NKO 2012 Kick Off at Joyent SF HQ
November 09, 2012 - by joyentlindsay
Happy Node Knockout 2012 kick off! It’s 9:30pm here at the Node Knockout headquarters in San Francisco, but teams from all over the world started hacking four hours ago at 12am UTC / 4pm PST. Competitors started trickling into Joyent’s office to stake out their hacking spots around 3pm, taking a break around 6pm to eat, drink and get the official welcome from the Node Knockout organizers, Visnu Pitiyanuvath @visnup and Gerad Suyderhoud @gerad and Isaac Schlueter @izs, “step-father” of Node.js.
Isaac shared some crucial bits of information about using Node, promised that he wasn’t screwing with us and even gave a tip about how to code with fonts.
Follow @node_knockout for progress on this 48 hour expedition.
Here’s a quick rundown of what’s happened so far:
We set up Security (Ryan doing security - right):
NKO Organizers welcomed everybody while avatars
chatted in real-time on Nodeknockout.com (right):
Isaac promised everyone that we can trust him:
"I'm not making stuff up just to screw with you guys, this is really in the language." --@izs @joyent @node_knockout twitter.com/jmclulow/statu…
— Joshua M. Clulow (@jmclulow) November 10, 2012
Everyone started working, or at least @eduarbo and
Team TangoSource did (right):
Some people started drinking beer (right):
NKO Joyent HQ event organizer @mle_tanaka, with @LindsayofSF,
and @wickedrb.
Nobody has cracked and started playing ping-pong yet (right):
Here are some helpful links and tips:
- irc is the best place to get help with deployment and nodejitsu: #nodejitsu on irc.freenode.net. You can also email support@nodejitsu.com.
- If you haven’t used nodejitsu before check this blog post: Getting started with Nodejitsu.
- The expert judges ask that you submit a short screencast to highlight what you think is best about your app. This can happen after the coding period ends. @visnup
- Here’s the link to download Century Schoolbook Mono. Now anyone can experience the joys of coding in serif! “There’s a reason it’s in books, easy to read. Your eyes will thank you” @izs.
- Official crowdsourced soundtrack to NKO3 http://turntable.fm/nko3.
Happy Hacking!