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Taking the blue AND the red pill

Nico Vuyge

Using IValueConverter in WinRT from C++

Google's performance analysis comparing C++, Java, Scala and Go

Very high cpu usage when using the ADO.Net Data Services Client or Azure StorageClient to access Windows Azure Diagnostics performance counter data

An unexpected issue with the Azure StorageClient and continuation tokens.

PDC 2009: Inside the Windows Azure container.

Hosting images via the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network

Arrived in LA for the 2009 PDC

We are now live on Windows Azure.

Preparing for the PDC.

Succeeded in 70-502 exam.

PDC 2008 Here I come

SEO improvements

Code master challenge, 1 year later

Building a silent server (again)

Semi-Finalist Codemaster Challenge

Announcing Blogoholic.

Make your blog discoverable in Internet Explorer 7.

Databinding a position in Avalon.

URL Deployment performance issues

URL Deployment bloopers.

Experimenting with assembly load time.

When is an assembly loaded?

I'll be there

Hello World


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.

View Nico Vuyge's profile on LinkedIn 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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