The Windows 8 Online App-a-thon on CoderCharts has come to an end. We hope you all had fun hacking Windows 8. Now, we have winners!

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who participated by registering, submitting your app as well as voting.

The winners are as follows:
LifeStyle - The Team Formerly Known as Metro
Edutainment - Neiti
Utility - Team Sekvenz

We hope to improve on the experience and would appreciate any feedbacks and comments from you. You can leave a comment here or send us an email to agnes at codercharts dot com.

Thank you and hope to bring you another fun competition / hackathon soon.

Due to popular demand, now you can see the code submitted by others. However, there are some restrictions.

If you want to keep your code secret, you can do so by going to your profile settings and select the code tab and disabling code sharing. The code is available only to those who participated in the contest. The full list of conditions needed to see someone's code can be found here.

Now when viewing a submission the result is also shown for each unit test when available.

This should help everyone with their debugging/tuning. Good luck !

What a fun conference and a fun contest. So much fun that we decided to run an after party, a first in CoderCharts history. Now for the winners.

Congratulations to all the contestants and especially to the following winners. As usual make sure your profile is filled with your contact information so that we can give you your prizes !

Grand Prize Winner

random.johnnyh

E-book Winners

protocolocon

Shotaro Yamazoe

Moises Lopez

liquarax

Best JavaScript Contestant Winner

hellocopter

Seeing that so many are tied at the top, we decided to add one last puzzle: Snake charmer.

Hopefully this will break the ties at the top of the leaderboard.

For this puzzle we also added a playable javascript game for it (on the puzzle page, scroll down to demonstration), it can also be used as a simulator to debug your code, you can enter your own grid and run your own moves on it. Or you can simply play it manually. Note that if animate is unselected, you will have to push a key for each move (it won't auto-repeat).