Sometimes long running loops are solving race conditions ;D If you remove this code, the method is executed faster and suddenly nothing works anymore! (Real world example!)

I'm not a web-developer, but we use "gerrit" for code reviews, and it helped a lot to get the code quality better.(android, iOS and GRails) When people know that someone will really look at their code, the start to think twice if they write bad code. We also have forced our code rules with this. You can reject commits in gerrit or down vote them, force people to submit patches for their commits and have better code in the end. Of course it takes some time to do this. But i wouldn't want to code without code review anymore.

I'll try to have only a few images in challenge 3 and 5. These are the "coding" challenges, so i'll post code instead. But challenge 4 (The "setup a VM" challenge) will have a lot i guess.

From my point of view there is no "Too Many". It should be reasonable amount. This can be 10 or 50. However, the Azure challenge is not a traditional codeproject article. It's a challenge with 5 steps, which means it's like 5 articles in one.

i've read a lot of articles from this contest on my tablet during my way to and from the office, and some of them didn't even meet the requirement of writing two sentences about azure and the benefits of it. I will never understand this :/

Wow, it's Monday 7 am here and i've received the good news via eMail. What a wonderful start into this week. Also a perfect motivation, i'll work harder on my project from now on :) Congratulations to both other winners and good luck for the rest of this contest to all other participants!