I wonder what it says about the whole thing that their content hasn't apparently passed through a proof-reading process. 

For most developers it is a case of when not if they will need to deve
+lop ...

But how to get starting something ...

we will announce a winner, confirming upon one of you the honour and g
+lory ...

... the honour and glory of raising the first IBM Bluemix Programming 
+Competition

[download]

I mean, I'm sure the blurb was written by a register.co.uk hack, not an IBM hacker, but still!

Anyhow, you can submit any URLs and files, and it's not required to register for BlueMix to submit a solution (I tested), so BrowserUK I say you go for it and send them perl programs that may be disallowed, but not without embarrassing the rest of the field.

Looking at the rules closely, you get 60 seconds for your program to produce as many answers as possible, so creating enough sample data to profile your solution will itself be a bit of a task.

The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: IBM Cloud Challenge. by 1nickt
in thread IBM Cloud Challenge. by BrowserUk

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