Here I come Vegas!
From ITwire:
Microsoft Australia issued a week long coding challenge called “DevSta” looking fo the next generation of star developers. The grand prize includes airfare to Las Vegas, accommodation at the Venetian and tickets to the MIX09 Developer Conference in March next year, along with Visual Studio 2008, an Xbox 360 Elite console pack and a Samsung Omnia mobile phone. Runners up win various combinations of Visual Studio, Xbox 360 Elite packs and Wireless Entertainment Desktop 8000 keyboard and mouse combos.
Even with the lure of Microsoft riches it looks like the turn out is abysmal at best. In addition to lukewarm submissions, the contest was hacked by several members of a Turkish hacking group (from the article).
Even though the identities of Lamerdir and Ov3rlord aren’t clear, one thing is certain: Microsoft won’t be forgetting the embarrassment caused to their DevSta challenge. And unless the volume of submissions increase dramatically within the next 19 hours someone may be awarded an Xbox for doing nothing more than rewriting the Windows calculator as a .NET app.
.Read the whole article and view the screenshots here.
