ColdFusion Builder Contest

ColdFusion Builder FTW! Today I'm happy to announce the beginning of a new contest. This contest specifically targets Adobe's new ColdFusion IDE, ColdFusion Builder. The contest officially begins March 22nd and runs for 30 days. Submissions will be judged starting May 1st. As before, Adobe is stepping up to provide some nice prizes (details below). This contest will be a bit different than the previous "Best of ColdFusion 9" contest. Since we are talking about a desktop program as opposed to a web page, we are going to be a bit more loose in what types of submissions will be accepted. The main theme of this contest is "Educate and Expand". Entries should either help people introduce ColdFusion Builder to their day to day development or help them expand the basic functionalities of the IDE itself. Therefore we will be having two "Grand Prize" winners - one for a "Educate" track and one for an "Extend" category. Entries could be videos or tutorials for the user unfamiliar with the Eclipse platform. Entries could be extensions that add functionality you think is missing from the IDE today. Anything that helps people either learn or make use of ColdFusion Builder is fair game.

Judging will (probably :) be a multi-user affair as before with myself serving as the final decision maker.

Prizes will include a copy of ColdFusion 9 Standard and ColdFusion Builder for the best entry in both the Educate and Extend category. Runner ups (4, 2 for each track) will each get a free copy of ColdFusion Builder. As before, Adobe will also try to give a little something to all of the entrants.

Submission Guidelines:

Submissions should be for new content.
Submissions should remain offline until after the contest. Obviously you own what you create, but while the contest is being judged, we ask that you keep your submission offline until it is officially judged. At that point it will be available for download from my blog and you can share it on your blog/web site/etc as well.
In terms of submissions that are ColdFusion Builder extensions, if your code does not out of the box, the judges will make their best effort to get it to work correctly, but you are expected to test well before submitting.

Good luck!

CFBuilder Contest: Squeezer (May 4, 2010)

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Phillip Senn said on 03-22-2010 at 9:02 AM #
	You mean like the "You suck at Photoshop" series? http://www.mydamnchannel.com/You_Suck_at_Photoshop...

Raymond Camden said on 03-22-2010 at 9:06 AM #
	I had no idea. That... was awesome.

Ben Nadel said on 03-25-2010 at 12:08 PM #
	This is exciting. After the CFUG meeting this week, I'm totally psyched to come up with something snazzy :) Now, the hamsters in my head just need to come up with something.

charlie arehart said on 04-07-2010 at 10:37 PM #

Hey Ray, am I missing it, but do you mention here how to post a submission? Should they submit them via your contact form (link in the top nav bar)? By email, if they know your address?

Also, when you say "new" content, do you want to elaborate? New as in, it can't be something that was created and posted online before the opening date of the contest?

If you decide to open that up, would you also be ok with people submitting things they find that are created by others (for the creator to be nominated, in effect)?

Raymond Camden said on 04-07-2010 at 11:12 PM #

I did not say - and thank you for bringing it up. I should have. Folks can email me at ray at camdenfamily dot com.

New - Yes, I do not want something that is already public. I'm willing to bend a tiny bit on that, like, something you may have shown coworkers, but in general, it should be new to the public.

Nominations: Um... I don't know. :) It seems a bit weird. If you see something that is cool, I'd probably suggest you urge them to submit it themselves. I'm not saying no, just... mostly no. :)

Let me know if any of this doesn't make sense.

Charlie Arehart said on 04-08-2010 at 11:24 AM #
	OK, thanks for clarifying.

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