The final results are in in the DotGeek Programming Marathon mentioned back in October - 178 programmers registered, with only 14 of them making the cut.

The Marathon problem separated the real geeks from the wannabe. A live monitor was counting the hours to the deadline. You can see their live scripts below and the full sources here. Each of these 14 participants has earned his or her way towards free hosting on DotGeek.org (100 MB PHP + mySQL + FTP and lots more), three will receive the prizes kindly offered by Dotgeek, Zend and Suse.

I think it's great that this contest was such a success - maybe it will even help to promote PHP even more in the programming world. For all of the details on this event, see http://marathon.dotgeek.org/