The finalists for the Connected Systems Developer Competition have been announced. You can see them at http://csdevcompetition.com. Congratulations to all of the finalists. I know that I reviewed a lot of really good ideas. While I didn't reveiw all of the finalist entries I was fortunate enought to review the SQLCLR Z-Machine entry. I really liked it because it brought back memories of a project we did in college. The assignment was to get in a group and write a word processor to show not only text input, spell checking, formatting, etc. but that we could work together as a team and do project management. As a team we decided that a word processor was boring and proposed to create a text based game that had all the same functionality. The game we produced wasn't as polished as the SQLCLR Z-Machine but it was a lot of fun to make and I learned a lot about working in groups and some of the problems and advantages that groups can give a project.