I’m a big fan of rules and discipline in software development; as an example, see Are You a Hacker or a Designer?. Also, I’m a big fan of object-oriented programming in its purest form; for example, see Seven Virtues of a Good Object. I’m also a co-founder and a retired CEO of Zerocracy, a software development company through which I put my admiration of discipline and clean design into practice.
I want to encourage you to share my passion—not just by reading this blog but through making real open source software in a disciplined way. This award is for those who are brave enough to swim against the current and value quality above everything else.
ATTENTION: Submission to 2021 is open.
@amihaiemil
, @hdouss
, and @victorx64
were the winners in 2020 with decorators-squad/eo-yaml
($1,024), hdouss/jeometry
(1,024), and victorx64/devrating
($1,024) projects. More details.
@fabriciofx
and @proshin-roman
were the winners in 2019 with cactoos-jdbc
($1,024) and finapi-java-client
($1,024) projects. More details.
@driver733
and @dgroup
were the winners in 2018 with VK-Uploader
($2,048) and docker-unittests
($1,024) projects. More details.
@itcraftsmanpl
and @mafagafogigante
were the winners in 2017 with php-ml
(PHP) and dungeon
(Java) projects. They received a cash prize of $1,024 each. More details.
@pholser
and @sils
were the winners in 2016 with pholser/junit-quickcheck
(Java) and coala/coala
(Python) projects. They received a cash prize of $2,048 each. More details.
@gvlasov
was a winner in 2015 with gvlasov/inflectible
Java project and a cash prize of $4,096. More details.