Please forgive the repost from my blog, but I thought folks might be interested.
Back during the ColdFusion 8 beta, there was a contest held (just for
beta participants) called the Best of Scorpio. The idea was to create
something, anything, that helped showcase some of ColdFusion 8's new
features. Unfortunately, Adobe was unable to hold the contest again
this time around. I spoke with Adobe about this and volunteered to
help manage a new round - which we are calling the Best of ColdFusion
9 contest. Best of all - it is open to anyone and everyone (whether or
not you were a beta tester).
The contest begins today and we've got some stellar prizes lined up
from Adobe. What kind of prizes? How about a ColdFusion 9 Enterprise
license, a ColdFusion Builder license (when released), a Flash Builder
4 license (ditto), a set of CFWACK 9 books (ditto again), and even
more on top of that? That's just for the grand prize winner. Runner
ups (three of them) will get CFB and FB4. Not only that, each and
every participant will get something nice from Adobe. We've actually
got more prizes than what I've said here, but I'm keeping a few things
secret for now.
So what are the details?
* The contest begins today and ends November 30 at 11:59PM CST.
* Your entry must be emailed to [email protected].
* Entries will be judged by myself and multiple members of the
ColdFusion Adobe Community Expert group. They will be judged
numerically purely on how cool the individual judge feels the entry
is. Yes - this is subjective - but with multiple judges I think it
will be pretty fair.
* Your entry should be something I can run myself (so nothing tied
to a database or other resource behind your firewall) and should come
with installation instructions. Note - you can use a database - what I
meant is - nothing tied to a DB the judges can't run themselves.
* Your entry should come with a short paragraph describing the
submission and what it features.
* You must be able to license your submission so that others can
look and play with it, but you can certainly restrict the license to
just that, in case you want to build something for future commercial
sales. Obviously if a new open source project comes out of this, that
would rock.
* Judging will commence December 1st and end on the 10th. If a
large number of submissions come in, that may change slightly.
So what kind of entries are acceptable? Anything. It need not be some
new, large scale project. It can be small. It also doesn't need to be
useful. By that consider the ColdFusion Maze code I did. While not
useful in any way whatsoever, the code was fun and showcased some
interesting math. The only real directive here is that you demonstrate
ColdFusion 9 features. This can be anything from ORM to CFMAP to
CFSPREADSHEET. The sky is the limit.
If you have any questions, please let me know below. Big thanks to
Adobe for sponsoring this. I listed a "suggested" list of prizes which
they not only agreed to but increased. (Tsk tsk, next time I'll just
be more greedy!) Also thank you to Liz Frederick for the logo design.
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Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master
Email : [email protected]
Blog : www.coldfusionjedi.com
AOL IM : cfjedimaster
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