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Free Book Redux

Noel Rappin, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 1:38 pm

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A couple of weeks ago, I tried to give away some copies of my book Professional Ruby On Rails. I managed to give a way five copies of the book at RailsConf itself, and also planned to give away copies to commenters on this blog.

I'm taking a second shot at the book giveaway on the blog -- most people who commented on the post didn't have any obvious way to for me to contact them if they way. Such an overwhelming number of people didn't leave contact information that I decided I must have been unclear and the fairest thing to do would be try again.

UPDATE: I now realize that many of you probably entered your email in the web form where it says "this will never be published" -- I didn't see that information for the comments the first time around, but I think that the setup has been changed and I am seeing them now -- that's a perfectly valid way to enter. However, since I didn't see that information for the first batch of entries, I still think the fairest thing to do is start over.

So here goes. I'm going to try to be more explicit with the rules.

  1. I am giving away two books.
  2. To enter, leave a comment to this blog post. The comment must make it clear how I can reach you via email (a URL to your blog is fine if your email address is easily findable there). Entering your email on the comment form should be okay.
  3. Next Friday, June 20th, I will go to random.org and start generating random numbers. The first two matching comments that have email addresses that I can use will win.

Thanks to everybody who left a comment the first time around -- I'm sorry to make you do this again.

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Comments: 102 so far

  1. Email address is attached to this comment!

    Thanks for the second chance!

    Comment by Andrew Herron, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:10 pm

  2. To win this free book
    jm at grok computers
    dot com or dot net

    Comment by Josh Matthews, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:11 pm

  3. GO ON!

    Comment by raminious, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:18 pm

  4. Email address is attached to this comment!

    Looking forward to read it ;)

    Comment by Simon Menke, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:18 pm

  5. Glad to have a second chance as well.

    Comment by Mark Bates, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:21 pm

  6. Thanks for re-running the give-away.

    Comment by George Anderson, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:25 pm

  7. My email’s attached. I’d love a chance to read through this book.

    Comment by Christopher Redinger, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:30 pm

  8. I would love another shot at this!

    Thanks for offering up the book.

    allen

    Comment by Allen Fisher, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:31 pm

  9. I’m back for the second round (crossing my fingers).

    Comment by Karl Smith, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:40 pm

  10. Hi,
    I would like this book to be the next in my library… :)

    Thanks.
    Nicolas.

    Comment by Nicolas Blanco, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:43 pm

  11. free books are good :)

    Comment by Ryan Walker, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:45 pm

  12. A second chance, w00t!

    Comment by Jon Moses, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:45 pm

  13. My email’s attached

    Comment by Russell Christopher, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:48 pm

  14. Email attached to comment … *crossing fingers*

    Comment by Mark Lewis, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:49 pm

  15. I’d love to have this book.

    Comment by Mandrake, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:53 pm

  16. I’d like to win this book :-)

    Comment by Dmytro Shteflyuk, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:56 pm

  17. Thanks for offering up the book.

    Comment by Marcin Ciunelis, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:58 pm

  18. Here’s to hopin (I need all the help I can get!)

    Thanks for offering the giveaway

    Comment by Chris Rohde, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 2:59 pm

  19. yay! New books are always good.

    tgourley [at] gmail [dot] com

    Comment by Tim Gourley, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 3:09 pm

  20. Glad to hear about the second chance, especially since I didn’t get out to Railsconf this year!

    - Jared

    Comment by Jared Haworth, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 3:12 pm

  21. I understand it´s a great book. Thanks for the giveaway.

    Comment by Thomas Boehm, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 3:28 pm

  22. I would love a free copy… :)

    Thanks!

    Comment by Robby Colvin, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 3:29 pm

  23. Email attached. Thanks for the opportunity!

    Comment by Craig Mason, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 3:30 pm

  24. I wanna book! I wanna book!

    Comment by Ben Fulton, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 3:59 pm

  25. Well, let’s try ;-)
    Thanks for the competition ))

    mail is - kavu13(et)gmail.com
    et) == @ # => true
    =)

    Comment by Kavu, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 4:03 pm

  26. Let’s try it…

    Email: h3rald -at- h3rald -dot- com

    Comment by Fabio Cevasco, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 4:18 pm

  27. I’d certainly like to read your book. The freer the better.

    Comment by Michael Gee, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 4:37 pm

  28. I’d very much enjoy a copy of your book.

    Comment by James, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 4:39 pm

  29. P(hit me)

    Comment by Faisal, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 4:40 pm

  30. I’m in for a free copy please (again). Thanks, too, for the opportunity! E-mail address in the required comment e-mail address field.

