Web 2.0 ASP.NET

Thanks to the success of the extended ReSharper trial licenses and discount coupons, I am delighted to announce that I will be running a competition called COOL SNIPPETS code-off! The prizes will be ReSharper Personal Licenses!!!!!

The idea is simple:

1. Email me the coolest, leanest, head slappingly elegant code snippet that your genius can divine (web2asp@gmail.com) and tell me what it does and why it’s cool. Please put “Cool Code Snippets” in the subject line of your email.

2. Indicate if you would prefer your name to remain anonymous (I will be posting some of the coolest snippets periodically on my blog during the competition. If you elect to be anonymous I will just use some arbitrary initials as the author).

3. There will be more competitions for developer gear coming up, so if you would like to get prior notice, indicate this in your email too. (Your email will be solely used for this purpose, I do not spam or share mailing lists that is a promise).

4. Wait 2 months as this is how long the competition will run! (Competition runs from today 19th August 2009 – 19th October 2009 you will be contacted soon after the 19th October).

Instructions for you email

Put “Cool Code Snippets” in the subject line

Email body should look something like this:

Name: Carl Coder
I want to be anonymous: yes/no
Mail me about future competitions: yes/no
Code snippet:

//obviously you can do much better than this
var x = new VeryCoolClass();
Explanation & Why it’s cool:
blah blah blah

You will automatically be entered into the competition for your very own ReSharper Personal License courtesy of the wonderfully generous geniuses over at JetBrains upon receipt of your code snippet. For the statisticians amongst you, JetBrains will award a license for every 100 entries (for the non-statisticians this means that you are far more likely to win than get hit by a flying pig!). Let me spell it out, the more of you that enter, the more chances you have of winning!

The rules are simple:

1. One entry per person (no multiple entries of the same snippet from different email addresses etc.)

2. The code must be yours, DO NOT use code “borrowed” from your company’s repository or anything that you don’t have the right to freely share.

3. You will need to provide a real email address (so that I can contact you if you win doh!) and if you do win other details so that JetBrains can issue the license to you.

4. The licenses are bound by the standard user agreement with JetBrains and are for personal use and shall not be shared or otherwise distributed.

A panel of objective adjudicators (Dave’s Dev Team) will decide the winners. This decision will be final (no whining or throwing your toys out of the pram if you don’t win!).

And that’s it as simple as that, so what are you waiting for? Get your coding caps on!