The Ultimate Coder Battle Returns

And the FTW! Coding Competition Champion is…
Timothy Dalby with his app FindAHome!

Congratulations to our winners:

Find-a-Home
- FTW! Coding Competition Champion
- Best Open Data App
- Best MS SQL App
- Best Azure App

TaxiCity
- Best student app

Project Tholus
-Best PHP app

The winners were announced on May 27th at the exclusive Make Web Not War Truce Party. The fight was tight at the main event, “Make Web Not War”, but FindAHome came out on top in the end. Congratulations Timothy Dalby!

FindAHome is a property research engine that uses the Edmonton Open Data catalogue on Windows Azure to rank properties based on proximity to public landmarks. Timothy takes home the Grand Prize – a Dell Home Office Computer Make Over – as well as the bonus prizes for Best Azure App, Best MS SQL App, and Best Open Data App, an Ultra Portable Vostro V13 Notebook, a Dell M109S Projector; a TV Sharp 32″ LCD TV Bundle – W/Bluray Disc Player; and a Dell Zino.

The Microsoft Open Source team would like to say thank you to all the registrants of the FTW! Coding Competition 2010. We received a ton of excellent entries from PHP, Azure and Open Data programmers across Canada. Stay tuned for the 2011 battle!

If you had to give your coding skills a level,
would the word “ninja” come to mind?

Now’s your chance to put those skills to the test, going toe-to-toe with Canada’s best and brightest web developers during the FTW! Coding Competition. Choose your weapon…ahem…language and platform to develop the next great Canadian Web App. Walk ten paces, turn, and…dazzle the country with your incredible new app!
Along with an awesome grand prize worth fighting for (Dell Office Make Over), the FTW! Coding Competition not only grants the winner bragging rights as one of Canada’s top web developers, but also awards the two runner-ups with top of the line Dell prizes as well.

Here’s the deal: Simply code or port a web application onto Windows/IIS or Windows Azure. That’s it, that’s all. All applications that fall into any of the following categories, and are on Windows/IIS or the Windows Azure Cloud are eligible.

PHP Application (PHP on Windows+IIS or PHP on Windows Azure)
Windows Azure Cloud Application (Any Language: .Net, PHP, Ruby, Python…)
Open Government Application (Use of Open Data Catalogues on Windows or Windows Azure on Any Language)

Competition submissions is now closed. Thank you to all who submitted an app! Stay tuned for news on finalists.

Once the hard work is done, a panel of industry judges will choose three finalists to battle it out for the grand prize at the “Make Web, Not War” conference this May in Montreal!

Prizes

BONUS PRIZES

Best Azure Application: Ultra Portable Vostro V13 Notebook, Dell M109S Projector
Best PHP Application: Dell Studio One 19 Inch All in One
Best Open Government Application: Dell Studio Hybrid Ultra-Compact Desktop
Best Application that uses Microsoft ® SQL Server: TV Sharp 32″ LCD TV Bundle – W/Bluray Disc Player
Best Student Application: XBOX 360™ Elite, 6 Game and 2 Controller Bundle, 22″ LCD TV, Logitech X-540 Surround Sound Speaker System

Your application can be eligible for more than one bonus prize.

Last year the FTW! Coding Competition sought out the best PHP on Windows applications in the nation. It pitted students against professional developers to see who could create the best web application.

It was Carson Lam, a student from the University of British Columbia, who took 1st prize. His application, TransitDB, revolutionized the navigation of the public transport system in the city of Vancouver. The runner up was Dac Chartrand, a professional developer from Montreal and worthy contender with his innovative Naive Bayesian CMS, Sux0r.

Is this the year YOU get crowned as the FTW Champion?

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