Got the Code? Now Meet the Competition…February 10, 2011
February 10, 2011 — Tel Aviv, Israel— If you’re a professional developer with a library of quality code you could be in the running to win $40,000 in cash and prizes.
Binpress, an appstore-like marketplace where developers buy and sell source code from one another, is hosting a competition for best developed and most useful source-code packages. From international judges with backgrounds across the entire spectrum of web development to industry-leading sponsors, this is more than just a fantastic chance for professional developers to be compensated for their work; it’s a unique opportunity to establish their credentials as high-level web developers.
To ensure the competition is of the highest standard, only professional web developers will be allowed to participate. The competition will run from January 24th until February 24th, with winners announced shortly thereafter. The deadline to submit is Thursday, February 24.
Prizes include:
Winners will receive both cash and prizes from our amazing sponsors:
• First Prize – valued at over $17,500, including a cash prize of $2,500 sponsored by Conduit.
• Second Prize – valued at over $8,000, including a cash prize of $1,200 sponsored by Microsoft.
• Third Prize – valued at approximately $5,000, including a cash prize of $800 sponsored by Microsoft.
• 6 individual category awards for best submission per language (PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, ASP.net, Python) totaling $10,000 including a cash prize of $2,000 sponsored by Tropo.
Our amazing sponsors:
In addition to Conduit, Microsoft and Tropo, the competition is sponsored by a number of industry leaders, such as Google, Amazon Web Services, PayPal and others:
Judges:
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Robert Diana: Robert is a software engineer, database developer, web developer, blogger at
RegularGeek.com and developer of
YackTrack.com.
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Jon Skeet: Jon is a software engineer at Google and is best known for his contributions to the C# community, mostly through
Stack Overflow, his blog, and his book “
C# in Depth”.
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Karsten Januszewski: Karsten is a software engineer at
Microsoft.
Judging guidelines
All submissions have to meet certain minimum requirement in order to be accepted. These requirements include following coding conventions and best practices while avoiding copyright violations.
Accepted submissions will be judged on:
• Development style & methodology
• Creativity & originality
• Usefulness & practicality
Contestants may submit multiple entries. Click
here for all the competition details.
About Binpress
Binpress was launched in October 2010 and is developed and operated by
Lionite, a web development shop from Israel. Lionite has been helping entrepreneurs build web applications and services since 2007 on such projects as
AfterDownload,
Fribiz and
Interlude. Binpress’s small and agile team focuses on usability and user-experience, as well as marketing and business development for the web.
Binpress acts as a source-code distribution platform for web frameworks (such as CakePHP and Django) and platforms (such as Wordpress and Joomla), as well as quality standalone components. Binpress’s goal is to offer high-quality and high-level source-code solutions for development projects and web ventures.
Binpress offers benefits to developers and consumers alike:
• Developers add a passive income channel by selling mature and tested source code. They can leverage Binpress' marketing and distribution efforts allowing them to focus on their expertise - software development.
• Buyers can be assured they are purchasing quality, tested code from professional web developers, and have access to solutions in a variety of platforms and frameworks. They receive a money-back guarantee as well as all future updates and fixes of the source code and the opportunity to contact the developer should it be required.
• Development time and costs are significantly reduced by leveraging professional, ready-to-use application code, allowing web projects and startups to focus on their unique problem domain.
About Conduit
Conduit© powers apps for over 260,000 web publishers and 200 million users. The free, award-winning Conduit Platform enables web publishers of all sizes to easily create apps using their own brand and content. Publishers can then distribute their apps both directly and via the Conduit App Marketplace and engage users constantly beyond the boundaries of their website.
The patented Conduit Platform is enabling global brands to market themselves online, including the Major League Baseball, Time Warner Cable, Univision, the Chelsea Football Club, Fox News, iVillage, the National Hockey League, Travelocity, and TechCrunch, as well as hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized organizations in more than 120 countries. Conduit-powered apps are compatible with all leading operating systems and Internet browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome. To learn more, visit
www.conduit.com.