The results have been tabulated and the winners are in! In Round II of the Last Call for Google I/O GWT contest, we asked contestants to implement a countdown clock in GWT similar to the official Google I/O countdown and received 48 entries from the US (regrettably, other countries were ineligible due to contest legal requirements).
The three judges from the GWT team were very impressed with the overall creativity and productivity of the participants, with one of the winning entries coming in only seven hours into the 24-hr contest. We selected the top 10 entries based on originality, visual appeal, and performance, and used the size of the compiled Javascript as a tie-breaker in close calls. Here are a few of the judges' favorites:
Nine of our ten contest winners provided a little info about themselves, so in no particular order, here they are. Congratulations to all!
Towers of Hanoi Christopher Troup Santa Monica, CA, USA / Halifax, NS, Canada GWT experience: 2 years Web Application Developer for SheepDogInc.ca. We use GWT in lots of ways ranging from full-scale GWT applications to progressive enhancement layers over traditional web applications.
Conveyer Belt Pierre Coirier Boston, MA, USA GWT experience: 3 years Lead front-end developer at Xplana, working on new student learning platform that bridges social networking and the traditional elements of education (http://www.xplana.com), creator of Mvp4g (MVP/Event bus framework for GWT)
Whac-a-Droid Brad Rydzewski Scottsdale, AZ, USA GWT experience: 3 years I'm a technology product manager at a large corporation during the day ... and enjoy caffeine-fueled nights working on my open source projects gwt-cal, gwt-touch and a gwt nintendo emulator
Breakout [Editor's note: move the mouse to play] Brian Reilly Cambridge, MA, USA GWT experience: 20 months Software developer for a biomedical research institution using GWT to develop applications to track DNA sequencing projects.
Morph Yi Yang Edmonton, AB, Canada GWT experience: 1.5 years Software developer for a local startup (CorpAv Inc.). We build awesome flight-scheduling software with awesome GWT technologies. We built our application entirely on pure GWT without using any third-party UI library (e.g. Ext-Gwt, SmartGwt) and managed to make it visually-appealing and user-friendly.
Word pixels John Ho Boston, MA, USA GWT experience: 2 years Web applications developer in the education software field. Our UI team primarily uses GWT for development.
Domino clock James Wendel Austin, TX, USA GWT experience: 2 years Software developer for a network security company. Have used GWT to create small utilities for personal websites. I started out as a Java UI developer and moved into web application development with GWT. Source code: http://code.google.com/p/oldclock/
Jumping for Droids [Editor's note: move your mouse over the developers to excite them by directing Androids their way] Tom Burke Scottsdale, AZ, USA GWT experience: 2 years Developer at a large Dilbert-style corporation in the finance industry. Been using GWT a little bit at work, and quite a lot on hobby projects.
Transitions Andy Keller Grand Rapids, MI, USA GWT experience: 2 years I'm the Director of Engineering at Traction Software, Inc. where we make collaboration software for business. Starting 2 years ago we re-implemented our entire interface using GWT and have shared some of our work in the gwt-traction project. We're huge fans of GWT. Source code: http://code.google.com/p/pulazzo-lastcall/
Floor physics [Editor's note: draw a line with the mouse under the clock and see the balls react] Chi Hoang USA GWT experience: 3 years I'm the Chief Architect at Solium Capital, a leading provider of stock plan administration technology and services. A rapidly increasing portion of the front end of our web based application is implemented in GWT.
Thanks again to all who participated!
