We finally have our mobile contest winners!

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who participated, we had many great entries and our judges had their work cut out for them deciding on the best ones.

3rd place award:

Our 3rd place prize goes to Kemal Taskin with RadioTunes SDK for iOS – a radio streaming engine with support for the http and mms protocols. One of our judges wrote:

Compared with the other components this is one that provides the greatest value to a developer because of the complexity of interfacing with FFmpeg.

The 3rd place award is a package worth over 3,500$, including 500$ in cash.

Runner-up award:

Our runner-up award goes to Yaroslav Sivokhin with AsyncMVP – an asynchronous message-based module system base on an MVP template for the android platform. The judges really liked this one -

For me this project is a highlight, since although it seems to be in an early stage of development, turns Android application development on its head and introduces modern programming paradigms that have proven successful for years to the Android world. It’s a bold move into a completely new direction of Android app development, and I’m excited to see where this is going.

The runner-up award is a package worth close to 6,000$, including 1,000$ in cash.

Grand prize winner:

Our grand prize goes to Nick Lockwood with iCarousel. iCarousel is a simple, highly customizable, data-driven 3D carousel view for both iOS and Mac OS. Quoting one of the judges:

This is a really great submission – it provides a unique UI element that is highly customizable and looks really good. The code is great, very easy to understand and use, and aligns with many iOS design patterns.

The grand prize award is a huge package worth close to 11,500$, including 1,500$ in cash.

Thanks again to all the participants and the judges who helped us make this contest a success and our great sponsors who made this contest possible. Specifically, we would like to thank Amazon AWS, Tropo and Appsfire for their significant contributions and our other sponsors. We look forward to continuing this tradition and bring you great prizes for the best contributions of source-code.

This is a guest post by Ralph Chapin, a Binpress publisher. Ralph has developed project management software from 1977 to 2002 at a series of known companies and most recently at Artemis International Solutions Corporation. Lately, Ralph works mostly in Java, with his latest passion being multi-threading.

Java lists in real world applications

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After a long hiatus, Binpress contests are back – and this time our theme is mobile development. We are giving away 20k$ in cash and prizes from companies such as Amazon, Tropo, Appsfire, Github and many more!
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We just finished 3 hectic days at TechCrunch Disrupt – for those who are not in the know, TechCrunch Disrupt is one of the biggest startup events in the world. For 3 days we were pitching conference attendants about Binpress – investors, potential partners and users (we got to meet some of you in the flesh!).

It has been very tiring but worth it, we connected with a lot of people who hopefully will help us make Binpress bigger and better. Our belief that Binpress is going to be huge real soon has never been stronger – watch this space for further developments.
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After our best month yet in August, we are gearing up for some special goodness this coming month. Here are some of the main upcoming events we have planned:

Supercharged Mobile Development Contest

As we mentioned in our latest newsletter, we have a massive mobile development contest coming up. We had a programming contest when we first launched, which was a major success, and we are looking to start a tradition of contests to inject some competitive spirit and awesome prizes for our community.

The theme this time will be mobile development – with prizes going for the best submissions of a component for a mobile platform (iOS, Android, Windows Phone). We have some huge sponsors from the mobile development world providing relevant and worthy prizes.
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In our last post, Estimating The Potential Of Your Software Product we discussed ways to tell if your component idea is any good. In this post we want to go a step backwards and help you come up with good ideas for components you can sell on Binpress.

The first step should be to check out our idea suggestion section. This is where actual buyers from the Binpress community can request components they need and are willing to pay for. I used it to request a Tag cloud generator for PHP, which I bought as soon as it was ready after a quick revision request from it’s author, Andrius Virbicianskas. I will be posting a case study about this component in the near future, make sure to subscribe to be notified when it’s published.
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