The winner is Marten De Jongh, a freelance photographer/designer from The Netherlands. You’ll see his design appear on my blog mid-january.
I’d like to thank everyone who participated. You guys did an fantastic job!
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A shopping trip to New York City, a few new phones for testing purposes and a new home cinema setup. That’s probably how I would spend $30.000 ;-) I really wish I could enter an app in the Flash Lite Developer Challenge and maybe win up to $30.000 but sadly I’m not allowed to enter one as an Adobe employee ;-).
Flash On The Beach is now just 2 weeks away and is also officially sold out. If you were too late in getting your tickets, this is your last chance to get one… for free!
Flash On The Beach is only 5 weeks and 5 days away and (as always) the community is really buzzing about the impressive speaker list that includes Flash-rockstars like Erik Natzke, Grant Skinner, Joa Ebert and Branden Hall to name a few. Like last year, FOTB is likely going to sell out a few weeks before the event and if you didn’t get your tickets yet, you might want to hurry and get them now. AND/OR you may want to take your chance and enter this competition.
Earlier today, ScaleNine.com launched the “Skin To Win Challenge” sponsored by EffectiveUI and Adobe.
And the winner is…
Well… Picking a winner in my blog design contest was far from easy. I had multiple favorites and so I asked a few friends to help me pick the winner. We eventually narrowed it down to two and then did a final voting round.
Blog design contest: Design my blog and win CS4 Master Collection!
Last week I realized that I am not 100% happy with the blog theme I recently installed. I like it, but it’s not quite exactly what I wanted. In all honesty, I don’t really like fiddling around with CSS and HTML. I hate having to navigate around different browser implementations and therefore never really got in to CSS and HTML. I also realize that there are people out there with much better design skills than me.
Last week I asked my Twitter followers if someone would be interested in designing/building a theme for my blog in exchange for CS4 Master Collection. I also asked if they would want to participate in a contest or if I should just pick one person based on previous work. The majority of the “votes” went to an open contest and so here we are…
What am I looking for?
A nice, fresh, clean and unique theme for my blog. You would provide both the PSD files and the WordPress theme files. The code has to be 100% valid and as SEO friendly as possible. The main content area must be at least 640 pixels wide. The theme would have at least 1 widget enabled sidebar on the right.
What’s in it for you?
Eternal fame ;-) and CS4 Master Collection (a €3300 value).
Moodboard
To get you started, I put together a little moodboard that should hopefully give you an idea of what I like. I like minimalistic and clean with nice typography.
I also like these designs (or parts of it):
http://www.fontshop.be/
http://www.engadget.com/
http://www.adobeusergroup.nl/
http://www.adobeusergroupxl.nl/
http://www.8020studio.com/
http://aigany.org
http://concentric-studio.com/work/
Deadline
To spare you from doing unnecessary work, I will judge this based on the static designs. You can add a link to the design in the comment section. The designs have to be in on December 18th 2009. I will pick and announce a winner on December 21st. The winner will then create the actual WordPress theme. The final theme has to be delivered on January 15th 2010. Don’t forget: delivering the WordPress theme is part of this contest! The contest is open to anyone anywhere.
More questions?
If you have more questions, feel free to leave a comment or use the “Get in touch” form.
Looking forward to seeing your designs!
Midsummer giveaway winners
2 weeks ago, I opened up the “Future of Flash Midsummer Giveaway”. I asked you guys to look in to your crystal balls and tell us where you see the Flash Platform in 5, 10 or even 20 years from now. I must say that some of you have a very vivid imagination ;-)
Steven Delrue
Michael C
Skawian
To be totally fair, I asked my colleagues Enrique Duvos and Andrew Shorten to pick the winners. Congrats!
Win a ticket for FOTB:
Wins a copy of Flex Builder:
And you know what… I’m in a good mood today so I’m going to send a cool T-shirt and Flex book to everyone who submitted an entry! ;-)
All winners will receive an email from me.
The Future of Flash Midsummer Giveaway: Win a ticket for FOTB and more!
I have two full conference tickets for Flash On The Beach in Brighton (worth £359 each), one copy of Flex Builder 3 Professional, a bunch of Flex books, t-shirts and other goodies and I’m giving it all away!
How do you win? Easy! Take out your crystal ball and take a look in to the future of the Flash Platform. Where do you see the Flash Platform 5, 10 or 20 years from now? What would you add or change to the Flash Platform?
Be creative! You can use both the power of words and the power of pixels. If you want to create mockup of Flash CS10 or Flash Builder 10, then please do so. If you are better with words, feel free to type away. Leave a comment with a link to your image or just post your thoughts. Please enter your real name and email address.
Winners will be picked based on creativity, originality and/or interesting ideas. Winners will be announced on Monday, August 17th 2009 on this blog. Deadline: Sunday, August 16th, 2009 00:00GMT
Looking forward to hear your thoughts and ideas!
Flash Lite Developer Challenge winners announced. 7 out of 8 from Europe!
I was just looking at the winners of the Flash Lite Developer Challenge and was very happy to see that 7 out of 8 winners are European! Congratulations to all winners and obviously also to everyone who submitted an application! Now if only I could find the time to finish my Flash Lite Twitter client… but it’s coming. I promise.
