Adobe would like to thank all of the entrants in the Adobe AIR Developer Derby. Many of the entries that we received were impressive demonstrations of developer talent and the capabilities of Adobe AIR. We were stunned with the quality of these applications and the effort that was put into them.
Adobe is pleased to congratulate the winners of the Adobe AIR Developer Derby!
Winners
Grand Prize Winner and Winner—Best Flex Business Application
Agile Agenda
Developer: Marc Hughes
Winner—Best HTML Business Application
ORA Time and Expense
Developer: John Wu
Winner—Best HTML Community Application
Spaz.AIR
Developer: Edward Finkler
Winner—Best Flex Community Application
SearchCoders
Developers: Tom Bray and Robert Cadena
Winner—Wild Card
Digimix
Developer: Alan Queen
Please check out the Adobe AIR Developer Center for more information about the winning applications. In addition, the Edge newsletter has interviews with the developers who built the winning applications.
Prizes
Grand Prize / Best of Show
The Best of Show winner will receive the trip of a lifetime, a travel certificate valued at up to US$100,000, to be used for the travel of your choice!
Five category winners will each receive “The Ultimate Development Environment” to power your Adobe AIR development (and play) for years to come:
- A Mac Pro 8Core with 4 gigs ram, 1.5 TB (2x750GB) of storage.
- (2) Dell 2707WFP 27" widescreen monitors.
- (1) one Sony Playstation 3.
- (1) $200 gift certificate to Amazon.com.
- (1) Herman Miller Aeron chair.
- (1) Bose Quiet Comfort 3 noise canceling headphones.
- (1) copy of Adobe Flex™ Builder™ version 3, Macintosh edition.
- (1) copy of Adobe Creative Suite® 3 Master Collection for Macintosh.
- And one squishy stress ball.
Plus each winner also receives:
- A trip and conference pass to the Adobe MAX 2007 annual user conference.
- Your application showcased on Adobe.com for the world to see.
*See the official rules for prize details.
Categories and Judging
Entries will be judged on innovation, visual design and appeal, usability, and application of Adobe AIR functionality in the following categories:
Best Business Application
This category is for an application with a business and / or enterprise focus which utilizes Adobe AIR functionality. Example applications might include (but are not limited to) data entry applications, data analysis tools and / or desktop visualization of online data. There will be two winners in this category:
- Best Adobe AIR application built with HTML / JavaScript
- Best Adobe AIR application built with Flash / Flex
Best Community Application
This category is for an application with a community / social focus, that combines content from one or more sources. Example applications will utilize web APIs, complement existing web applications, and take advantage of Adobe AIR functionality. Example applications include (but are not limited to) social networks, MashUps and Chat applications. There will be two winners in this category:
- Best Adobe AIR application built with HTML / JavaScript
- Best Adobe AIR application built with Flash / Flex
Wild Card
This category is for applications which can’t be defined by the other contest categories and utilize Adobe AIR functionality. This includes, but is not limited to, games and general utilities.
Grand Prize / Best of Show
The Best of Show prize will be awarded to the overall top Adobe AIR application, and the winner will be selected from one of the category winners.
