Ironcoder winners list and what I would have changed.
Oh geeze, it’s all over. And congrats to Mark Dalrymple for coming in first place! He’s our new Ironcoder!
Here’s the order the folks came in, and the apps they wrote: 1. Race Against Time, by Mark Dalrymple 2. TimeLapse, by Andy Kim 3. Zoner, by John Labovitz 4. What Have You Done for Me Lately? by Daniel Jalkut 5. Usage, by Grayson Hansard 6. Lcarstime, by Jason Terhorst 7. Falling Sand, by Jonathan Wight 8. WhereDidTheTimeGo, by August Fackler 9. Fuzzy Freddy, by Lucas Eckels 10. Relativity, by Philip Taff 11. SunMoonDial, by Chris Liscio 12. No time, by Duncan Wilcox 13. TopQuartz, by Chip Coons 14. MouseLapse, by Chris Parrish 15. DaliClock, by Kevin Ballard 16. Iron Dazzle, by Tom Harrington 17. Process Timer, by Peter Hosey 18. Time RSS Reader, by Jin Kim 19. BlindDogClock, by Jeff Szuhay 20. TapDance, by Mike Ash 21. RedWire, by Michael Buckley 22. TDWatch, by Geoff Pado
And honorable mention to Kitwana Akil for IC_Digital Clock (he entered it after the deadline).
And in case you are wondering what the top three prize picks were- Mark chose a subscription to Daring Fireball, Andy Kim chose the PowerMate, and Daniel Jalkut chose the RadioShark. (John Labovitz wasn’t around on #macsb when we were handing out the prizes, but he still gets something; he just needs to contact me first).
There are still some prizes to give out to folks who couldn’t make the awards ceremony (more like awards madhouse if you ask me). So if that’s you, send a message to the judge (gus@flyingmeat.com) and we’ll get ya something.
Wow, that was a lot of entries to judge. I’m pooped.
So there’s one thing I would have done differently in hindsight- and that’s how the ranking was done. Rather than have everyone ranked down to the last place, I’d rather give the picks of the prizes to the top 4 or 5 and then for everyone else have a raffle to determine who gets the next pick. That way I don’t have to determine who comes in last place. It was a little awkward judging people that I chat with every day and other folks I even go out to grab a beer with in meat space (hi Chris!).
So that’s a bit of advice I pass on to our next judge, Mark D. He gets to make the rules next time around!
July 23rd, 2006 at 11:11 pm
IMHO DaliClock should have won, that thing is so much cooler than the rest.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:03 am
You did a great job, Gus. Thanks again. I really liked the amount of detail you put into the judging process, but I think you’re right that it’s awkward to rank it down to the last person.
I liked the way rentzsch came up with “Best Whatever” type assessments, which you sort of did in the comments section of your points rundown.
Perhaps Mark will choose to compromise by adopting a less granular ranking system (like A, B, C school grades) for the sections. That way people would still get some feedback on how they met the various criteria, but wouldn’t be as inclined to grade-grub for a single point here and there
July 24th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Hopefully, we can get a wider array of entries (so that we don’t have several entries that are almost the same) in the next contest. Several of the entries this time were process monitors - pie charts, bar graph, etc.
July 26th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
So how does one access #macsb, anyhoo?
July 27th, 2006 at 6:15 am
#macsb is an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net - find an IRC client (http://colloquy.info/ isn’t too bad) and join the channel.