Windows Home Server Code2Fame Challenge Winners

"Many thanks to all of our Code2Fame contestants for their great submissions. It was hard to choose the finalists, let alone the winners. One of the coolest things about the contest was the variety of applications...and Windows Home Server isn't even widely available yet!" — the Windows Home Server team

Killer add-ins are just what we got from the Code2Fame Challenge for Windows Home Server. On September 26, 2007, we brought the best entries to Redmond to compete in the final showdown. One lucky winner walked away with the $10,000 prize.

First Place: $10,000 Andrew Grant (CA, USA) for Whiist. Whiist is a free Add-in that allows users to easily host multiple web pages and photo albums on Windows Home Server. With Whiist it's a snap to make a Microsoft Office document—or anything that can publish to HTML—into a web page on your homeserver.com site. Simply drag photos into a website folder, and you can post albums of your favorite pictures to share with friends and family.

Second place: $5,000 David Wright (GA, USA) for Jungle Disk. Jungle Disk provides inexpensive online backup and storage of Windows Home Server content, using Amazon's S3 infrastructure. Available for purchase this fall, Jungle Disk is a great solution for "personal disaster recovery" and assured protection of your most important content.

Third place: $1,000 Prakash Gautam (OK, USA) for Community Feeds for Windows Home Server. This free Add-In pulls text, audio or video down to Windows Home Server via RSS, so it's viewable from an Xbox or any Windows Media Connect device. Use it to create personalized media libraries, accessible to the whole family at home or away.

Thanks as well to our esteemed finalist judges (back row in picture below, left to right): longtime tech journalist Paul Thurrott, analyst/industry pundit Rob Enderle, Steve VanRoekel, director of product management for Windows Server Solutions, Home Server engineering GM Charlie Kindel, and author and blogger Ed Bott. Prakash, Andrew and David are pictured in front, left to right.

You easily can create great applications for Windows Home Server too. To learn more check out the Windows Home Server Software Development Kit (SDK).

We'd like to also thank, and congratulate, ALL of our Code2Fame contestants for their hard work and support of Windows Home Server. We had so many terrific submissions it was hard to pick just three. So here are some honorable mentions and links to each.

Honorable Mentions:

Review the official rules for the Contest.