I think the rule for the next competition should be "How many Poles does it take to change a light bulb?"

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This is my first 200-reply thread.

Ooooh, which reminds me, are you going to be hosting the ChristmasHack again this year, Jakub?

For sure, I think the previous one was something of a success (especially considering it was announced, IIRC, some three days before it started ) and am looking forward to this year's. There will be some changes, but the basic formula will stay the same.

Yarr!

http://cgamesplay.com/minorhack/

Now you can log in, and navigate to your entry page (see http://cgamesplay.com/minorhack/competitions/1), and from there upload notes and a revised version (the edit link is at the bottom of the entry page).

I will eventually be allowing HTML to the notes section, but until then you can't use it.

I'm out too. Too much work to do in real life, too short deadlines.
Good luck for you all.

I should be able to. I reserve Saturdays for coding on my projects and playing games.

Hey, man, come on . Don't you want to be the nasty Poles? I'm in, of course, unless something unexpected happens.

I checked out the new site and I found one annoying thing - every downloadable source file is called entry.cpp, which has two drawbacks:

1) If you put them in one dir, you have to rename them by hand, and more importantly
2) All the files have a CPP extension, and compilers automatically assume C++ mode - while some entries are actually in pure C and won't compile as C++ (due to C++ being more strict about stuff).

I suppose you could do something like [first five chars of name]_[member number]_[minihack number].[user specified extension] ...
Nice job with the site, anyway!

I'll probably compete in this next hack.

/me needs to code the file upload tonight >_<

You were right, but it is fixed.

click here, set your time zone properly, and profit Time zone is in the format of either "EDT" etc, or "America/New_York", etc.

The site is the final say on when the competition is, and it says 6 p.m. UTC, which is 1800. I guess I should also code in support for locales.

If I say "almost", will you be confident?

The login system is really Mathew's doing

No, as you can see from that link, it's actually a link to Allegro.cc, with data that says where to go back to after the user successfully logs in. Since you were already logged in, it didn't ask you to again. You have to get permission from Matthew in order to use the system on your site. Also when you return to the site you take an ID Allegro.cc gave you and give it to me. I use that ID to get an XML-formatted version of your profile (I don't get any private information). I can use that to add your entry to my local database.

Unfortunately I don't get timezone info (I don't know whether Matthew considers this private or just didn't consider adding it, he hasn't yet responded to my request), so you have to set that manually. Email isn't used yet, eventually it will be for notifying you of competitions you want to participate in.

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Be careful when setting your time zone. You need to pick on that is DST-aware. relpatseht, I'm looking at you. I recommend America/New_York...

The extra competition was me testing the file upload code. I don't believe in test environments.

Anyways, it all works now, with language selection. Of course, you can't change the language without re-uploading your entry, but I don't know how in the world that could be a problem.

Files are named by member number, as that was the easiest to code.

I still don't have a good judging scheme, though. Any ideas?

I vote for a ranking of everyone else's entry in first to last order in each of the categories interesting and quality. For example:

Interesting: Kikaru, Onewing, Jakub
Quality: Onewing, Kikaru, Jakub

There will be two winners, one for each category.

Does everyone agree, or propose an alternative?

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Also tell me entry numbers that should be changed to C lanuage.