Dev-Tips Turns 1! The Huge Giveaway Bash Begins!

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Recently, we wrote about Dev-Tips turning one year old, and asked for items to be donated for a giveaway bash. I'm thrilled to say the response has been absolutely overwhelming. I have been stunned by everyones kindness and will to donate an item or product. With that said, I published the first post for Dev-Tips one year ago today. We've got 11 amazing items and products to giveaway to some of our readers, let the giveaway begin!

UPDATE!

As of January 14, 2010 I will be picking and emailing the random winners and ensuring those who won are eligible to receive the prize. Please check your inbox and make sure no messages get caught in your spam filter over the next few days. More updates shortly!

The Giveaway Items/Products

We have 11 amazing items and products to giveaway to our readers, they are as follows.

PHP Reference Book (Print Edition)

Courtesy of Mario Lurig - Author


A collection of over 250 PHP functions with clear explanations in language anyone can understand, followed with as many examples as it takes to understand what the function does and how it works. One of the best PHP books to keep around as a PHP reference.
This PHP reference includes numerous additional tips, the basics of PHP, MySQL query examples, regular expressions syntax, and two indexes to help you find information faster: a common language index and a function index.

2 Spotify Invites for the Free to Use Version!

Courtesy of BeCreativeMagazine


Millions of songs - instant and simple
Discover and share music with your friends

Not available in all countries

$25 Amazon Giftcard

Courtesy of BeCreativeMagazine


BeCreative Magazine is an online design/social media magazine. It´s also a blog for people who want to learn how to design, code and write online. Whether you need to know how to design a website from scratch, start developing themes or maybe even want to learn how to write properly for the web we´ve got it.

FREE PSD to XHTML Conversion ($123 value)

Courtesy of HiddenPearls


HiddenPearls is offering a free PSD to HTML conversion for one homepage and one contact page, a $123 value, absolutely free to one lucky winner! Be sure to follow him on Twitter!

FREE 3 Month TUTS+ Subscription

Courtesy of Envato


From graphics to web development, audio to video and more, get the skills you want from our family of tutorial and resource sites. Need more? We also offer a Plus program where you can access source files and bonus tutorials.

$50 Credit to any one of the Envato Marketplace

Courtesy of ActiveDen, AudioJungle, ThemeForest, VideoHive, GraphicRiver, 3dOcean, and/or CodeCanyon.


The Envato Marketplaces allow anyone to buy or sell digital goods like WordPress themes, stock audio, After Effects project files, Flash templates and much more. The marketplaces are home to a thriving community of over 300,000 users, authors and buyers and everyday hundreds of new files are added.

AJAX and PHP: Building Modern Web Applications 2nd Edition (paperback)

Courtesy of PacktPub


This book is a step-by-step, example-driven AJAX tutorial, featuring complete case studies. Each chapter contains a friendly mix of theory and practice, so that your journey through the book will be pleasant, yet efficient. You’ll be coding your first AJAX application at the end of the first chapter, and with each new chapter you’ll develop increasingly complex AJAX applications featuring advanced techniques and coding patterns.

Digging Into WordPress the Book (pdf)

Courtesy of DigWP


Written by WordPress veterans Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr, Digging into WordPress is 400+ jam-packed pages of everything you need to get the most out of WordPress. WordPress is great right out of the box, but unless you want an ordinary vanilla blog, it is essential to understand the full potential of WordPress and have the right tools to get the job done.

One Standard Premium Account for Are My Sites Up?

Courtesy of Chris Coyier


Your clients and/or customers don’t care that a hamster chewed through a network cable somewhere in Northern California. They want their website up. You need to find out before they do so you can react fast!

Beginning Zend Framework (print edition)

Courtesy of Apress Publishing


The Zend Framework is one of today’s most popular PHP–based web application development frameworks. Beginning Zend Framework is a beginner’s guide to learning and using the Zend Framework. It covers everything from the installation to the various features of the framework to get the reader up and running quickly.

Beginning Python From Novice To Professional, Second Edition (pdf)

Courtesy of Apress Publishing


Gain a fundamental understanding of Python’s syntax and features with the second edition of Beginning Python, an up–to–date introduction and practical reference. Covering a wide array of Python–related programming topics, including addressing language internals, database integration, network programming, and web services, you’ll be guided by sound development principles. Ten accompanying projects will ensure you can get your hands dirty in no time.

Updated to reflect the latest in Python programming paradigms and several of the most crucial features found in the forthcoming Python 3.0 (otherwise known as Python 3000), advanced topics, such as extending Python and packaging/distributing Python applications, are also covered.

How Do I Enter?

Simple and takes merely seconds! Follow these steps:

  1. Tweet about this post on twitter using any text you like. Nothing fancy. Here is a link you may use http://bit.ly/6kzEwQ
  2. Leave a comment below about which items you would like to win. Please list at least three (please add more if you can!) in case your desired item is already taken if you win.
  3. That's it, I told you it was simple!

As the comments grow larger, you will want to consider requesting choices that haven't been requested as much, to improve your chance of getting your first choice if you win.

How are the winners determined?

Random. All Random. We will choose random winners when the contest is over and try to give them their first item choice, if available. There will be 11 total winners, so be sure to follow the above steps to enter!

Please Support Our Sponsors!

This contest just would not have been possible without some amazing and very generous people and companies. Please take a minute of your time to give one of them a browse when you have the chance. Special thanks to:

Once again, please join me in saying a huge "thank you!" to our sponsors!

Support Dev-Tips

We've grown a lot in one year, and we're hoping to continue to see that trend in the year 2010. If Dev-Tips has helped you out in anyway in the past year, I ask you to please consider making a small donation to help us offset the cost of hosting and running the site. Any and all donations are very much appreciated.


Follow @Dev_Tips and @DrewDouglass on Twitter!

Enter now!

Read through the contest steps above, and enter your comment now for a chance to win one of the 11 items!

When Will the Winners be Picked?

We will be picking a winner around January 13th. We may extend this a bit to give everyone a fair chance to enter.


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ABOUT THIS AUTHOR

Hi, I'm Drew Douglass and I make sure Dev-Tips.com runs smoothly. I also work for Envato Support and write for NETTUTS.com and ThemeForest.net. I'm passionate about anything web development related, especially php, WordPress, MySQL, and jQuery. Feel free to follow me on twitter.
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