iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest

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iPhone App Wins Microsoft-Campus Programming Contest

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 1, 2009 @07:43AM from the cross-platform dept.

imamac writes "Startup Weekend was a 54-hour coding marathon held on Microsoft's campus last weekend. It was designed to encourage the use of MS programming technologies. However, the winner of the contest was an iPhone app: '"Awkward," whispered Startup Weekend organizer Clint Nelsen into the microphone upon announcing the top vote getter.'"

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Then there's the App Store by lostpuppy · 2009-09-01 08:09 · Score: 4, Insightful

They shouldn't be able to win until apple accepts the app for download.
Re:Apple apps vs. Micro$oft apps by erroneus · 2009-09-01 08:13 · Score: 4, Insightful

I always thought rule one was "Make 100% sure Bill Gates won't be showing a crowd a BSOD!" Not saying anything good about the competition might be rule #2.
Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free! by gilesjuk · 2009-09-01 08:17 · Score: 4, Insightful

XCode is free, only deploying to a real iPhone/iPod and selling in the app store costs money.
Why should anyone pay money to develop for WinMo? it's market share has shrunk and C++ isn't a nice to write in as Objective C.
Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free by Joehonkie · 2009-09-01 08:24 · Score: 4, Insightful

Xcode is free if you've got a Mac. Otherwise it costs 1 Macintosh worth of dollars.
Also held on Microsoft campus by SuperKendall · 2009-09-01 08:37 · Score: 5, Insightful

Granted it moves every year, but this year it was also held at the Microsoft campus - and the 14 other apps were all written for Windows Mobile.
Microsoft sponsored, at the Microsoft Campus, with mostly Microsoft apps - well, is it really so inaccurate to label it a Microsoft event even though technically it is not?
It's close enough to be funny anyway.

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Re:Startup Weekend NOT An MS Event by Schnapple · 2009-09-01 08:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

Startup Weekend in general isn't an MS program, only the BizSpark program that helped organize this particular event.
Well let's give them a little credit in not requiring everyone to only use MS products and develop for MS platforms.

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Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free by k2r · 2009-09-01 09:37 · Score: 4, Insightful

> You can develop directly on your windows mobile pda.
You can remove your appendix using a toothpick sticked into your left eye...
Re:Encourage use of MS tech by making the SDK free by sbeckstead · 2009-09-01 09:46 · Score: 3, Insightful

Nice research skills there MS fan boi, your own personal one is free others cost money! You can develop for the Windows Mobile platform for free, but not with any MS supported compilers. Minimum price for the ability to do it with supported compilers is whatever Visual Studio standard costs. Like $300.00 but you can get it free if you give up a weekday and attend the exact right launch party like I did.

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Re:The only way to win by PsyckBoy · 2009-09-01 13:58 · Score: 3, Insightful

You can also drive with your feet, that don't mean it's to be done
Re:The only way to win by Spyky · 2009-09-01 15:02 · Score: 4, Insightful

Yeah, sorry. I use Visual Studio every day and dabble in Eclipse and XCode. I prefer either of the later to Visual Studio. Visual Studio isn't a bad IDE, and it is certainly an appropriate choice for Windows only development, but saying it "light years ahead" of any other environment suggests you have never used anything else.