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CeBIT: NZ wins FullCodePress Competition
13 May 2009
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Haydn Thomsen from the NZ “Codeblacks” web development team, accepting their prize for their winning website.
The New Zealand team has beaten Australia in the second FullCodePress competition at CeBIT Australia 2009. They built a fully functional website in under 24 hours for the Rainbow Youth, a not-for-profit organisation based in Auckland. I had a chance to speak with the team, representatives from Rainbow Youth and also one of the NZ organizers Mike Brown. You can listen to with the MP3 link at the top of this story.
The best thing is that the Disability Discrimination Legal Centre in NSW also get to keep the website built for them by the Australian team. It will go online soon but you can have a look at it for a short time here and also at the winning build for Rainbow Youth. And the competition was documented online at FullCodePress.com
CeBIT: Geek Olympics
13 May 2009
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FullCodePress is one of the more interesting things I found in the exhibition space at CeBIT Australia 2009. The idea is simple: two teams of web developers, one from New Zealand, the other from Australia, square off in a 24 hour battle to build a complete website for a not-for-profit organisation. I caught up with some members of the Australian team a couple of hours in, and also Roger Hudson who is one of the organisers of FullCodePress. Follow the MP3 link at the top of this story to listen.
The winning website will be announced at 11:30 today, Wednesday 13th of May.
CeBIT Australia 2009
11 May 2009
I’ll be in Sydney this week to cover the CeBIT Australia 2009 conference and exhibition. It’s the largest business technology event of its kind in the Asia Pacific and I’ll be blogging from the exhibition all week, as well as posting to twitter (you can follow me @tech_stream). I’ll also be trialling the Audio-boo service as well, which will allow me to file audio reports live to the web. Exciting stuff!
