RADRACE 2006 - judgement day
Starting with a lot of optimism and confidence in our toolset, we had some trouble today in saving data. This took a long time to fix, mainly because of our little experience with the OR-mapping framework and de GUI components. Building just a small test app was clearly not enough preparation (as we had expected though...). Luckily, Rene managed to push out some reports in ASP.NET, which was a hell of a job as we did not discover any support for building ASP.NET applications in MonoDevelop. So he did it by hand (and with some browsing through the examples). This is clearly something to work on, because the technology already works. We also built a webservice, deployed it on the server to run under the XSP-webserver and called that from the Forms application we were developing, and it worked right away...
And then, at 13:00 sharp the final whistle blew...leave your keyboards and the room, gentlemen. The floor is for the jury now.
The long waiting for the judgement began, as teams are called in 1 by 1 to show their results to the jury (we were 7th in line...). But luckily there was food (litterally and for thought) enough to keep us busy. Discussions between teams started on 'did you build that' or 'how did you solve this'.
To be short about our own achievements, we did not build enough of the process to get a high score. But, because of our guts to do things completely different from the rest of the teams (see my previous blog for details), we 'won' the 'innovation prize': a set of mini-screwdrivers, because the jury felt there had to be some work done on the toolset we put together to get really competitive...
It was a lot of fun to attend, and we hope we can come back next year, possibly to defend our prize with another innovative, challenging development toolset.
Our prize:
