Kevin Schroeder has received a few copies of his "You Want to Do WHAT With PHP?" book from his publisher and is trying to figure out how to give them away for the folks out there that'd like to check it out.
I just got my copies of my book "You want to do WHAT with PHP?" today. During my conversations with MCPress, my publisher, I had asked for 3 copies to do a social media promotion and they agreed. I posted that I would be giving away 3 copies on Twitter and got a whole bunch of "I WANTS". So I asked my publisher for more copies to give away and they agreed to another 6. So that is a total of 9 copies I have available to give away. Now the problem I have is; how do I give them away.
He's asking that whoever wins pays for the shipping (since it's open to world-wide audiences) and will be splitting it up into three categories with three winners each - user groups to help fill their libraries, those on Twitter and Facebook folks.
Those looking to get into developing with CakePHP might want to get in on a book giveaway that Matt Curry is doing over on his blog.
I'm not sure if this is going to be frowned upon, but I'm giving away my review copy of CakePHP Application Development (reviewed here). I figure I don't have much use for it, so maybe someone else will benefit.
To be in the running, all you need to do is make a comment on the post by February 28th, 2009.
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.
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.