January 24 - February 24

Programming Contest

Contest sponsors and media partners

Most of your prizes were donated by our amazing sponsors, and we heartily thank them.

Sponsors

  • ConduitConduit

    is the world’s largest network of browser app publishers. The Conduit Network empowers publishers – from global brands to independent developers – to create, exchange and distribute apps. Using the Conduit Platform, web developers can easily create their own installable, cross-browser applications (for IE, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome). Developers can distribute their apps to their existing user base and via the Conduit Network can reach over 260,000 publishers and 200 million active monthly users, offering vast content delivery and monetization options. Create your own browser app or See our JavaScript API

  • Microsoft

    The Microsoft Web Platform supports web applications and solutions built on Windows. With the Windows Web Application Gallery the Web Hosting Gallery and new tools like WebMatrix, web developers can choose from numerous applications and solutions that run well on Windows. In addition, web developers can benefit from the many free tools, online forums, partners, and other communities that are committed to supporting web applications on Windows and IIS. Microsoft is committed to helping developers, regardless of language preference, be successful. Learn more about the Microsoft Web Platform at http://microsoft.com/web

  • MicrosoftTropo

    makes it easy to add voice, instant messaging and text messages to applications. Use our simple API and the web development skills you already know to build powerful communications applications. Create a conference call with one line of Ruby. Answer the phone with a PHP function. Phone calls, speech recognition, and SMS with no telephony hardware, software, or special knowledge needed. Tropo's cloud API is 100% free for developers around the world. Create your first application in less than 10 minutes at http://tropo.com/.

  • GoogleGoogle

    Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps and YouTube. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google’s highly integrated online advertising platforms AdWords and AdSense. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing them with a rich source of information.

  • Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services (AWS)

    provides a reliable, easy-to-scale, low-cost computing platform “in the cloud.” Companies of all sizes, from all around the globe use AWS to power their web sites, applications, and workflows – everything from mobile apps and social gaming to dev/test environments, disaster recovery, and high performance computing. http://aws.amazon.com

  • entpEntp

    was created with the idea “if you get enough smart people in the room, anything is possible.” We are experts at architecting, designing, and implementing web applications using Ruby, Ruby on Rails™, and Javascript. We have core members of the Rails and Prototype teams on board and are responsible for some of the most distributed open source code in the world.

  • Mediatemple(mt) Media Temple

    , Inc. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Since 1998, the company has provided businesses around the world with reliable, professional-class services to host websites, email, business applications, and other rich Internet content.

  • ClicktaleClicktale

    is the industry leader in Customer Experience Analytics (CEA), providing businesses with revolutionary insights into their customers’ online behavior. ClickTale tracks every mouse move, click and scroll, creating playable videos of customers’ entire browsing sessions as well as powerful visual heatmaps and behavioral reports.

  • FusionadsFusionads

    passion is to serve ads that are downright gorgeous,accepting only relevant advertisers of the highest calibre.We choose from among cream-of-the-crop publisherswho exclusively show only a single ad per page.

  • websolrWebsolr

    provides the easiest way for you to make the most of advanced full-text search powered by Apache Solr. You focus on building awesome functionality with features like geospatial search, faceted browsing, and flexible language parsing. We’ll take care of all the hassle of hosting, configuring, monitoring and performance-tuning the servers.

  • githubGitHub

    is version control for software development and so much more. Whether it's a weekend side project, your favorite open source library, a startup destined for glory, or your company's app, GitHub helps everyone work together better by providing tools for easier collaboration and more visibility. Catch up on what happened while you were out of the office or ask for help on a tricky chunk of code by issuing a Pull Request, all through a gorgeous web interface that integrates with your favorite tools. Check it out — open source is free!

  • LinodeLinode

    offers customizable, high performance Linux virtual servers for as little as $19.95 per month. Using the web-based Linode Manager, you can deploy multiple Linux distributions, manage your virtual disk images, control reverse DNS, utilize free managed DNS, and access your Linode out of band with remote console access. Linode cloning, a private back-end network, IP failover, and five datacenters in the US and Europe connected to multiple Tier 1 providers enable you to scale your deployment quickly, easily, and effectively, with support offered via a ticketing system and community forums. For more information, please contact service@linode.com or stop by our community IRC channel #linode on OFTC.

  • TogglToggl

    is an online time tracking application. It is designed for effortless time tracking and enables you to easily capture fragmented worktime. Switching a task or creating a new one is as simple as one mouseclick. Toggl is built for collaboration. You can use it as a solo freelancer or with a team. Toggl is available everywhere: on the website, on your desktop, in your iPhone or Android device.

  • DynDNSDynDNS

    provides home and small businesses users domain, email, and Internet infrastructure services. Serving more than three million home and small business users a suite of DNS, email, domain registration and virtual servers since 1998.

