Google Gadget Contest

Do you have what it takes to create a great Google Desktop Gadget? Have you been waiting for some motivation to prove it? Well, good news — the Google Desktop Gadget Contest is here to spur you into brilliant action.
Key Dates
Contest Ends – July 31, 2006 (all submissions must be received by this date)
Winners Announced [...]

Solved the TopCoder problem with least non-zero success rate

Background
Have anyone heard of PrePrime? Prime number is a number that is divisible by 1 and itself (it has 2 divisiors). PrePrime has 4 divisiors. For example, the 1st preprime is 6 (1, 2, 3 & 6). The numbers 6, 8, 11, 14 … are a sequence of PrePrimes.
The Problem
Find the nth preprime. Sounds simple, [...]

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/games/default.mspx

I never heard about this before. Yeah, there is a scripting competition going on now. Australia is not looking good in stats somewhere down under.

Imagine Cup 2006

There is a new competition going on now, called Imagine Cup 2006. Ohhh, i still haven’t started working on TopCoder Intel competition yet. The following is an extract of what is available in the competition.
We are working with Universities to integrate the Imagine Cup Software Design Invitational into course work for Semester 1 2006. [...]

Intel Code Competition

Intel® Software Network Multi-threading Competition Series
Intel are holding a competition at http://www.topcoder.com/intel. This is aimed at developing multi threaded applications on multi processor computers. This will occur during a 12 month period. Each competion will last for 2 weeks.
You could win Monthly Cash Prizes:
Champion – $2,500
2nd Place – $1,000
3rd Place – $750
4th Place – [...]

XUL Challenge

There was a recent XUL challenge at http://www.sourceforge.net
, they show cased many extensible User interfaces. They all had to develop a little application using different extensible User interfaces.

I won XBox 360 & Xbox 360 Game !!!

I won XBox 360 & Xbox 360 Game !! It says
Abishek Bellamkonda from Melbourne, Australia, using Grasshopper
Abishek used Grasshopper for the port and said “I had a few hiccups, but for the most part, Grasshopper did the work for me.” Abishek ported both the Time Tracker and Reports kit and said the first port took [...]