    Comment by JT, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 4:52 pm

  31. Looking forward to see what the book has to offer.

    Comment by Brett Stauner, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 5:12 pm

  32. Ruby books :D

    Comment by Ruby fan, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 5:13 pm

  33. Thanks for the books.

    Comment by carakan, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 5:15 pm

  34. Count me in. :)

    Comment by Zoran Rilak, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 5:20 pm

  35. What a lucky day, today’s my birthday :)
    Crossing fingers !

    Comment by Gravis60, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 6:05 pm

  36. Thanks for the giveaway!

    Comment by rich, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 6:35 pm

  37. I’d appreciate a book please :)

    Comment by Chris Lloyd, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 6:40 pm

  38. Love free books!

    Comment by Ron Green, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 7:07 pm

  39. Email address is attached!

    Comment by Isaac, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 7:09 pm

  40. c’mon, big money no whammies!

    Comment by Richard Finegan, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 7:17 pm

  41. Doing this second time! :) Thanks!

    andy at andygoh dot net

    Comment by Andy, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 7:45 pm

  42. Win or lose, thanks for doing this giveaway. :)

    Comment by Chris Papadopoulos, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 8:03 pm

  43. Thanks for the potential gift!

    Comment by krusty, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 8:24 pm

  44. I’m in!

    Comment by Samuel Santos, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 8:33 pm

  45. Books are friends not food.

    cracell AT gmail com

    Comment by Eric Cranston, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 9:16 pm

  46. Thanks for the re-do. :)

    Comment by Sean Hussey, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 9:26 pm

  47. E-mail is attached to this comment. Thanks for the re-do. I didn’t catch it the first time around, so the blunder in question is to my benefit. :D

    Comment by Crash Moriarty, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 9:44 pm

  48. Random number generators always give 40 as the first number. :D

    Comment by Abi, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 9:46 pm

  49. Hi Mr. Rappin,

    I’m a fresh-grad interested to learn Ruby on Rails after coding in Java for a while (school + internship). It’ll be great if I could have the free book.

    Thanks a lot,
    Edwin

    Comment by Edwin, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 10:47 pm

  50. yey..free books

    Comment by e12win, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 11:49 pm

  51. E-mail & website published.

    Comment by Matthew Williams, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 11:55 pm

  52. The book looks really cool — hope I win! patrick.schless (a) gmail (d) com

    Comment by Patrick, Friday, June 13, 2008 @ 11:58 pm

  53. “Big money, big money, no wammies, STOP!”

    Comment by Jim Jones, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 1:36 am

  54. Good idea! ;-)

    vidmantas.k at gmail dot com

    Comment by Vidmantas, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 2:00 am

  55. Email attached with this comment.

    Thanks!

    Comment by Fadhli Rahim, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 2:31 am

  56. Looks like a great rails book. Hope I win. Email attached.

    Comment by Mats, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 3:38 am

  57. Aha! 42 I must be in with a shot

    Comment by Adam, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 5:25 am

  58. I would love to have this book!

    Comment by Rasa, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 6:18 am

  59. Thanks for the giveaway!

    Comment by is, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 7:08 am

  60. I’m still interested!

    Comment by Doug R., Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 8:09 am

  61. Cool!

    My email’s at my weblog, at “About Me” widget.

    Best regards

    Comment by Davi Vidal, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 8:12 am

  62. good luck!

    Comment by david, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 8:14 am

  63. a book would be nice.

    Comment by pedro, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 9:31 am

  64. Yes, please. My email address is attached, and my web-link goes to my contact page with my info. Thanks.

    Comment by Grant Neufeld, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 12:01 pm

  65. Lucky number :D

    Email in comment or https://umsoknir.is/umsokn/1SJcaMP0X1/

    Comment by Fannar, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 12:42 pm

  66. Who’d want to win a Wrox book?

    Comment by experienced reader, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 1:35 pm

  67. A free book would be great :)

    Comment by Patrick, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 8:32 pm

  68. Thanks for doing this! E-mail attached.

    Comment by Mike W, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 9:38 pm

  69. hoping for the book!

