i like butter, don't you?

FullCodePress finished on Sunday morning. And the result? Victory for the Kiwis!

In first place we have the Kiwis’ website:
http://kiwi.fullcodepress.mbcomms.net.au/

And in second place we have the Koalas’ website:
http://aussie.fullcodepress.mbcomms.net.au/

I was awake for the duration of the competition and the awards ceremony (about 36 hours without sleep) and then crashed until the morning (about 18 hours sleeping). My brain is fried from coding so quickly.

I’m still recovering (hence the late blog post).

New Zealand won by a small margin, but more importantly our client has a new website for their charity. Hopefully it will help their cause and change someone’s life for the better.

Before the competition, I saw the Sydney Opera House, and the beach at Manly.¹ Then the teams ate together along CockleBay.² Sydney’s a beautiful city, and not what I expected.

My team members kicked ass, and the Australian team rocked as well. It was great to get together for good causes, even if it was under the guise of competition.

You can read the reactions of my team members too:

• Ali’s blog (the all-rounder)
• Mark’s blog (the programmer)
• Peter’s blog (the writer)
• Steve’s blog (the designer)
• T-dog’s blog (the project manager)
• Zef’s blog (the usability guru)

Or you can read the Xero blog entry. The competition was also plugged on National Radio (somewhere between two and three minutes).

The next FullCodePress is before Webstock in February and any country can participate.

<sub>1. I felt manly after leaving Manly.
2. Cockle Bay? Manly? Sydney seem to favor one gender over another.</sub>