Prizes allocations are taking a little bit longer than anticipated. It turns out that allocating prizes fairly according to preference, while making sure everyone gets more than zero prizes is tough. And unfortunately I don’t have many cycles to spare. Next time we’ll automate the entire process. But for now please bear with me.
Prizes for Ironcoder V are being allocated. Contestants should have received an email from me with the details. If you took part in Ironcoder V and did not receive an email please contact me at chairman at ironcoder _dot org.
Congratulations winners.
The Winner of Ironcoder V is Ben Gottlieb with his “WikiPath” Wikipedia screensaver. This screen saver followed random paths through Wikipedia, display each page in a tile on the screen. The code was really well written with some neat tricks that kept the code simple.
Runners Up:
Blurred Life – Adam Leonard A great game/screensaver combo. Try and guess if a blurred image downloaded from Flickr is about life or not-life.
CrepuscularLife – Josh Freeman A really fast and energetic Conway’s Game of Life screensaver.
LifeLike – Ian Gowen Another Conway Game of Life screensaver, used a really cool colour technique to add dynamic colour to cellular automatons.
Pixure – Joseph Wardell A strange screensaver that used genetic algorithsm to breed pixels.
Other notable entries:
Best Non-Screensaver: Viva – Daniel Jalkut
Most Complex Quartz Composer: Tree of Life – Chris Parrish
Only Non-Objective-C Entry: Life Saver – Chris Liscio
Most Amusing Source Code: S#!t Happens – Jim Turner & Kristie Turner
We’ve had 30 entries for Ironcoder V. That’s a fantastic turn out, the best yet. So far I’ve looked at 16 entries, and I’m going to stop there and finish the rest on Monday 2nd April. I’ll be in #macsb at 5PM CST on Monday to judge the remaining 14. Wish me luck. It isn’t going to be easy picking a winner.
All entries are available in a single disk image at: Ironcoder_5.dmg (15MB). And once again thanks to everyone who has taken part.
That’s it. Time’s up. Put down your text editors. Stop your compilers. Remind your family that you’re still alive.
All the entries have been copied to the test machine. If you haven’t uploaded already and have a really really good excuse why you missed the ever so important deadline please email the chairman.
I’ll be judging entries starting immediately, but it will take some time to get organised. All contestants will be informed by email (you did include your email address in your Readme) how their entry did. Prizes will be sorted out in the following week.
Join the live fun in the #macsb channel.
Just a quick note for anyone looking for the submissions page, the URL has been up for a day or two but has been hard to find. Submit here: