I am glad to announce that we have winners of Central and Eastern Europe of “Win The Web and Discover Yourself!” contest in 2008. And the winners are:
Best Student Team: HP Team from Poland (89 points)
Prize: 3 free tickets to TechEd in Barcelona !
Best Company: Team Carnation from Hungary (91 points)
(I don’t have image. Send me If you have any.)
Prize: engagement with the Microsoft Innovation Center team in Copenhagen!
About contest
Challenge took place almost two weeks ago (17-18 May) and consisted in creating one main application and three extra tasks, during only 24 hours of development with only a couple of snack breaks and no time for sleep. All participants started coding at 12:00 on Saturday and finished at 12:00 on Sunday.
The main task consisted in creating a web application for monitoring a fleet of lorries for a cargo forwarding company. The contestants were encouraged to take advantage of such cutting-edge Microsoft technologies as Silverlight, Virtual Earth, Windows Communication Foundation Services, LINQ to Database, live.com services, etc.
Winners in countries:
Czech
- 1st: team Helios
- 2nd: team Code4Fun
- 3rd: team dotNETfellas
Hungarian
- 1st: Digitalmania (Student first prize)
- 1st: Carnation (Best Company)
- 2nd. Bounch of mice
Fair Play : Team Agysejt and Team Technik
Interware's special prize: Northwind
ITSecure's special prize: The Turing
Polish
- 1st: HP Team (me and my team)
- 2nd: UTP.NET TEAM
- 3rd: Devenue
Ukrainian
- 1st (student team): Best Future
- 1st (company): SoftServe
- 2nd : Ukrainian students
- 3rd: CTeam
And the reason why I am so happy about this is that I was one of participants and a member of them (HP TEAM) which won Polish and European part of contest. Members of HP TEAM: Michal Drozdowicz, Jakub Korczak and me, Jacek Ciereszko.
But because it’s not nice to boast I will just show our applications. ;)
Our Applications (Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1)
First we had to create entry application to participate in contest. We had a list of propositions and every team had to choose one and implement it. It was mandatory rule to participate in contest.
I and my team (HP TEAM) chose solitaire game. We create application using Silverlight and you can play this game here:
Solitaire
The main application and Task 2 are connected to one application and you can see it here:
Main Application
Before you say something wrong or you find a bug, please remember that all entrants had only 24 hours and we didn’t have time to write tests and implements all features.
More information
My polish blog: link
Summary
The reason why I wrote this post is because I wanted to thank to organizers. In this year they gave chance to participate also for people from other countries, like Poland. I hope that in next year this contest will be in all European countries and we all meet again.
See you on Tech-Ed 2008 (Barcelona, Spain),
Jacek Ciereszko