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Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

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Re: Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

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Wow, just amazing how much some people can do in such a short time. The winner's design is awesome http://findseri.es/tv_series/search

Is this a jquery plugin or something that they created themselves?

Entirely home–grown CSS with transitions via Sass/Compass by the ever–wonderful http://levibuzolic.com/.

Re: Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

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RR is always enjoyable. UI issue: I found the descriptions hard to read. Too many things thrown at me, and the thing I want to see, the description, is in a small font and low contrast color.

My teammate and I agreed that the site needs some work and thought it would have been fun to Rails Rumble a new Rails Rumble.

Agreed, although apparently this has been tried a few times without success. Do it next year!

Re: Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

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Awesome. There was a little bit of discussion here about the winner ( http://findthin.gs/ ) a few days ago at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4659320 . I have to say that I was really surprised with the prizes described at http://blog.railsrumble.com/2012/10/13/prizes-prizes-prizes/ . It seems modest given the sheer scale of the event (500 teams) and the size of some of the sponsors. Our local start-up weekend aw…

I think the prizes are actually pretty good considering the zero cost of entry. A local startup weekend I participated in had prizes that were far less than what was on offer for Rails Rumble 2012.

Re: Rails Rumble 2012 - Winners Announced

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was very impressed by that background animation for the first 10 seconds and then I got really dizzy. I think they should stop the animation a few sec after.

I really like the animation too. But I'm wondering why they chose to make a collage of movie posters if the search is for tv shows. Awesome nonetheless.

Also the collage has an even mix of TV and movies. :)
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