Because of the Code winners list
Over recent weeks Symbian Developer Network judges have been busily dissecting the entries to the “Because of the Code” competition. We would like to thank everyone who took the time to craft and submit code; we have been extremely impressed by the ingenuity, simplicity and sophistication of the entries.
There are 29 winners in total, but within those the judges agonised over identifying the ten most commendable submissions. And, of those, they identified one entry as exceptional. The judges’ favourite entry managed within 100 lines of code to ingeniously create a stand-alone game. It was:
- Petr Mazanec
Nine other submissions made the judges’ “Top 10” thanks to their combinations of usefulness, reusability, sophistication, innovation, simplicity, and correctness. They were, in no particular order:
- Sander Van Der Wal
- Jukka Silvennoinen
- Aymen Naim
- Bharat Hegde
- John Peter
- Jo Stitchbury
- Chris Davies
- Andreas Jakl
- Harri Salminen
A further 19 submissions were judged to be of sufficient quality to win a prize, these were, in no particular order:
- Alie Tan
- Ilkka Kortelainen
- Antti Juustila
- Marco Bellino
- Yunlong Gao
- Stefania Alborghetti
- Abirami K
- Lennart Engstrom
- Bharat Uppal
- Zeljko Milicevic
- Maximilian Odendahl
- Deepak Bane
- Li Jin
- Tero Soukko
- Avinash Rathod
- Wansong Bai
- Kasidit Yusuf
- Evgeny Eliseev
- Abhijit Kedia
Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks to the Symbian judges for their deliberations. Additional thanks to our external judge Phil Spencer, Director, Business Development of QuickOffice. Each winner will be contacted shortly via email to obtain address details so that prize packs can be sent out.
Phil Spencer biography
In his teens Phil wrote several freeware and shareware utilities for the Psion machines, the precursors to Symbian smarpthones, one of which would go on to find its place in the Top 10 best-selling Psion shareware of all time.
At the age of 17 he joined Symbian as a full-time employee, eventually heading up the Developer Community team – a dedicated team whose aim was to help developers on Symbian OS.
After contributing to many of the books published by Symbian Press and working on many of the initiatives still benefiting UIQ and S60 developers today, in January 2006 Phil moved to Quickoffice to manage the relationship between Quickoffice and Nokia.