Microsoft, Ibuildings, and Leaseweb have joined forces to create a contest, and are offering some big prizes for it. To participate, you need to develop an application on Windows/IIS7 using PHP and submit it to the contest. The winners will then be announced at the closing keynote of the Dutch PHP Conference 2009. Only catch is that it is open to programmers in Europe/UK only.

Registration for the contest opens on April 2nd, the actual contest will start on April 15th. All contestants must have registered before April 15th to be considered. The contest will run from April 15th till May 31st. During that time you will build your masterpiece and blog regularly about your experiences of using PHP on Windows. (The good, the bad and the ugly) Starting June 1st, the judges will mercilessly pour over your application and code picking it apart and exposing it to the world. Finally, on June 13th, 2009, as part of the closing ceremonies for DPC09, we will announce the winners. Winners will also be notified via email for those not able to attend DPC09.