Code master challenge, 1 year later
Nico Vuyge
10/20/2007 9:00:05 AM
About 1 year ago, I chosen by Microsoft as finalist of the Code Master Challenge. Unfortunately, one year later, very
little remains to be found on the Internet about this contest. To my knowledge, Microsoft never officially announced the winners
list, at least not with their full names. The Code Master Contest web site (which at least contained my first name and
initial of my last name) disappeared from the net a couple of months later. So the publicity I hoped for never got realised.
The winner apparently was Electric Rain with
their Standout Presentation Solution. Apparently
there were 4400 registrants, which was much higher than I expected.
So,to remember myself that this was real, I saved a scan of the offical notice I got that I
was a winner.
Postscript: Although the Code Master Challenge website disappeared, the internet archive has captured the results for eternity. Read the official winners
list here.
Nico Vuyge is a freelance software developer in East-Flanders (Belgium),
specializing in Microsoft technologies. Nico has fully embraced managed software development in C# after a decade of software development in the unmanaged world in C++.
Apart from his interests in state-of-the-art managed
software development, he is also interested in the
hardware aspects of informatics, in particular
performance and silent computing related aspects. For more
details, see our company history , or contact him directly at nicov@iconstructions.be.
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