By Don Burnett
I received a notice about a great contest for creating WPF financial applications. It sounds like a superb opportunity to show off your skills and win some great prizes, including a trip to New York City.... Everyone (by the way) have a great holiday season! I look forward (as you) to a bright and shiny and peaceful new year.. If you are a great WPF developer and really want to show off your skills this is another great opportunity to do so.
Here's the Press Release verbatim.. Dig in folks (You know you want to enter this one).. and thanks to Katie Meenan for the scoop on this.. I will be following this one closely...
Press Release:
MEDIA ALERT
Contact:
Metia Inc.
Sheryl Lee / Tinne Teugels
Tel: +1 917 320 6462/ 6458
Email: sheryl.lee@metia.com or tinne@metia.com
LAB49 LAUNCHES WPF IN FINANCE INNOVATION CONTEST
NEW YORK, December 1, 2007
What: Lab49, a consulting firm that specializes in building advanced technology applications for the financial services industry, is hosting a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Contest to find developers capable of delivering revolutionary applications for the financial services industry. Using Microsoft WPF, contest participants are challenged to develop applications showcasing new and original ways to present and interact with financial data. With WPF luminaries Josh Smith, Rob Relyea and Charles Petzold serving as judges, participants will be judged on the originality of their application, the quality of the code, performance, appearance, and overall functionality.
Why: WPF provides a next-generation development platform for graphical user interfaces that incorporates two and three dimensional graphics and animations, real-time data feeds and rich user interaction. As an early adopter of WPF, Lab49 has been prototyping and applying Microsoft’s WPF to financial applications since its introduction. It was the first to create a prototype trading system entirely in WPF and the first to launch a dedicated Microsoft WPF development practice for the financial services industry.
Where: Contestants can find additional information and register at: http://wpfcontest.lab49.com.
When: The deadline for early acceptance is February 14, 2008. Deadline for final submissions is February 29, 2008.
The three finalists will be contacted the first week in March. On March 12, 2008 the finalists will appear at the Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference where the winner will be announced and prizes will be presented.
Prizes: The contest will give out over $15,000 in prizes. The grand prize winner will receive two nights accommodation in New York City for Microsoft's Financial Services Developer Conference, where the winner will be announced and the winning application demonstrated. They will also take home the Ultimate WPF Developer's Machine sponsored by Alienware. Along with these prizes comes an acknowledgement in WindowsFS Magazine as a premier WPF Developer and a WPF t-shirt signed by the product team at Microsoft.
Additionally, the top three finalists will win an AMD ATI FireMV Workstation Graphics Accelerator, ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2007, Expression Studio, Visual Studio 2008, Xbox360 Elite with games, Vista Ultimate, and a Zune.
The first 25 applicants will receive a Corsair Flash Padlock, a subscription to WindowsFS Magazine, a ComponentOne t-shirt, three books from Microsoft press, and coupons for Xceed DataGrid for WPF.
For a detailed list go to http://wpfcontest.lab49.com
Who: Lab49 is a consulting firm that specializes in building applications for global financial institutions. Lab49's services range from design and deployment of next-generation trading systems to innovative risk aggregation and reporting systems to entirely new lines of business created through customer-facing technology.
Lab49, founded in 2002, serves leading global investments banks, hedge funds and mortgage institutions and has completed custom software engagements in equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, portfolio management, and real-time risk information delivery systems. Lab49 is the financial services division of Corpus, Inc., a global information technology solutions provider with numerous Fortune 50 clients in the Media & Entertainment, Telecommunications, and Banking & Financial Services verticals. Visit http://www.lab49.com and http://blog.lab49.com.
The contest is supported by, Microsoft, Alienware, AMD, ComponentOne, Corsair, FactSet, Windows in Financial Services, and Xceed.
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