JavaScriptSearch Tuesday, November 21, 2006; 03:23 AM
Fotango UK, a leading creator of software solutions for
professional developers, has announced the launch of a web application
design competition aimed at developers. The Zimki Application Design
Competition has been launched to encourage web developers and application
designers to build original web 2.0 applications using the Zimki JavaScript
application development platform.
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Zimki is a pay as you go, end to end JavaScript web
application development platform that takes away the repetitive tasks
encountered when creating web applications. Setting up a server, security and
backups are done automatically, enabling developers to get on with doing what
they enjoy: developing applications.
Developers will be able to tap into Zimki's full API to create
standalone applications or 'Mash-ups' integrating multiple web services. The
prize pool for the competition includes an all expenses paid trip to the
emerging technology conference (Etech '07) in San Diego, California; plus a
high spec Apple MacBook Pro.
Additional prizes include a second prize of a top of the range
MacBook Pro and five runners up prizes of Apple Mac Minis. According to Koby
Amedume, Chief Marketing Officer for Fotango, "The application design
competition is a fantastic opportunity for developers out there to put into
practice those ideas for cool apps floating around their head". He added "The
winning developers and their applications will be promoted heavily by
Fotango, and their name, skills and abilities will be showcased in front of
some of the most influential people in the industry!"
The competition will run until 31st January 2007, and Fotango
have put together a heavyweight panel of independent judges from both the UK
and the United States to select the winning entries. These include Brady
Forrest of O'Reilly Radar, Ryan Carson of Carson Systems, Simon Willison of
Yahoo!, Adny Budd - author of CSS Mastery and John Musser of
ProgrammableWeb.com.
More details can be found at www.zimki.com.
Fotango is a leading UK software and systems development
business, building cutting edge technology solutions aimed at professional
developers and SME businesses. The company has been a wholly owned subsidiary
of Canon Europe Limited since 2001 and is recognised as a highly innovative
software and systems development business building cutting edge technology
solutions aimed at professional developers. Fotango has its roots in the open
source community. It runs the systems that it builds within its own
organisation and has a company philosophy of 'building for others what we use
for ourselves'.
www.fotango.com
Zimki is Fotango UK's flagship end to end JavaScript web
application development platform that takes away all the repetitive tasks
encountered when creating web applications. Things like setting up a server,
security and backups are all done automatically by Zimki, enabling developers
to get on with doing what they enjoy: developing applications. It is a 'pay
as you go' platform; this pay as you go model enables developers to build and
deploy applications without incurring any start-up costs. In essence a
utility based computing platform.
www.zimki.com
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