And I’ve been 6th. So I won a shared 2 host­ing plan at web­fac­tion and a 12 pack of G33K B33R caf­feinated root beer (still trying to under­stand what this is exactly, anyway) from bawls. Anyway, here fol­lows a short resume of what hap­pened from Sat­ur­day through Tues­day (if you’re asking your­self why it didn’t ended on Sunday, well, keep reading).

The com­pe­ti­tion began very well, I worked nor­mally for the first part of the day but then I had to stop for a while. When I came back, svn and djan­go­dash web­site was not work­ing any­more. I ini­tially thought that it was some con­nec­tion issue but when I saw that other sites were work­ing prop­erly so they def­i­nitely had some problems.

I just waited, then gone sleep­ing. In the morn­ing I received in my mail­box a mes­sage that informed me of a big power outage in The Planet dat­a­cen­ter where web­fac­tion hosts a lot of their server (among the which there was the djan­go­dash one) caused by power generator’s explo­sion. Then the com­pe­ti­tion has been delayed for other two days, so I decided to take a breath and wait ‘till the svn would came back. But that didn’t happen on Sunday, so after a while I chosen (as the mail sug­gested) to work locally with­out com­mit­ting any­thing at least until the svn return.

Then Monday came and I had other things to do, so I had to post­pone djan­go­dash for the evening when I’d freed myself from other, most urgent things. On Monday I did a very little coding, as well on Tues­day. So at the end of com­pe­ti­tion I cannot com­plete my project, and not even reach the 50% milestone.

Today I dis­cov­ered that I was one of the win­ners (ok not really, 6th place was not really a good place, but at least I tried) and I really have to thanks the orga­niz­ers for this event and hope to join another djan­go­dash next year. Maybe, as I said to one of them in an email thread, host­ing the site/svn in two dif­fer­ent dat­a­cen­ters, just to be insured against even­tual thun­der­storms, tor­nado, earth­quakes and so on…). I have to say that I really enjoyed the whole thing, and hope to have more com­peti­tors next year!

If you want to get more news about final process of djan­go­dash with some stats, read this arti­cle on the Toast Driven web­site (that’s the com­pany that ran the dash).