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Rails Day 2006 projects
June 17 was Rails Day 2006, the annual worldwide event in which teams create cool new web apps in 24 hours using the much-hyped Ruby on Rails web application framework. I've been waiting ever since for a list of projects to be posted, but so far none has materialized at the official Rails Day site, but fortunately John at Burm.net has posted an unofficial list of live Rails Day 2006 projects. His list isn't comprehensive, but it lists 28 sites created in 24 hours that are now live in some form or another (except for the several that appear to be down). A few of the more stand-out projects are Roomind.us, Advisr, HugTracker, d20 Online, and Sneakology. Having been built in 24 hours, most of these sites are still pretty rough around the edges, but more than a year after I first heard of it I'm still impressed by what people are accomplishing with Ruby on Rails.[Via Waxy.org]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
