8 Worldwide Winners Announced in IDUG's Search for "the XML Superstar".- IDUG IDUG International DB2 Users Group IDUG International Db2 User Group IDUG Intrusion Detection User Group [R], the International DB2 Users Group, judges more than 70,000 entries from 25 nations before awarding top prize in its worldwide search for XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. 'superstars" to developer Renzo Nuccitelli of Sao Jose dos Campos São José dos Cam·pos A city of southeast Brazil east-northeast of São Paulo. It is a major center of Brazil's aircraft industry. Population: 600,000. Noun 1. , Brazil - Other top prize winners hail from Georgia (USA), Ontario (Canada), India, Japan and Indonesia. - Global contest encourages students, faculty and developers to showcase their skills with XML (eXtensible Markup Language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. ) and its related DB2 technologies. CHICAGO -- IDUG[R], the International DB2 Users Group, today announced seven 2008 winners of its global competition, "The Search for the XML Superstar" which awards and recognizes outstanding talent among current or future software developers. Renzo Nuccitelli of Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, captured first place in the global "XML Programming" competition for the top-scoring entry among the eligible applications. Top developer and winner of a Lenovo[R] laptop computer in the "Ported Application" segment of the global competition was Anil Mahadev, Karnataka, India. Yasuhiro Nonaka, Tokyo, Japan, winner of the "Query Challenge" contest, was awarded an iPod[R] Touch. Dual winners of the 2008 "Gadget Challenge" competition were Ontario, Canada's Zaidan Alaoui and Maharashtra, India's Vibha Pandya. Both will be awarded Zune[R] MP3 players A digital music player that supports the MP3 format, which was the audio format that started a revolution in online music downloads and distribution. All portable music players, the iPod being the most popular, support MP3 along with one or more other audio formats. . Rahsheen Porter, Grayson, Geo. (USA) and his video entry and Rendra Setiawan, Jakarta, Indonesia, were winners of the "Video Mania" contest and will receive Apple iPod[R] Nano players. "The Search for the XML Superstar" covered North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, China, Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. and India and sought to locate, recognize and award top XML developer talent. The more than 70,000 who competed last year included university students, faculty and professional developers, regardless of their individual skill and experience levels with XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and its related database technologies. "IDUG was impressed with the outstanding work we saw emerging from bright individuals such as Renzo and our other seven global winners," says Julian Stuhler, president of IDUG and also principal consultant, Triton Consulting, Norfolk, United Kingdom. "The worlds of business, government, health care and academia are already benefiting from their exceptional XML developer talents." The XML superstar contest was open to those with all levels of XML and database management experience. For those with no prior knowledge, "The Search for the XML Superstar" provided an opportunity to learn about these important technologies. Numerous workshops, events and ceremonies held regionally are recognizing contributions of winners, Stuhler added. He noted 2008's competitors benefited by joining contest groups formed at Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends. Launched in 2006, Twitter (www.twitter.com) was designed for people to broadcast their current activities and thoughts. and Orkut. The contest was spearheaded by IDUG, an independent, user-run organization of data management professionals who use DB2 and related technology. IDUG's mission is to support the information services See Information Systems. community by providing education and services to utilize IBM's DB2 family of products. |
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