Enter this contest hosted by Microsoft and compete for the chance to win $50,000.  The Microsoft Connected Systems 2005 Developer Competition is a global, skill based competition intended to highlight and reward creativity and programming excellence using SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk 2004/2006.  There are 15 categories for the competition, including a SmartPhone app category, a Visual Studio PowerToy category, and more.  Entries are accepted up to August 30th.  The contest ends September 15th.

Thanks to Martin Crimes for bringing this to my attention.

-- Matt Ranlett