So we're at deadline minus six hours and I have yet to actually write a single line of code for my submission! But this website's infrastructure is looking good for the donations and whatnot, which is really all that's important. Writing Ruby on Rails code after not touching it for eight months is harder than I'd expected. :) Hopefully I can get time to actually write holiday code tomorrow and only lose one day of competitive edge!

Hey Hey!

I think I'm going to write something in the vein of a very simplified holiday-inspired Desktop Wars. I've thought of a possible way of getting the desktop icons, which was one of the big hurdles behind DW. Not sure if it'll work or not, but it's worth a shot!

It's sort of insane to try something like this with only two days to work on it (and contract work in the way, too!), but hey, it's for charity! :)

Oh yeah, bio - I'm the author of ShapeShifter and ThemePark, the project mangler for Chicken of the VNC, and the developer of the upcoming My Dream App winner Atmosphere. I've got a background in electrical engineering and quantum computing and have been a Mac Geek About Town since 1991.