Adapting to Web Standards Book Contest
December 19
With copies of Adapting to Web Standards hitting the bookstores, I decided to follow Dan’s book giveaway contest and have another one of my own.
How to Enter
The idea is that three winners will be picked randomly from the list of comments to this very blog post. Please note that anonymous comments don’t count and only one comment per person.
How to Win
I’m going to generate a set of random numbers and match them to the comment number for this blog post. (Note that comment numbers are generated automatically and sequentially.)
If one of the generated random numbers equals the number of your comment, you win.
Comments need to be posted before 11:59am ET by Friday December 21st. After that, the comment thread will be closed and the drawing will commence.
The Prizes
Each winner gets the following a copy of Adapting to Web Standards.
After the numbers are picked, I will follow up with the winners directly to get a mailing address to send out the prizes.
Sounds good? Best of luck!
See What Others Have Said
40 Responses to “Adapting to Web Standards Book Contest”
December 19th, 2007 at 9:36 am
I like the sounds of that!
December 19th, 2007 at 11:39 am
I’d love for a chance to read the book. Thanks.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Would love to get hold of this book which is co-authored by one of my colleagues!
December 19th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Well that’s a clever use of a weblog commenting engine. :) Probably lead to a lot of nosy comments but I enjoy a good software hack as much as the next person.
December 19th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
I think the idea of giving away free books about web standard is simply brilliant. Without groundbreaking descions like this, we will never get people like my mother, or my aunt to adopt the new specifications. And then the W3C might cry.
December 19th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
I can’t wait to get my hands on this book - I have high hopes for it. I’m hoping it will be the book I point clients and co-workers to when I need help explaining why and how we need to apply standards. Thanks!
December 19th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Since I’ve lost the ability to pester Kevin Lawver in person (stupid restraining order), and I can’t afford to follow him from conference to conference anymore, I *need* this book to get my fix!
December 19th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Looking forward to reading this book that willl help bolster arguments for applying web standards. Christopher, your comments on the CSS list are always helpful; I’m sure your book will be, too. Thanks for taking the time to write it!
December 19th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
I want to win… Then I can share the infinite knowledge with my colleagues. (esp. page 222)
December 19th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
What a needed book for the industry. Cheers to all the authors!
December 19th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Nice idea, but random numbers are so 2007. It’s almost 2008!
How about letting me make up the numbers? ;)
Good luck to everyone.
December 19th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Looking forward to it!
December 19th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Trying to think of a way to force others to read it…
Best of luck to everyone.
December 19th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Free stuff is cool!
December 19th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
What a wonderful idea! I would love to get my hands on the book, but it would be even better to win it!
December 19th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Sounds good to me!
December 19th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Perhaps it can improve my webdesign as well as my English… Very nice idea.
December 19th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
OH! I want, I want!!! Pick Me! Pick Me!
December 19th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Free is wonderful. I’m looking forward to the ajax stuff.
December 19th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Looks like a great book - I’ll be grabbing it if I’m not one of the lucky few here ;)
December 19th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Hey there. Sounds like a winning book. I’d love to win it!
December 19th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Can’t wait to read it.
December 19th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
I’m interested.
December 19th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Looks like an interesting book.
December 19th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
I’m currently developing data-intensive web applications. Since my code is all generated by the application, I’d like to see if I can apply principles in your book to my coding practice to produce cleaner end-result code for easier DOM manipulation.
December 19th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Does this contain truthiness?
December 19th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
I hope you do a sequel to take care of all the little web sites in the world. and of course the medium ones.
December 19th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
I am very interested in that book.
December 19th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Sweet. I can never turn down a contest for a free programmer book. :)
December 19th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Excellent idea for a book, much needed. The problem I have with many of the AJAX-driven sites is response time, too many trips back to the server. This can be a big usability problem. Looking forward to reading your book.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:49 am
I never read a web development book before … from front to back in that order. hehe
December 20th, 2007 at 3:46 am
Hi Christopher,
I love your other work and am definitely interested to use it in my day-to-day work for a large media company.
Cheers,
Jens
December 20th, 2007 at 3:49 am
I like pants!
December 20th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Hey Chris, sounds like a winner of a book. Any chance we can do a giveaway for my Adobe User Group in Los Angeles?
December 20th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Would love to see how the principles in the book apply to a site such as last.fm :) Would love it even more to have the book on our book shelf. Seems as if the O’Reilly book on building scalable web sites is doing the most rounds! Time to knock it off its perch!
December 20th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Oh oh.. randomly pick me! Make me a winner!
December 20th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Hi:
Will attempt to read your book; would love to win a copy.
LUCK LUCK LUCK to MOI MOI MOI
This entry has WINNER******* written all over it.
Thanks-
sbb
December 20th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
38! I love that number!
December 21st, 2007 at 11:47 am
Sign me up!
December 21st, 2007 at 12:30 pm
I didn’t read the entire page, but I think I got the gist of it. If I forward this page to 20 friends I get free chicken? Is that right? Sounds too good to be true!