Intermediate Contest Winner!

The Intermediate ColdFusion Contest is now over. We had 11 great entries. I want to thank everyone who submitted code. I know it was scary for you. But these entries were very helpful. Not only did you show people how to solve a problem, but your mistakes were useful in educating others. Thank you again. I also want to thank all my readers who commented - and did so in a respectful way. Ok, so enough with the that, let's just get to the winner(s).

First off - I have 2 prizes to give away to the runner ups. Adobe was very generous and gave me a copy of Studio to give away. I'm giving this to Tony Weeg for his entry. This had my favorite design, so I figure Studio was a good award.

The next prize is for Scott Johnson and his entry, which I thought was an awesome use of Flash Forms. His prize was provided by TeraTech. It is a 50% off ticket to CFUnited 06.

Last but not least - the grand prize - a copy of ColdFusion Standard (Thank you again Adobe!) is given to Behrang Noroozinia. His entry did a good job at validation, and I really liked his history management. To be honest, this is just a personal feeling, but his entry pleased me the most. I know folks are going to disagree with me, which is fine, but as I said, the main point of this contest was for us to all learn, which I think we did.

So - that's all for now. Start the critiquing of my decision below. Once again I want to give big thanks to everyone who participated, and to Macr... Adobe and TeraTech!

Comments (11) Dec 15, 2005 2:50 PM Views: 3496

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raymond, thank you for the award. i knew it wouldnt be for the code :) but that's ok. im a designer first, coder second.

anyway, congrats to all the winner's and congrats to all the entrants as well. it takes balls to put your code out there... and you had 'em.
# Posted By tony of the weeg clan | 12/15/05 3:30 PM
Congratulations to the grand prize winner Behrang. I have to admit, that history feature was pretty sweet.

Ray, once again thanks for taking the time to do this. I will take at least one thing away from this.......var scope. However I do have one question about it, do you var scope all variables that you are setting in the cfc. Or just the first time you set them or initialize them?

Once again thanks and congrats to all the winners!
# Posted By Jason | 12/15/05 3:47 PM
Var scoping is for a method/udf, not for a CFC per se. You var scope all variables created inside a method/udf. CF requires that you put var scope declarations in the beginning of the method/udf.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 12/15/05 8:09 PM
Thanks Ray, Jason, and everyone else.

It was very good for me to see others' entries and learning from them.

Hope to see everyone on another contest!
# Posted By Behrang | 12/16/05 3:59 AM
A big thank you should be sent to Ray for his high octane passion for the CF community.

Only God knows what he has up his sleeves for the advanced contest ;-)
# Posted By Adedeji Olowe | 12/16/05 5:39 AM
Ray, and other commenters/reviewers, thanks for your time and efford, I liked the contest and learned some new stuf and got some old stuf out of the dust!

Once again thanks and congrats to all the winners!
# Posted By Uipko | 12/16/05 6:27 AM
Congrats to Behrang!
Having attempted to enter the contest myself, and not had enough time to make the deadline, I have a lot of respect for all who participated.

His code was definitely concise and easy to follow, and I think I was able to learn from all the entries.

Thanks to Ray for giving everyone the opportunity to learn from these contests.

Also congrats to the runners up, great designs, coming from someone who can't design his way out of a paper bag.

Cheers
--Ali
# Posted By AA | 12/16/05 11:27 AM
Ali, my design is so bad, I can't even design a paper bag.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 12/16/05 11:31 AM
So when is the next contest? ;)
# Posted By Justin Alpino | 12/16/05 3:45 PM
I have two main ideas. I want to make a decision by Jan 1 of next year. I have a large set of prizes though. A seriously large set.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 12/16/05 3:52 PM
Come on lets get that advanced contest rollin, that's what I've been really waiting for.
# Posted By Matt | 12/16/05 7:05 PM
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