Speaking of contests, Page Brooks and Dave Campbell have put together the Silverlight Control Builder Contest '08.
The prizes are amazing!
Check out what the 1st place winner gets:
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1-Year MSDN Premium Subscription
Practically every piece of software that Microsoft makes, available for download for 1-year.
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Your choice of one book from the entire O'Reilly catalog
Contributed by O'Reilly Media
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Choose from a huge selection of books in the O'Reilly catalog!
- Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX + WinForms + Telerik Reporting
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Telerik's most comprehensive component package.
- Telerik RadControls License for Silverlight (after release)
A new generation of UI controls for building Rich Interactive Applications.
- Xceed Upload for Silverlight with 1-year Subscription
Quickly and easily add upload capabilities to any Silverlight 2 Beta 2 application!
- $150 Amazon.com Gift Certificate
Second and third place prizes aren't too shabby either. ;)
Best of all, the submitted entries will be made available as open source and licensed to re-use.
Everybody wins!
Be sure to check out the rules.
[found via fellow AISer Pete Brown]
UPDATE: Developer Express has added the following prizes to the prize pool:
First - Dxperience Universal and $500 gift cert to something
Second - Dxperience Enterprise $250 gift cert to something
Third - CR/R $100 gift cert to something
Maybe I should enter the contest :)