So I just spoke with Catherine at Microsoft (organiser of Devsta) and it’s kind of official so we can talk about it – Our application has managed to take out overall prize and best mobile device prize!
It’s been such a whirlwind ride and just goes to show that you really can build some interesting applications inside of a week!
I also need to thank a few people without whom this wouldn’t have been possible. First of all is Michael Minutillo my partner in crime and development – the man really is an indiscriminate information sponge and working with him keeps me at the top of my game! If you don’t read his blog I suggest you do, he will be an MVP in the near future once he’s “discovered” by the community a bit more. I should also thank Michael’s wife Barbie as he has 3 young kids at home and she had to pick up his share of the domestic duties whilst we were working on this app.
I also need to thank my boss (Wayne Murphy) from Fujitsu Web Solutions – he supported Michael and I throughout the competition and ensured that when we were too tired to do “real work” someone else would pick up our client commitments! (This thanks is about all you’re getting though Murph, the TV is mine!)
The Yeah Pants group (My friends) - I know I missed a few social events (a bucks night), a few card games and one or two other things but it was worth it and remember what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas! 
Thanks for the encouragement guys!
Of course I need to thank the other entrants – Some of the applications were truly amazing for 8 days duration and I wish you the best of luck in Devsta next year!
Catherine and the team at Microsoft and the Judges – I work with Microsoft products every day, in fact Microsoft are responsible for me being gainfully employed otherwise I’d probably be flipping burgers at McDonalds so I was already a big fan of their products but now even more so! I’m a bit of an organiser of events myself and I know these things are usually a very thankless job that require a lot of effort so a big THANK YOU to everyone who organised the competition (especially the prizes!) and to the judges for taking time out of their schedules to rate the applications.
Here’s a photo of the judges as they were calling us to let us know we’d won
From Left to Right
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Catherine Grima (I assume)
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Andrew Coates (Love that guy!)
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Edit: I feel bad – I should mention Michael Kordahi who is taking the photo!
I only wish we had a photo of our side of the conversation – I got a call from Andrew Coates (he has a very distinctive voice so I knew it wasn’t my boss Wayne playing a prank on me!) so I grabbed Michael and we went in to one of the conference rooms at work. Andrew announced that we managed to take the overall prize to which Michael and I replied with a stunned mullet look, I’m fairly sure it didn’t translate that well over the phone!
I asked Andrew to repeat what he’d just said to which he replied you’ve won the best mobile prize category and the overall prize it was about that point that Michael and I started screaming, cheering and high fiving to the judges laughter over the phone!
Anyway I have to run, got to get ready for a video interview with Andrew Parsons about our application!
If anyone knows any of the unknowns in the photo please let me know!
