--- title: "Addin Contest (Blog category)" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/addin-contest.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/addin-contest" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts." usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Addin Contest (Blog category) Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts. HTML: https://osherove.com/blog/category/addin-contest · 11 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://osherove.com/llms.txt) - [Add-in Contest winners announced!](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/13/add-in-contest-winners-announced.md) (2004-08-13): The final winners for the Add-in contest are: http://dev.magen.com/AddinContest/pages/Winners.aspx Total prize worth that we'll be handing out: over $2,000. I'd like to thank all of the prize contributors for their help… - [Testing Blogs at Microsoft, and Addin contest news](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/10/testing-blogs-at-microsoft-and-addin-contest-news.md) (2004-08-10): I had a great time today, doing yet another talk a “Ness” - one of the largest companies in Israel - about Agile development and XP projects. (We're working on making this talk again in the coming month available to all… - [Announcing:Coolest Add-in Contest - Entries available for download](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/18/announcingcoolest-add-in-contest-entries-available-for-downl.md) (2004-07-18): Announcing the Add-in Contest site: http://dev.magen.com/AddinContest/default.aspx Site features: Lists all the entries that were eligible to enter the contest, along with a download link and short descriptions. (some… - [Add-in contest submission phase is now officially over](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/2/add-in-contest-submission-phase-is-now-officially-over.md) (2004-07-02): The Add-in contest submission phase is now officially over. Over the next few weeks I'll gather up the 20 or so submissions that fit the criteria )those who did't were notified in advance) and put them up on a site.… - [Add-in contest ends this month!](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/17/add-in-contest-ends-this-month.md) (2004-06-17): 13 days to go . I suggest you start sending in your add-ins. If the slow submission rate keeps up I would have no choice but to postpone or cancel the contest altogether. FYI. As of now less than 10 submission received.… - [T- (11+30) + explanation + apology](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/21/t-1130-explanation-apology.md) (2004-05-21): First, I apologize for any problem my little contest scheduling conflict caused. Before I explain exactly what happened, I'll just say that the contest will close at June 30th (end of next month) and not the end of this… - [Add-in Contest news and updates](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/9/add-in-contest-news-and-updates.md) (2004-05-09): There's a problem with the Add-in Contest. We're not getting enough entries. I'm starting to wonder. Is it too hard? are people too lazy? is a first prize worth over 2,000$ and fame not worth the trouble? SO here's what… - [Another book added to Add-in contest prizes](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/7/another-book-added-to-add-in-contest-prizes.md) (2004-05-07): Just added another book to the add-in contest prize bunch: Build Your Own ASP.NET Website Using C# & VB.NET . Thanks Matt! Reminder : you have until the end of this month to submit an add-in and win prizes worth up to… - [1st prize just got a whole lot bigger](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/25/1st-prize-just-got-a-whole-lot-bigger.md) (2004-04-25): Just got the word- Essential Suite by SyncFusion has been added to 1st prize at the Add-in competition . That's the same suite of tools I use in The Regulator , along with the cool text editor that supports Syntax… - [What Add-ins would you like to see in the contest?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/23/what-add-ins-would-you-like-to-see-in-the-contest.md) (2004-04-23): The Add-In contest is really picking up steam . The prizes rock, and hopefully we'll all be getting some cool entries that we can all benefit from. However, I got a good suggestion from Eric Brunsen: “How about adding a… - [\[Coding Contest\] Most Useful/Innovative VS.Net Add-in/Macro (and some huge prizes)](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/21/coding-contest-most-usefulinnovative-vsnet-add-inmacro-and-s.md) (2004-04-21): So here's the deal. We hold a contest. It will be called Most useful Add-in/macro for visual studio .Net You send me your submissions (including code) and according to who wins, we give out some prizes. The judges :… --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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