ANN: 2005 International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC)

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Date: 03/19/05

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    IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Fri Mar 18 16:34:52 CST 2005
    LOCATION: http://iorcc.dyndns.org/2005/press/031805.html
    ANNOUNCEMENT: International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC)
                       Entry Deadline, Midnight on March 31st, 2005

    Dear Rubyists, Perlists, Shellists, Cists and Hackers,

    It is with GREAT pleasure to announce the final stretch of the 2005
    International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest (IORCC) and our wonderful
    sponsors and prizes. In addition to a covented right of claiming you
    are most obscure Ruby coder for 12 months time, you also have a shot at
    over 750 USD worth of prizes from the following wonderful sponsors
    (all of which are fantastic products and really nice friendly
    people)...

    Chronological order of sponsorship (see weblinks below):

      - 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. Simplicity with power.
      - Oreilly and Associates, The Ruby Nutshell book, need we say
        anything more?
      - Andrew Stone's, Stone Design Suite, Create, Graphics, WebApps,
        Applets and more! The ORIGINAL OSX Developer.
      - 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 and the Infamous Gary Coleman. Thanks Vince!
      - Sol Robot's CrosswordForge, word finder and crossword puzzle
        generator. Fun for all, super easy to use and fast!
      - Bartas Technologies' CopyWrite, got a book or documents to publish?
        Use CopyWrite, it will blow you away at how simple it is.
      - MacroMates' TextMate. Lightweight and POWERFUL code project
        management tool, really slick!

    The estimated total value of committed prizes by the Official IORCC
    Sponsors is approx. $750 USD. The deadline for submission is Midnight
    March 31, 2005. We hope you will be able to participate. This is
    turning into a GREAT fiesta!

    All entrants must read the submission guidelines (they are pretty slim
    and very friendly) to ensure their entry is accepted in a timely
    manner. Visit the Official IORCC website for more details and the
    Frequently Asked Questions for the 2005 IORCC event.

    Best of luck,

    Todd Nathan
    IORCC Founder/Judge
    irc://irc.freenode.net/iorcc (SeaForth)
    http://iorcc.dyndns.org/
    "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/

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