Infotainment Winner & Grand Prize Winner:
Flash Cell Ltd (UK)
MicroFilm is an application that allows you to watch the latest Cinema and DVD film trailers on a S60 device. The application is built around a favourites based community where members can discover new films and participate in a social community. Watch the latest film releases, book tickets, rent and buy DVD’s – Find out what your friends are watching – Discover like minded neighbours – Browse through films using a tag cloud interface – Use genres and user generated tags to sort through films.
Lifestyle Category Winner:
Ribot (UK)
Little Spender is a simple, fun spender tracker. The aim is to enable even the most casual of Little Spenders to see where exactly their hard-earned cash goes every month. Along with a bit of fun and simplicity along the way, they’ll hopefully save a little money too.
Game Category Winner:
BlueskyNorth (UK)
Ficklebox is a fast moving puzzle fun as you try to match up chains or groups of colored blox for big scores, but be careful as these blox have a mind of their own! They can help you or harm you as you race to complete stages against the clock.
Description: Block matching puzzle with extra ‘flash enabled’ personality as the Blox come to life.Make chains or groups of matching colored blox to score points.
Social Networking Category Winner:
Ian Moreira de Andrade (Brazil)
Mr. Postman, the Twitter reader and publisher while on the go. Based on a timeline concept, Mr. Postman won’t let you miss a tweet: access the most important features with a single click, keep up with your friends, celebs or news live updates and send yours. No mess. No crowded information.
Sports Category Winner:
Little Big Ideas (Denmark)
GolfBox is a golfers management app. Book tee-times, invite friends to play, view leaderboards, track handicap, read golf news and much more. Featuring both interstitial apps and traditional banner ads. GolfBox is a mobile extension to the website that enable you to search available teetimes and book tee times on all Danish golf courses.
Innovation Award Winner:
Mobile Radicals (U.K.)
Big Game Huntr, is a location-based hunting game populated by user generated content based around communities of players. The premise of the game is to allow users to generate their own communities of hunts and promote social networking.
People’s Choice:
IKS Mobile (Poland)
Cubic Republic, somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere beyond the clouds live funky, little, cubic creatures. Take part in entertaining challenges on the levitating land pieces. Engage in the community, play multiplayer matches and have fun! Cubic Republic is a place of original & highly interactive quests. Intuitive gameplay makes it easy to grasp & simple to play. Multiplayer gaming on different devices let you engage anytime, anywhere. Prepare for great cross-platform entertainment!
Flash Lite Developer Challenge deadline is getting closer
A shopping trip to New York City, a few new phones for testing purposes and a new home cinema setup. That’s probably how I would spend $30.000 ;-) I really wish I could enter an app in the Flash Lite Developer Challenge and maybe win up to $30.000 but sadly I’m not allowed to enter one as an Adobe employee ;-).
However, it’s not too late to enter your mobile Flash application. You have until May 31st to submit it on http://flashlitedeveloperchallenge.com.
And the winners are…
As you probably know by now, Flash On The Beach is in just 1 week time and is completely sold out. Luckily we were able to get a hold of the last tickets and asked you to be creative with the “beach” theme and the AIR, Flash, Flex, ColdFusion, Adobe logos. Here are the winners who all get a full conference pass to Flash On The Beach in Brighton. I’m sure you’ll agree that these clearly are winners. Congrats to all of them and see you in Brighton!
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FOTB is sold out! Get the last tickets here… for free!
Flash On The Beach is now just 2 weeks away and is also officially sold out. If you were too late in getting your tickets, this is your last chance to get one… for free!
The only thing you have to do is get a little creative! A couple of weeks ago, Adobe’s European platform evangelist team launched this contest. Although the deadline was officially last week, we want to give you guys a little bit more time to get creative and win your ticket for FOTB especially since it’s now sold out and these are the last available tickets out there. So we’re extending the deadline until Wednesday September 17, 1pm CET. That same afternoon we’ll announce the winners.
I got to tell you that the competition is already pretty strong. So get creative and see you at Flash On The Beach!
Photoshop your way to Flash On The Beach
Flash On The Beach is only 5 weeks and 5 days away and (as always) the community is really buzzing about the impressive speaker list that includes Flash-rockstars like Erik Natzke, Grant Skinner, Joa Ebert and Branden Hall to name a few. Like last year, FOTB is likely going to sell out a few weeks before the event and if you didn’t get your tickets yet, you might want to hurry and get them now. AND/OR you may want to take your chance and enter this competition.
The European platform evangelism team is giving away 6 (in total) conference passes (a £499/€633 value) to Flash On The Beach 08. The only thing you have to do is get creative! Photograph or Photoshop yourself on the beach showing off your love for Flash, Flex, AIR, ColdFusion, … Upload your creation here before September 8, 2008 and each of us will pick our favorite entry. That person wins a full pass to Flash On The Beach 08. We will announce the winners on our blogs on September 12th! (more…)
Create a skin to win a ticket to MAX, a MacBook Air and a bundle of software
Earlier today, ScaleNine.com launched the “Skin To Win Challenge” sponsored by EffectiveUI and Adobe.
Juan Sanchez‘ website ScaleNine.com has an impressive collection of CSS skins for Flex applications. With this contest, he’s looking for new additions to this collection and the top three entries win some really cool prizes including a MacBook Air (with SSD!), tickets to MAX, CS3 Master Collection and Flex Builder.
The contest website has everything you need to get started, even if you’re completely new to Flex skinning! Andrew Shorten created a couple of tutorial videos to help you on your way to create your winning Flex skin!
I’m really looking forward to see the skins that come out of this contest. You have until October 10th to submit your entry so you better start now!
