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Michael Kimsal's Blog:
Codemash free admission drawing giveaway

by Chris Cornutt December 10, 2007 @ 13:43:00

Those of you wanting to go out to Codemash, listen up! (literallty). Michael Kimsal is giving away a free pass to this year's even that he'll be drawing for - but you need to listen to his latest WebDevRadio podcast to find out how.

The codemash organizers have graciously donated a free pass to the upcoming Codemash conference to be given away to one lucky webdevradio.com listener. To enter in to the drawing, listen to the codemash episode interview podcast on webdevradio with Jim Holmes, follow the instructions, and hope your name is drawn.

You can either listen to the episode right on the page, download the mp3 of the show or subscribe to their feed to get this and other great episodes.

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Rob Richards' Blog:
We Have A Winner

by Chris Cornutt May 09, 2006 @ 05:48:22

Rob Richards of the CDATA Zone Blog has chosen his winner in the contest for a copy of the book he offered, Pro PHP XML and Web Services - Brian Wurster from Arlington, Virginia.

I received a large number of entries (more than expected), but did read every single one of them. The majority were very well done and ranged from someone threatening to bite their own leg off (nice picture btw) to the other extreme of threatening to beat with me a stick (was very funny if you happen to be familiar with Theo Schlossnagle's post for a junior programmer). Both of these were among the finalists, but the entry finally chosen stood out a bit more than the rest.

What really set this entry apart was the creativity. The entry was submitted as a lone PHP script. Lucky for Brian it ran without errors because there was no way I was going to read all that code :), other than to notice it used the new PHP 5 OO features.

Congrats to Brian and if you'd like to check out more of this book yourself, head over to the official APress page for the book. There's an overview, info about the author, and a sample chapter to get an idea of what it's like.

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