    Comment by Richard Finegan, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 9:52 pm

  70. Awesome! I hope to win it :)

    Comment by Ren Patel, Saturday, June 14, 2008 @ 11:39 pm

  71. Didn’t try on the first round…let’s see how it goes! :)

    Comment by Michele, Sunday, June 15, 2008 @ 4:13 am

  72. WOW - Free ruby book just perfect for my new ruby lesson.

    I could be contacted 3duniv@gmail.com.

    Comment by phon xay, Sunday, June 15, 2008 @ 4:14 am

  73. Crossed fingers :)

    Comment by Simone, Sunday, June 15, 2008 @ 4:20 am

  74. Hey, I’ll try again. Email address attached.

    Comment by john, Sunday, June 15, 2008 @ 6:41 am

  75. You can’t win if you don’t play, as they say.

    Comment by MilesZS, Sunday, June 15, 2008 @ 12:52 pm

  76. fingers crossed!

    Comment by Nick, Sunday, June 15, 2008 @ 2:30 pm

  77. Me too!

    Comment by Simon Wilkins, Sunday, June 15, 2008 @ 3:32 pm

  78. This will be tough… I should spam with more comments ;)

    Comment by Soleone, Sunday, June 15, 2008 @ 3:40 pm

  79. Email attached with this comment.
    I love free books ;)

    Comment by chris, Sunday, June 15, 2008 @ 5:01 pm

  80. Oh well … in to win :-) shane dot mingins at gmail dot com

    Comment by Shane, Sunday, June 15, 2008 @ 5:02 pm

  81. Hey guy, I am interested in this book, count me in!

    Comment by Thiago Silvino, Sunday, June 15, 2008 @ 5:19 pm

  82. Books! I need more BOOKS!

    Comment by pixelnate, Sunday, June 15, 2008 @ 10:57 pm

  83. I’m game. Email attached!

    Comment by Nik, Sunday, June 15, 2008 @ 11:32 pm

  84. Yes, books are good. Me likes books. More books to me, please. :-)

    Comment by Emmanuel Oga, Sunday, June 15, 2008 @ 11:52 pm

  85. Can’t wait to read it!
    My email address is attached.

    Comment by Hatem, Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 1:17 am

  86. That’s a nice idea !

    Comment by Cyrille Stepanyk, Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 3:56 am

  87. Worth a shot, I suppose. Email address is lastname dot firstname at gmail dot com

    Comment by Blair Miller, Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 8:39 am

  88. Count me please.

    Comment by Guoliang, Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 9:47 am

  89. email attached!

    Comment by Jose Alvarez, Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 10:08 am

  90. book me!

    Comment by Myke Cameron, Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 10:36 am

  91. Love & Peace

    Comment by Hari Rajagopal, Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 11:59 am

  92. Email address attached.

    Comment by Dumma Kano, Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 3:35 pm

  93. Would love a copy please

    It will help move from java to ruby

    Comment by Josh Kalderimis, Monday, June 16, 2008 @ 7:00 pm

  94. I look forward to reading your book - Thanks! Cheers, Simon

    Comment by Simon Chiu, Tuesday, June 17, 2008 @ 6:08 am

  95. (my last name) at sitespark.com, or it’s in the email field or on my website.

    Thanks!

    Comment by Matt Bauer, Tuesday, June 17, 2008 @ 10:17 am

  96. Can you send it to Brazil? :)
    Trying to buy it from amazom.

    Here’s my last chance.

    Cheers from Brazilian Rails Community.

    Comment by Matias, Wednesday, June 18, 2008 @ 8:41 am

  97. thanks!

    Comment by matt, Wednesday, June 18, 2008 @ 2:02 pm

  98. I would very much like to win a copy of your book. Thanks! My email address is attached to my comment.

    Tom

    Comment by Tom Malone, Thursday, June 19, 2008 @ 12:18 pm

  99. e-mail address attached to this comment

    Comment by Ashish Dixit, Friday, June 20, 2008 @ 8:29 am

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  101. gr8 work …thanks for the give away

    Comment by rizwan, Monday, August 4, 2008 @ 2:58 pm

  102. Can I have also a copy? I’ve been waiting for such chance to get free Rails book but i always unlucky enough. I always get late :(

    Comment by Razel, Tuesday, September 30, 2008 @ 4:45 pm

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