there’s a bunch of important stuff going on between v1.1 and v1.9, but there are very subtle, yet important things happening between v1.9 and v2.0.

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