Red Gate: Fennell, McKenzie and Rendle Win $10,000 Each for Windows Phone 7 Apps Developers Will Love

Richard Fennell, Simon McKenzie and Mark Rendle have won $10,000 each in Red Gate Software’s competition for Microsoft Windows Phone 7 apps that developers will love. Five others received $1,000 awards fromRed Gate.

The mandate for the competition was simple: Make a WP7 app that will impress fellow developers. Three panels of judges, aided by social media commentary, selected winners from more than 100 entries in the competition.

Compelling apps to go

Richard Fennell’s TFS Build Status Monitor lets users keep tabs on their Team Foundation Server and create and edit work items while on the road. Judges loved the practicality of the app and said it showed creative thought about what would deliver the most value in the mobile environment.

Simon McKenzie’s winning app, called MapSnap GPS, lets users turn any picture into a GPS-enabled portable map. Judges said the app “shows how a smartphone can enhance real-world experiences rather than distracting from them.”

The Pocket C# app created by Mark Rendle gives C# developers the ability to code using a smartphone. While it doesn’t replace software development on the desktop, judges called the app “a life-enhancing service for developers.”

More winning apps

Winners of the $1,000 awards are:

• Jason Doucette for Decimation X2, a retro shooter game;
• Sergei Golubev for the marketplace-monitoring AppTracker;
• Rudy Huyn for a design-rich RSS feed reader called Fuse;
• Stuart Lodge for the Ruby language scripting app Iron7; and
• Gergely Orosz for Cocktail Flow, a cocktail recipe app.

“We’re delighted by the response from the .NET development community and thank Microsoft for its support in promoting and helping to judge the competition,” says Neil Davidson, Red Gate’s co-CEO. “The third ecosystem Microsoft is building provides a huge opportunity for .NET developers to use their skills to develop mobile tools that the community will love.”

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