It has been a little over 6 hours since the API for the ironcoder.org competition was announced. The first 24 hours of Iron Coder were supposed to be used as a familiarisation period to learn the API. Fortunately I’m not totally unfamiliar with the accessibility API and a year or two ago I created a crude proof of concept for a neat little toy that used the API. So I’ve actually been coding during since the start of the project. I’m taking my old toy code and polishing it up and improving upon it. I have some neat ideas for it.
Now the real trick will have to happen tomorrow (uh - later today) when I’ll need to take the Iron Coder theme and apply it to my project. I’m hoping for a really tacky theme, like Elvis Presley impersonators or Pink Lawn Flamingos. Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch really picked a great API (all hail the chairman) and I am sure he won’t let us down with his choice of theme.
I’m not the only one starting coding early - I know a few people wont have much time during the second day of the competition so are hoping to score points on their use of the API alone. The beauty of this competition (I think, this is still our first attempt so who really knows how things will turn) is that it just encourages cool hacks.
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