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Important Ironcoder 7 is now a week long. Ironcoder starts a week earlier on Friday 9th November and finishes on Sunday 18th November. That’s 9 full days of Ironcoding.

As if 216 hours of solid coding isn’t its own reward, Ironcoder 7 has an awesome prize for the winner:

First prize is an 8GB iPod Touch kindly donated to the cause by Brain Murmurs the makers of mentat: Project Management Rebooted

Ironcoder 7 will feature community based prize voting, but with the twist that only developers who submit an entry to the contest will be able to vote. The API and theme will be announced at 7PM CST on Friday 9th November. <spoiler>You should expect the API to be new to Leopard</spoiler>

We’re now updating a page with the list of prizes and sponsors of Ironcoder 5. The total value of the prizes is now over $1100. A great thanks to all our current and previous sponsors.

Visit the page (and perhaps sponsor Ironcoder yourself) here: http://ironcoder.org/blog/sponsors/

Mark your calendars, warm up your compilers, stock up on bouncy bubbly beverages…

The next semi-regular installment of the #macsb Ironcoder contest will start at 5PM central time on Friday, March 30th running through to Sunday, April 1st.

We’ll be hosting the contest on ironcoder.org and as always live commentary/support will be hosted on the #macsb channel of freenode.net.

Once again we’re asking software authors for to donate licenses of their software as prizes for the winners.

Hi Iron Coders,

Thanks to Schwatoo and lexx, we now have a spiffy Upload Form. Make sure your entry has completed uploading before the deadline - 5 pm Central time on Sunday.

Please please please include a README file that includes your name, anything interesting or spectacular about your entry, as well as any install or uninstall instructions or special requirements.

The API and Theme this time around is:

Core Image + Space

Deadline: 5pm Central Time Sunday October 29. We’ll post to ironcoder.org some deatils on uploading your submissions.

Mac OS X 10.4.X - sorry no Leopard this time.

Space can be office, desk, disk, trading, hyper, outer, inner, or whatever kind of space you can think of.

You can pick up the sample program, Unicorn Space, uses a unicorn picture for ” ” in a string, moving a bump distortion over the image randomly. Really silly and pointless.

Be sure to check out the samples incldued with Xcode 2.3 - They live in the Quartz directory of /Developer/Examples. The Fun House sample is useful for figuring out what the parameters to specific CI filters actually do.

Some useful links:

• Developing with Core Image
• Introduction to Core Image Programming Guide
• Core Image Filter Reference
• Core Image Reference Collection

Using Quartz Composer is OK, but you must have at least one Objective-C source file with at least one CI-prefixed call. This is a coder’s competition, after all. The prohibition against running in someone else’s address space is lifted, so if you wanted to write some kind of QC plugin, go ahead.

Woot! Iron Coder 4 is this weekend! Like last time, it will start on Friday, 5pm Central US time. The API and theme will be posted here then. The submission deadline is 5pm Central time on Sunday, and then live judging will happen in the #macsb IRC channel. The rules are pretty much unchanged from last time. And remember, if you win, you get to run IronCoder 5 in the Winter.

We have prizes this time around again, such as a bunch of cool stuff from the fine folks at Griffin Technology, including Two (yes two!) RadioSharks, an AirClick USB, PowerMate, and an iTrip Auto. I’m pimping my own warez by providing an autographed copy of Advanced Mac OS X Programming for the winner, as well as some Learn Objective C on the Macintosh ebooks from Spiderworks. The groovy folks at Zutubi have provided a Pulse Standard Edition license.

Also, Daniel Jalkut is contributing The Red Sweater Bundle, one each of FlexTime, FastScripts, and Clarion. And last Iron Coder judge Gus Mueller of Flying Meat fame is throwing in a copy of VoodooPad, FlySketch, and FlyGesture.

Hope to see you on Friday.

In addition to the fame of being a winner, and getting to judge IronCoder 5, the winner of IronCoder 4 will receive a copy of Advanced Mac OS X Programming, signed by myself and Aaron Hillegass.

If anyone else would like to sponsor IronCoder 4, please drop schwatoo a line (schwa at this.domain)

Posted by Mark Dalrymple

Whoa. Wolf “Jonathan” Rentzsch is putting on a Really Cool Mac Developer Conference. Everyone should go. That’s the same week we scheduled for the next IronCoder. If everyone goes to C4, they can’t work on their IronCoder entry. Bummer. Hence therefore ergo, we’re moving IronCoder ahead a week: October 27 through the 29th. Time to put on your Halloween costumes and hack the weekend away.

Oh, and we’ve got some prizes already. Stay tuned.

The date has been set, so make sure to mark it on your calendars.

The next #macsb IronCoder contest will be October 20-22, and we’ll be doing things a lot like last time since it seemed to work out well. You’ll get the API and the theme at the same time, giving you a full 48 hours to work on your Wicked Cool Stuff(tm). The kick-off is 5pm Central Time in the US on Friday night, and real-time judging in #macsb will start at 5pm Central Time on Sunday night. (so be sure to have your entries uploaded before then.)

Hopefully we’ll have some prizes again this go-around. If you produce some nifty hardware, software, or web services, and want to sponsor the next IronCoder, please drop schwatoo a line ( at schwa at this domain) - he’ll be coordinating the prizes.

Woot!