  • InfluadsInfluads

    is an Advertising Network focusing on delivering a minimalist ad presence that reaches highly relevant audiences within different topics and target audiences. They only allow one ad per page and carefully select advertisers and publishers towards building unique contexts of relevancy. Their member sites provide valuable content to relevant audiences like Web Developers, Designers, Entrepreneurs and other Web Professionals.

  • O'ReillyO'reilly

    Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

  • PayPalPayPal

    is the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online. The service allows members to send money without sharing financial information, with the flexibility to pay using their account balances, bank accounts, credit cards or promotional financing. With more than 87 million active accounts in 190 markets and 24 currencies around the world, PayPal enables global ecommerce. PayPal is an eBay company and is made up of three leading online payment services: the PayPal global payment service, the Payflow Gateway and Bill Me Later. The company's open payment platform, PayPal X, allows developers to build innovative payment applications on multiple platforms and devices. More information about the company can be found at PayPal.com.

  • August InteractiveAugust Interactive

    is a full service website design and development agency based in Baltimore, MD. Our core expertise include user experience and user interface design, HTML/CSS and PHP programming; with a special focus on Drupal CMS applications. Recent clients include Audi Polo Team, Johns Hopkins University and Sotheby's

  • cloudkickCloudkick

    provides award-winning cloud server monitoring and management tools, built from the ground up to support modern APIs and the elastic nature of the cloud. From performance monitoring and fault detection to trend visualization and graphing, the tools work across your entire cloud computing infrastructure, no matter what cloud provider you’re on.

  • uTestuTest

    is the world's largest marketplace for software testing services. We provide functional, usability and load testing services through a community of 33,000+ professional software testers from more than 170 countries around the globe. More than a thousand companies – from web startups to global software leaders – have signed up for the uTest marketplace to get their web, mobile, gaming and desktop applications tested.

  • DonanzaDonanza

    enables you as a software programmer to find the best freelance programming projects available on the web. You can use DoNaza to search for projects which match your expertise in any language, framework or platform. All you have to do is enter your specific skills into the DoNanza search engine, select the best project for you and start earning money.

  • atechmediaatechmedia

    is a UK-based software development company with a growing range of SaaS products. Codebase, our flagship service, is a software project management tool with Git, Mercurial & Subversion code hosting built-in. In addition to Codebase, we've recently launched Deploy & Deliver which help with deployments & e-mail delivery respectively.

  • RoninappRonin

    is online invoicing with style. It has all the features you need and none that you don't. Invoicing, estimates, client management, staff, contractors, and time tracking all in one easily accessible web application.

  • ZendZend

    Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company, is the leading provider of products and services for developing, deploying and managing business-critical PHP applications on-premise and in the cloud. PHP runs 35 percent of the world’s Web sites and has quickly become the most popular language for building dynamic Web applications. Deployed at more than 30,000 companies worldwide, the Zend family of products delivers a comprehensive solution for supporting the entire lifecycle of PHP applications. Zend is headquartered in Cupertino, California. Learn more at http://www.zend.com.

  • SendgridSendgrid

    On average 20% of legitimate email never reaches the inbox. SendGrid solves this problem by replacing your outbound email infrastructure. Sign up now to get improved deliverability, actionable email metrics, and APIs - all in a completely scalable solution.

  • ZencoderZencoder

    is a cloud-based video encoding service featuring extremely fast encoding, high scalability and industry leading input file compatibility. Encode millions of videos or just a few and pay only for what you use.

  • Blonde2.0Blonde 2.0

    was founded in 2006, back when social media was still in its diapers. Blonde 2.0's mission then and now is to help brands understand how to use social media tools (social networks, the blogosphere, social software, etc) effectively in order to carry their messages to their target audience and engage with consumers while creating positive brand awareness. We have years of experience in helping brands lead social media marketing campaigns to success.

  • WroxWrox

    publishes books written by programmers, for programmers on topics from Apple app dev to Xen virtualization, and many topics in between. Find the right book for your application programming or web development needs at Wrox.com.

  • TypekitTypekit

    Built around web standards, Typekit gives designers and developers a subscription-based library of hosted, high-quality fonts to use on their websites. Typekit have over 250,000 customers including some of the largest sites on the web today: The New York Times, Conde Nast, IGN, Twitter, and many others. Typekit is also actively integrating Typekit into hosted platforms—such as WordPress, TypePad, and Posterous — so that anyone with a website can use real fonts.

  • AtlassianAtlassian's

    suite of product management and product development tools help teams of all sizes to manage most every aspect of a product's lifecycle, from initial concept to launch. Learn more at http://www.atlassian.com