Wow Ironcoder 2 had a grand total of 23 entries. The previous two contests had a total of 11. All off the entries were great (well ok, one was only four lines of code, but what four lines they were!).
I think we can definitely consider Ironcoder 2 a success.
Thanks to everyone who entered, there were definitely some great entries – a few of which might make good products in their own rights.
A big thanks to the plethora of sponsors. I doubt the contest would have been such as a success without the lure of booty.
And Ironcoder Gus Mueller deserves the biggest thanks for the astounding effort he put in to make Ironcoder 2 such a success. Gus single-handledly rounded up the sponsors, picked an awesome theme and API and then spent several hours judging the entries and organising the awards.
Scoring was extremely close but the overall winner of Ironcoder was Mark Dalyrmple. I’m looking forwarding to finding out what API and theme Mark chooses for the next contest in a few months time.
My Ironcoder entry was a Falling Sand inspired toy called Sands of Time. I’ll be posting more about this later. Source code is available from my subversion repository.