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+title: "New Pointless Project: OfficeGames"
+date: 2012-02-28T00:00:00+00:00
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+
+*This post originally appeared on [Pointless
+Corp](http://pointlesscorp.com/).*
+
+We're a competitive company, so for this year's [Pointless
+Weekend](http://www.pointlesscorp.com/blog/2012-pointless-weekend-kicks-off),
+the team in Viget's Durham office thought it'd be cool to put together a
+simple app for keeping track of competitions around the office. 48 hours
+later (give or take), we launched [OfficeGames](http://officegam.es/).
+We're proud of this product, and plan to continue improving it in the
+coming weeks. Some of the highlights for me:
+
+## Everyone Doing Everything
+
+We're a highly collaborative company, but by and large, when it comes to
+client work, everyone on the team has a fairly narrow role.
+[Zachary](https://www.viget.com/about/team/zporter) writes Ruby code.
+[Todd](https://www.viget.com/about/team/tmoy) does UX.
+[Jeremy](https://www.viget.com/about/team/jfrank) focuses on the front
+end. Not so for Pointless weekend -- UX, design, and development duties
+were spread out across the entire team. Everyone had the repo checked
+out and was committing code.
+
+## Responsive Design with Bootstrap
+
+We used Twitter's [Bootstrap](https://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/)
+framework to build our app. The result is a responsive design that
+shines on the iPhone but holds up well on larger screens. I was
+impressed with how quickly we were able to get a decent-looking site
+together, and how well the framework held up once Jeremy and
+[Doug](https://www.viget.com/about/team/davery) started implementing
+some of [Mark](https://www.viget.com/about/team/msteinruck)'s design
+ideas.
+
+## Rails as a Mature Framework
+
+I was impressed with the way everything came together on the backend. It
+seems to me that we're finally realizing the promise of the Rails
+framework: common libraries that handle the application plumbing, while
+still being fully customizable, so developers can quickly knock out the
+boilerplate and then focus on the unique aspects of their applications.
+We used [SimplestAuth](https://github.com/vigetlabs/simplest_auth),
+[InheritedResources](https://github.com/josevalim/inherited_resources),
+and [SimpleForm](https://github.com/plataformatec/simple_form) to great
+effect.
+
+Sign your office up for [OfficeGames](http://officegam.es/) and then add
+your coworkers to start tracking scores. Let us know what you think!