I think I’ll make it a habit to rhyme in my post titles as much as possible.

There was talk today around the Lab about fielding a team for Rails Rumble, a web app competition happening the weekend of September 8 & 9 with rules that are similar to Startup Weekend.  While Rails Rumble is new, it spawned from Railsday which has been around since ‘05.

After visiting the first Startup Weekend in Boulder, I blogged about how the technology challenges are often the toughest to overcome when building a web business.  Rails Rumble avoids the major problem Startup Weekend faced – debating what technology to use throughout.  The four-person-per-team limit avoids the other major challenge: too many cooks in the kitchen.

We’re helping to organize Startup Weekend DC on October 26, 27, & 28 and while the team-size challenge is still TBD, the tech decision has already been made: Rails it is!