FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wed Mar 30 11:58:39 CST 2005 LOCATION: http://iorcc.dyndns.org/2005/press/033005.html ANNOUNCEMENT: International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC) Entry Deadline March 31st, 2005 Less than 36 Hours Left, Over $2000.00 in Prizes! Dear Rubyists, Perlists, Shellists, Cists and Hackers, Well, it has boiled down to this, a great finish for the International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest, 2005 Edition. There is still 30 hours left to get your obscure and wacky Ruby code entered. Surf on over to the Official IORCC rules and website: http://iorcc.dyndns.org With over $2000 USD in prizes from notable industry leaders like Stone Design, OmniGroup, Lucious Monster, OpenBase, Bare Bones Software, O'reilly Press, Syngress, Purgatory Design, Running With Scissors, BasaSoft, Ecto, Puzzles Forever, Pragmatic Programmer, Bartas Tech, Macro Mates, Amrosia Software, Sol Robots, Code Tek, dbSuite and more! You just won't believe the list of prizes these generous people have committed to giving away! Dust off your Ruby compiler, take your Perl, Shell, Python and Tcl skills to the test, making a really obscure and obfuscated entry for this years contest. Entry window closes at 23:59:59 Universal Time March 31st, 2005. Official Sponsors, Rules and Entry Guidelines are available online at the IORCC Website. Enter Today! We'd like to also say thanks to the following people and companies in chronological order of sponsorship: - Dave Thomas, Signed copies of PickAxe and Ruby on Rails books! - Syngress Press, Ruby the Developers Guide (700+ pages of real world Ruby) - Purgatory Design's Intaglio, graphics application for charting obscure entrantants - Oreilly and Associates, The Ruby Nutshell book, need we say more? - Andrew Stone's, Stone Design Suite, Create, Graphics, WebApps, Applets and more! - Puzzles Forever, the folks that invented Solitaire Forever. - OpenBase SQL, OpenStep and now OSX Database solutions for Linux, Windows and MacOSX. - Postal2: Share the Pain from the sick puppies at Running With Scissors/Infamous Gary Coleman. - Sol Robot's CrosswordForge, word finder and crossword puzzle generator. Fun for all. - Bartas Technologies' CopyWrite, got a book or documents to publish? Use CopyWrite. - MacroMates' TextMate. Lightweight and POWERFUL code project management tool, really slick! - CodeTek's Virtual Desktop. The definitive way to expand and maximize your desktop workspace. - OmniGroup's Graffle and Outline, the way to go in professional presentations. - InterServices New Media's, dbSuite WebBuilder and SQL4X Manager J for OS X. - Ecto for OS X, the power of the blog! - BasaSoft's, BasaOne, the Integrated Web Application Development Environment. - Bare Bones Software, with Mail Smith and BBEdit, the Professional HTML editing for OS X. - Pipe, simple, elegant, powerful. The utility editor for OS X. - Ambrosia Software, with SnapzProX 2 and WireTap Pro. Make moves from the desktop! - Delicious Monster, with of course Delicious Library. Catalog your videos, music and more! A big thank you to all the contestants, sponsors and support from the Ruby community. We have had a great time putting this together, and now we can (almost) begin the judging process. Winners will be announced after noon April 1st, 2005. A public voting forum for the 2005 IORCC People's Choice Award will be opened with voting continuing thru the 15th of April, 2005. Winners will be announced shortly after the web voting is closed and counted. Best of luck to you all! Todd Nathan IORCC Founder/Judge irc://irc.freenode.net/iorcc (SeaForth) /content/iorcc/ "What you talkin about Willis?" - GC 2005 IORCC Sponsor Home Page Links: http://www.pragprog.com/ http://www.syngress.com/ http://www.purgatorydesign.com/ http://www.oreilly.com/ http://www.stone.com/ http://www.solitaireforever.com/ http://www.openbase.com/ http://www.gopostal.com/ http://www.solrobots.com/ http://www.bartastechnologies.com/ http://www.macromates.com/ http://www.codetek.com/ http://www.omnigroup.com/ http://www.dbsuite.de/ http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/ http://www.basasoft.com/ http://www.barebones.com/index.shtml http://www.kcore.de/ http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/ http://www.delicious-monster.com/