Innovation Award results of December of 2008

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Rank	Class	Author	Score	Points
1	Open Inviter Get contacts of friends of different networks	Open Inviter	`30.77%`	`6`
2	SQL Parse Convert to Tree Array Build a tree to represent an SQL query	François NEUMANN-RYSTOW	`26.92%`	`5`
3	pl2method Execute PgSQL stored procedures as class functions	Ivo Augusto Nascimento	`15.38%`	`4`
4	Bluetrait A multi-user blog system	Michael Dale	`13.46%`	`3`
5	Flood Assassin Check whether a message can be spam	Benjamin Falk	`7.69%`	`2`
6	Console Control output of text to an ANSI console	Alex B. Snet	`5.77%`	`1`

Nominees to win the award of December of 2008

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Class:		Dash Media Player
	Description:	Embed the Dash Media player in a Web page
	Author:	Travis Tidwell
	Age:	29
	Country:	United States
Comment:		Nowadays, one of the most popular uses of Flash is to embed video players on Web pages. This class integrates an advanced Flash based video and audio player with PHP to generate HTML tags to embed the player, as well to generate play lists to feed the player dynamically.

Class:		Facebook Notification Class
	Description:	Send e-mail and notifications to Facebook users
	Author:	Md. Mahmud Ahsan
	Age:	24
	Country:	Bangladesh
Comment:		Facebook became a very popular social networking site due to the possibility to extend it with user developed applications that extend its features. This class uses Facebook API to send e-mail messages or notifications from applications to its users.

Class:		adv_net
	Description:	Analyze the local network with nmap
	Author:	Tomasz Malewski
	Age:	24
	Country:	Poland
Comment:		Some applications need to find out details of the network they are running in, like for instance the MAC address of a machine given its IP. This class provides a solution that to find the MAC address and other network details that works on Linux and other UNIX-like systems using tools like arping and nmap.

Class:		SQL Parse and Compile
	Description:	Parse and compose SQL queries programatically
	Author:	Tom Schaefer
	Age:	???
	Country:	Germany
Comment:		Programmatically composing simple SQL queries is a relatively easy task. However, more complex queries are harder to compose. This class provides a solution that not only simplifies the composition of complex queries using a fluent interface, but it can also parse, edit and rewrite predefined SQL queries.

Class:		IAF decoder coder
	Description:	Parse and generate Outlook IAF configuration files
	Author:	ruslan kononov
	Age:	27
	Country:	Russian Federation
Comment:		Outlook Express is a very popular application for accessing mail services, Usenet newsgroups, etc.. This class provides a solution to create or edit configuration files that help the users of an ISP setting up the connection for accessing the supported Internet services.

Class:		Console Progress Bar
	Description:	Draw a progress bar in ANSI console
	Author:	Alex B. Snet
	Age:	19
	Country:	Russian Federation
Comment:		Some applications need to execute tasks that may take a long time to execute. Therefore it is useful to show a progress bar, so the user has an idea of how much was done and how much remains to complete the task. This class provides means to render a progress bar for tasks executed by shell based applications that run on ANSI consoles.

Class:		Name Parser
	Description:	Parse a person full name to retrieve its parts
	Author:	G. Miernicki
	Age:	33
	Country:	United States
Comment:		Person names are represented in various formats depending on the country of the person. This class can parse a person names in several variants as they may be presented in the United States. It makes it easy for PHP applications extract the different parts of the names of the people.

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