Code Shogun » contest http://www.codeshogun.com/blog Mobile App Dev Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:45:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 My entry to win one of 10 Palm Pre at EverythingPre http://www.codeshogun.com/blog/2009/05/01/my-entry-to-win-one-of-10-palm-pre-at-everythingpre/ http://www.codeshogun.com/blog/2009/05/01/my-entry-to-win-one-of-10-palm-pre-at-everythingpre/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 02:49:15 +0000 Android Shogun http://www.codeshogun.com/blog/?p=122 EverythingPre is running a contest to give out one of 10 Palm Pres
Palm Pre contest

Here’s my photo entry:

G1 and iPhone, trying hard to be Palm Pre

G1 and iPhone, trying hard to be Palm Pre

Head over to their contest page here

]]> http://www.codeshogun.com/blog/2009/05/01/my-entry-to-win-one-of-10-palm-pre-at-everythingpre/feed/ 0 We won Honorable Mention w/ our iPhone app: Congress Bills in Sunlight Labs Apps for America Contest! http://www.codeshogun.com/blog/2009/04/20/we-won-honorable-mention-w-our-iphone-app-congress-bills-in-sunlight-labs-apps-for-america-contest/ http://www.codeshogun.com/blog/2009/04/20/we-won-honorable-mention-w-our-iphone-app-congress-bills-in-sunlight-labs-apps-for-america-contest/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:12 +0000 iPhone http://www.codeshogun.com/blog/?p=108 My iPhone app has just won Honorable Mentions from Sunlight Labs Apps For America Contest!
It’s out of a pool of 45 apps/websites ^_^
Here’s the winner announcement and list:
Winner List
Here is how they determined the winner. Looks like Congress Bills are ranked number 11th among all 45 entries. Pretty good considering we did it in our spare time comparing to some relatively large team working on their complete feature-rich websites. In that sense, we are happy about the results. Though I did have some suggestions for the next contest as I replied to their blog:
First, thanks for your all GREAT efforts in making this happen!

I do have suggestions in the next round to have a mobile-specific category. Our app, Congress Bills is an iPhone app. Since it was still during Apple’s review during the judging period, we offered Ad Hoc version of the app providing that judges send their iPhone UUIDs to us. But none of the judges did that. Might be due to the fact that they don’t have iPhones. But the truth is that they had to judge the app purely based on the video on vimeo, screenshots, and blog descriptions. Since the mobile device is a very different kind of media than website, there are unique features/advantages exhibited from them. It’s sad that the the app did not get a complete look (from our opinion) to be rated.

We are also having an Android version of the app running btw.

I would suggest that in the next contest, state whether you will have sufficient resources in judging mobile applications. Resources such as the availability of the mobile phones, and the models of them. Since the contest rules said any platform, I was actually thinking of building a robot that can etch laser on the wall showing the current activities of the congressmen. Oh well, that went a bit too far :)

Thanks again!

*It’s an open source iPhone app with LAMP backend. I will update more on details later…

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