Category: Giveaways

Scott Hildreth, wearing his YAPC::NA::Madison shirt, shows off the framed and signed Programming Perl cover he won from this blog. I never keep this swag for very long, so you might get some too if you follow along. Continue reading “Scott Hildreth wins the Programming Perl cover”

A framed cover of Programming Perl showed up in my mail today. Our publisher, O’Reilly Media, has been doling these out to authors in the past couple of months. Tom got one about a week ago and I was slightly jealous, even though I already have one for Learning Perl. So what am I going to do with this one? I’ve signed the front glass, not wanting to disturb the very nice framing job, which also means that if you hate my signature, a little rubbing alcohol should remove that easily. Continue reading “Win a framed cover of Programming Perl”

Just when I’d mailed off my last Programming Perl, O’Reilly sends me five more. I think I was suppose to get these before YAPC, but it’s too late for that. Don’t they realize these are big, heavy books? Now I have to figure out how to give away five of these. Although we are arranging for the second printing, having sold out the first, these are still the first printing. Continue reading “More Programming Perls to give away”

I had eight copies of Programming Perl to giveaway. They were making a mess out of my office and I wanted to get rid of them. I could have just stood on the street handing them out to morning commuters, but who wants to juggle a four pound book and a coffee at the same time? I challenged people to use Twitter to give me a reason they deserved one of these copies. There’s are the winners: Continue reading “Programming Perl giveway winners”