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The Larkware 1000 Contest
by Mike Gunderloy
Monday, July 3, 2006
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Yes, it's time to kick off a new Larkware contest. This time, it's actually more
of a sweepstakes. You see, I'm celebrating, and I'd like as many of you as possible
to celebrate with me. And the reason for celebration is simple: The Daily Grind
#1000 is due to be
published in late October. That's quite a milestone for any weblog.
If I could, I'd hold a big party and invite you all over. But I'm way out here in
the Palouse, and none of you would come visit if I did. So, I'm going to celebrate (with
the help of the contest sponsors) by giving stuff away instead.
Contest Rules
There are two ways that you can enter the contest:
- At the top of the
Larkware home page you'll
see the new "tell a friend" feature. Every time you refer someone
to the site using this feature, your own e-mail address will be entered in a prize drawing that will
be conducted when I publish #1000.
- You can also enter by nominating a .NET-related weblog entry on someone else's weblog that you
think is especially useful. If you enter this way, both you and the weblog author
will be entered in the drawing. To enter by nominating a weblog entry,
e-mail me with the URL of the entry that you think deserves wider recognition.
E-mail addresses collected for the contest will not be shared or used for any other
purpose beyond awarding prizes.
Contest Sponsors
SpreadsheetGear for .NET 2006
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- Advanced reporting
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What's included in Syncfusion Essential Studio 4.2?
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based actions.
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CodeIt.Once will perform these operations for you in the a matter of seconds while keeping the source code syntactically correct and compilable.
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The Digipede Network - Grid Computing for Windows
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The Digipede Network
is a grid computing solution that delivers dramatically improved
performance and scalability for real-world applications. Built entirely on the .NET
platform, it is radically easier to learn and use than other grid computing solutions.
You can write grid-enabled applications for the Digipede Network with the critically acclaimed
Digipede Framework SDK.
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Grid computing just got easy.
The Digipede Framework SDK lets you add the power of grid computing to any application � with
as few as 20 lines of new code. The API supports distributed execution of .NET
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Try the free, fully functional
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- Improve application performance and scalability
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- Focus on your core competencies
- Reduce development time
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Prizes
And now for the part you've been waiting for...the prizes. The Grand Prize, First
Prize, and Third Prize winners will be chosen by random drawing among everyone who
entered by telling a friend about the site or by nominating a weblog entry. The
Second Prize winner will be chosen by a reader poll in October, voting on the nominated
weblog entries.
Grand Prize
First Prize
Second Prize
Third Prize
Software Prize List
All told, we've got over $21,000 in prizes to give away. So get busy entering!
Mike Gunderloy is
the editor of Larkware, the daily .NET newspaper of record.
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